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Online posting case: Appeal for jail term [h=2]Prosecution says offender intended to incite violence, so fine not enough[/h]
Published on Jun 30, 2012
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Gary Yue was fined $6,000 for an online posting that the prosecution says was intended to incite violence. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
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<!--start of story text-->The prosecution on Friday appealed to the High Court to jail a man who had put up an online posting carrying an incitement to violence.
In the first case of its kind, Gary Yue Mun Yew, 36, a former engineer, had been fined $6,000 in March. He had posted a comment on the Facebook wall of sociopolitical platform Temasek Review on National Day in 2010.
In his posting was a link to a YouTube video depicting the assassination of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat with the comment 'We should re-enact a live version of this on our grandstand during our national's (sic) parade!!!!!!'.
A district judge had found Yue guilty and fined him even though the prosecutors had pressed for a jail term. The judge concluded that Yue's intention was to seek attention rather than incite violence when he made the posting.
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<!--start of story text-->The prosecution on Friday appealed to the High Court to jail a man who had put up an online posting carrying an incitement to violence.
In the first case of its kind, Gary Yue Mun Yew, 36, a former engineer, had been fined $6,000 in March. He had posted a comment on the Facebook wall of sociopolitical platform Temasek Review on National Day in 2010.
In his posting was a link to a YouTube video depicting the assassination of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat with the comment 'We should re-enact a live version of this on our grandstand during our national's (sic) parade!!!!!!'.
A district judge had found Yue guilty and fined him even though the prosecutors had pressed for a jail term. The judge concluded that Yue's intention was to seek attention rather than incite violence when he made the posting.
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