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US blogger charged with insulting Singapore judge
Jun 16 03:47 AM US/Eastern

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Blogger Gopalan Nair: ‘Maybe They Should Grow Up’

A US citizen was charged Monday with insulting a Singapore judge in his blog by saying she was "prostituting herself", a court document said.

In the blog, Gopalan Nair criticised a recent legal hearing at which Singapore founding father Lee Kuan Yew and his son, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, testified in a defamation case they filed against an opposition party.

Nair, 58, is charged with insulting Justice Belinda Ang Saw Ean by saying she was "prostituting herself during the entire proceedings, by being nothing more than an employee of Mr Lee Kuan Yew and his son and carrying out their orders," a court document said.

Justice Ang presided over the hearing.

The latest Penal Code charge replaces an initial charge which alleged Nair sent the comments in an email, his lawyer Chia Ti Lik said.

If convicted, Nair, a former Singaporean lawyer now based in California, faces up to one year in prison and a 5,000 dollar (3,630 US) fine.

Last Thursday, another charge accused him of calling Singapore judges "corrupt."

Nair is free on bail in Singapore and has vowed to dispute the charges.

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Let me say right here for the record that Justice Belinda Ang Saw Ean can go straight to hell.

This is the United States of America and I am an American citizen. I am protected by the US Constitution and free to exercise my rights of free speech.

I feel that Belinda Ang Saw Ean is a threat to the freedoms and sovereignty of the United States of America. I will speak freely and gladly insult this judge without fear of legal retributions.

If this is how judges in Singapore are allowed to conduct themselves then I think we need to generate some special laws here in the NC condemning their assault of freedoms and human rights in America.


William Gheen
www.alipac.us

And this man is probably accurate in his comments toward her.

No Singapore vacation for me!

I feel for the people of their country. But US citizens should not be tried for free speech in other nations.