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Nov 22, 2018
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Singapore’s most prominent independent news site, The Online Citizen, a “community blogging platform,” has been closed and its computers have been confiscated after it printed a letter to the editor from Willy Sum, an otherwise-unidentified writer, accusing the government of corruption.

Terry Xu, the editor (above), was taken in for questioning by police…

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