SINGAPORE — Charles Yeo Yao Hui, the 31-year-old chairman of Reform Party, was charged in court on Wednesday (Jan 19) with wounding the religious feelings of the Christian community and harassing a policeman in social media posts.
Yeo, who is also a lawyer at Whitefield Law Corporation, faces one charge of uttering words with deliberate intent to wound the religious feelings of another under the Penal Code and two other charges of attempting to do so.
One of his lawyers, Mr Ashwin Ganapathy from IRB Law, told the court on Wednesday that he intends to dispute these charges.
Yeo was also charged with three counts of making abusive, threatening or insulting communication towards a public servant under the Protection from Harassment Act.
Separately, he was one of two people arrested last week over allegedly committing criminal breach of trust and forgery in relation to his law firm clients. He has not yet been charged over these allegations.
Yeo is accused of making remarks on his Instagram and Facebook accounts to wound the feelings of the Christian community on three occasions — Nov 13 in 2020 as well as on Feb 23 and 26 in 2021.
More at https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...ounding-religious-feelings-christians-1794101
