Human Rights Watch calls on Singapore to relax free speech, assembly laws


  • World
  • Wednesday, 13 Dec 2017

FILE PHOTO: Li Shengwu, nephew of Singapore's prime minister, is seen in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. August 12, 2017. REUTERS/Tim McLaughlin/File Photo

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The Singapore government's laws limiting critical speech and peaceful assembly are overly broad and make the country a repressive place severely restricting what can be said and published, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.

In its first wide-ranging report on Singapore in 12 years, the group called on the government to amend or repeal laws and rules that restrict speech and assembly and drop charges against individuals for peaceful speech and assembly.

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