This handout photograph made available on Dec 17, 2013 by the Straits Times shows an officer (L) sitting next to arrested foreign workers as they arrive in a police van at the Subordinate courts in Singapore. - AFP
SINGAPORE (AFP) - Singapore said Tuesday it will deport 53 South Asian workers and pursue criminal charges against 28 others for their involvement in the city-state's first riot in more than four decades.
"We have taken strong and decisive action to charge, and to repatriate those who took part in the riot to send a strong signal that we will not tolerate actions by anyone which threaten law and order in Singapore," Home Affairs Minister Teo Chee Hean told a news conference.
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