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Update on Iris Koh’s Court Hearing Today.
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1. A key witness testified that his basic rights as a citizen were blatantly violated when police raided his home and ransacked his car. He further revealed that he was threatened in gangster-like fashion by a senior police officer — told he would be “wrecked” if he refused to comply — and was coerced into fabricating a testimony that implicated Iris Koh in arranging a fake vaccine jab. Out of fear, he signed the police’s narrative.
2. In court today, the public prosecutor pressed him about his earlier statement to “read between the lines,” suggesting it implied Iris Koh was hinting that he could opt for a saline jab instead of the vaccine. His response was unequivocal: “10,000% No.” This directly demolished the prosecution’s insinuation.
3. The witness also declared that he takes his oath in court with utmost seriousness. He explained that, unlike when he was under police intimidation, he now felt secure because the judge had assured him of a direct line of protection. This assurance, he said, gave him the courage to finally reveal the full truth in court — that the police had pressured him into false testimony against Iris Koh.
The Larger Picture: State Power Unmasked.
Here’s the heart of the matter: this is no longer just about Iris Koh. This is about how far the state will go to protect its narrative. When police officers resort to intimidation, threats, and manufactured testimonies, the machinery of justice mutates into a machinery of control.
The irony is thick: the very institutions tasked with upholding justice — the police, the prosecutors — are now implicated in bending truth to fit political convenience.
Singapore’s rulers love to boast about having one of the least corrupt police forces in the world. But when the “truth” has to be coerced out of witnesses at knuckle-duster point, corruption ceases to be about money. It becomes about power, pure and unrestrained.
(The Real Trial)
The courtroom may say The State vs. Iris Koh.
But history will record it differently: The State vs. Its Own People.
Because if Iris Koh can be framed to serve a narrative, then no citizen is safe. Today it is her. Tomorrow it is anyone who dares challenge official orthodoxy.
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1. A key witness testified that his basic rights as a citizen were blatantly violated when police raided his home and ransacked his car. He further revealed that he was threatened in gangster-like fashion by a senior police officer — told he would be “wrecked” if he refused to comply — and was coerced into fabricating a testimony that implicated Iris Koh in arranging a fake vaccine jab. Out of fear, he signed the police’s narrative.
2. In court today, the public prosecutor pressed him about his earlier statement to “read between the lines,” suggesting it implied Iris Koh was hinting that he could opt for a saline jab instead of the vaccine. His response was unequivocal: “10,000% No.” This directly demolished the prosecution’s insinuation.
3. The witness also declared that he takes his oath in court with utmost seriousness. He explained that, unlike when he was under police intimidation, he now felt secure because the judge had assured him of a direct line of protection. This assurance, he said, gave him the courage to finally reveal the full truth in court — that the police had pressured him into false testimony against Iris Koh.
The Larger Picture: State Power Unmasked.
Here’s the heart of the matter: this is no longer just about Iris Koh. This is about how far the state will go to protect its narrative. When police officers resort to intimidation, threats, and manufactured testimonies, the machinery of justice mutates into a machinery of control.
The irony is thick: the very institutions tasked with upholding justice — the police, the prosecutors — are now implicated in bending truth to fit political convenience.
Singapore’s rulers love to boast about having one of the least corrupt police forces in the world. But when the “truth” has to be coerced out of witnesses at knuckle-duster point, corruption ceases to be about money. It becomes about power, pure and unrestrained.
(The Real Trial)
The courtroom may say The State vs. Iris Koh.
But history will record it differently: The State vs. Its Own People.
Because if Iris Koh can be framed to serve a narrative, then no citizen is safe. Today it is her. Tomorrow it is anyone who dares challenge official orthodoxy.
