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Singapore Aims to Cripple a Press Critic

The Online Citizen faces an onslaught of legal and government actions

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John Berthelsen
Sep 15, 2021
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The Online Citizen, one of the few independent news publications in Singapore, appears to be about to be put out of business from at least three different angles after having crossed swords with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

In addition to two government actions against it, the news portal’s editor, Terry Xu, lost a defamation case to Lee on September …

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