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  • Nation
  • Sunday, 17 Mar 2019

Fighting for rights: ‘The true test of a mature democracy is how ... the weak are protected in the face of the strong’. — ART CHEN/The Star

THE investigation of the organisers of the Women’s Day march for sedition and illegal assembly is the last thing I thought I would see under the present government.

It is a betrayal of the people who voted in this government believing that there would be respect for fundamental liberties, including the right to assemble peacefully.

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