Singapore Update: Dissidents Go Directly to Jail

As expected, Singaporean Democratic Party leader Chee Soon Juan and his sister, Chee Siok Chin, said Wednesday that they would go to jail for contempt of court because they could not afford an appeal of the sentence, which probably would have been futile anyway.

Chee Siok Chin told Agence France Presse by telephone that “We didn't want to delay the matte…