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Singapore Uses Big Guns on Small 'Threats'

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Jun 30, 2015
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Singapore this week is in the middle of two controversial cases that demonstrate that despite the March 22 passing of Lee Kuan Yew, the patriarch and founder of modern Singapore, the government has lost none of its appetite for using the legal system to bring down those it considers enemies.

One of the cases involves a 16-year-old who made an obscenity-f…

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