Singapore has sentenced a former citizen to three months in jail for insulting a high court judge in his online journal.
Gopal Nair, a lawyer who became a US citizen in 2005 afteran earlier failed bid to run for Singapore's parliament had "scandalised....the judiciary and the administration of justice in Singapore", The Strait Times quoted the presiding judge as saying.
"I'm going to serve the sentence," Gopalan Nair, 58, said, adding he has no regrets.
"I only wrote a blog. I didn't go out and kill anybody."
In his blog, Nair criticised a legal hearing at which Singapore founding father Lee Kuan Yew and his son, Prime Minister Lee Hsein Loong, testified in a defamation case they filed against an oppostion party.
Nair was charged with insulting justice Belinda Ang Saw Ean by saying she was "prostituting herself during the enitre proceedings, by being nothing more than an employee of Mr.Lee Kuan Yew and his son and carrying out their orders," a court document said.
-source: The Star, 19.08.2008
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