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Singapore’s proactive approach in dealing with racial and religious division has made it an outlier, a cabinet minister has said, but observers warn that convincing the city’s youth to accept the curbing of free speech in the name of social peace will be increasingly difficult.
Two Singaporeans have been issued restriction orders under the Internal Security Act (ISA) after being found to have been separately radicalised by online content on the Gaza war, with one of the cases involving a 14-year-old marking the youngest-ever individual to be dealt with under the ISA.
Lee Hsien Yang, the estranged younger brother of the former prime minister, made defamatory allegations against the two ministers “of the gravest kind”, wrote Justice Goh Yihan.
Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam on Friday criticised a commentary by British publication The Economist, which he said could not “resist sneering” at Singapore’s political leadership handover.
The legislation applies to those above 21 who are convicted of crimes such as culpable homicide, rape and sex with minors, who are deemed to be at risk of reoffending upon release.
Last year was unprecedented in independent Singapore’s history. Difficulties have arisen in past years for the government, the economy, specific sections of the Singaporean populace or in terms of escalating repression, but 2023 encompassed all the above. Recovering Singapore’s reputation for clean governance will not be an easy task.