Singapore says WSJ waging campaign against judges

Reuters, 24 Sep 2008, Melanie Lee

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's attorney general accused the Wall Street Journal of waging a campaign to tarnish the country's judiciary, but said he is not pushing for the harshest sentence in contempt proceedings against the newspaper.

Singapore's attorney general brought contempt proceedings against the publisher of the Asian edition of the Wall Street Journal and two of its editors earlier this month.

"I'm not here to punish the Wall Street Journal," Attorney-General Walter Woon told Reuters in an interview this week.

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