SINGAPORE - Several activists, an advocacy group and a website have been asked to put up corrections under the law against fake news, over articles and social media posts that contain false statements about the execution of convicted drug trafficker Tangaraju Suppiah.
The Ministry for Home Affairs, which initiated the corrections under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (Pofma), said that “despite the Government’s clarifications and the courts’ clear findings on Tangaraju’s case”, freelance journalist Kirsten Han, lawyer M. Ravi, Mr Andrew Loh, the Transformative Justice Collective (TJC) and The Online Citizen Asia (TOCA), had made false statements about the matter.
These false statements could erode public trust in the Government and the judiciary, the ministry added.
Tangaraju, 46, a Singaporean, was hanged on April 26, 2023, after being convicted in 2018 of abetting the trafficking of 1,017.9g of cannabis, an amount more than twice the capital threshold.
Anti-death penalty activists had campaigned against his hanging, claiming in online articles, interviews and social media posts that he had been convicted unfairly, allegations that the MHA refuted.
On Friday, the MHA took issue with Ms Han’s Facebook posts on April 19, 2023 and April 22, 2023, her “We the Citizens” article published on April 19, 2023, her Twitter post on April 19, 2023, the TJC’s Facebook post on April 23, 2023, Mr Ravi’s Facebook posts on April 20, 2023 and April 27, 2023, TOCA...
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