Singapore: Man who said it was his 'constitutional right' to insult two foreign workers convicted


SINGAPORE, June 14 (The Straits Times/ANN): Two foreign workers were taking shelter from the rain last July when a man berated them with xenophobic insults.

One of the workers recorded a video of Lee Poh Kian's tirade, in which the Singaporean said, among other things: "You enter my country is wrong... This government also illegal. We will get you out."

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