SINGAPORE: Singapore’s High Court convicted a prominent dissident blogger of contempt of court for “scandalising” the judiciary in an online commentary, an offence punishable by jail time.
Alex Au, 61, was found guilty of insulting the judiciary in an Oct 5, 2013 post that insinuated that hearing dates on a constitutional challenge to a law criminalising gay sex between men had been rigged.
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