May 25, 2021
The fake news law was also invoked to issue a correction direction to TOC and other sites that repeated the claims.
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SINGAPORE - The police have released two clips of body-worn camera footage from an incident in Yishun involving officers who had engaged an elderly woman who was not wearing a mask in public.
The footage shows a police officer buying the woman a packet of food from a nearby stall and not taunting or reprimanding her, the Singapore Police Force said in a statement on Tuesday evening (May 25).
Instead, the officer was telling the woman s domestic helper to remind her to wear a mask when she is out, the police said.
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POFMA Office instructed to issue correction directions to several parties over posts alleging police bullying
The police said social media posts circulating online alleging police officers bullying an elderly woman who was not wearing a mask were not true. (Photo: Instagram/Nicholas Zayden Tan)
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SINGAPORE: The Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) Office has been instructed to issue correction directions to several parties, including an Instagram user, Singapore Uncensored and The Online Citizen Asia over falsehoods alleging police bullying.
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Singapore opposition politician crowdfunds US$98,840 to pay PM Lee Hsien Loong in defamation case Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Photo: Reuters
A lawyer for the Singapore opposition politician ordered by a court to pay Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong S$133,000 (US$98,840) for defamation said he had raised enough cash from donations to fully cover damages.
Leong Sze Hian of the Peoples Voice Party was ordered on March 24 to pay S$133,000 to Lee for posting a link to a Malaysian news site that alleged the city state s leader had helped launder 1Malaysia Development Berhad funds.
Since then more than 2,000 people had donated to a crowdfunding campaign on social media to raise the full amount, Lim Tean, Leong s lawyer, said in a Facebook post on Monday.
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Lawyer M Ravi. (File photo: TODAY)
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SINGAPORE: Lawyer Ravi Madasamy, better known as M Ravi, was charged in court on Wednesday (Dec 16) with criminal defamation of the Law Minister.
Ravi, 51, is accused of defaming Minister of Law K Shanmugam by citing an allegation that Mr Shanmugam calls the (shots) and (controls) as well as wields influence over the Chief Justice.
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The case was heard only briefly on Wednesday, with Ravi telling the judge that he had already made representations the week before.