Instead of justifying why he should be kicked out, you are resorting to a dose of "tu quoque", that journalists in other countries have it worse so it is OK for the G to kick him out.
With all due respect to John Burton (whose articles on Singapore I have read in the FT with interest), he is lucky not to be one of those Al Jazeera journalists who were recently imprisoned in Egypt for 7 - 10 years.
There are worse places to be a country correspondent.