Asia Sentinel, 18 Mar 2009
This time the Lee family's personal fief reaches all the way to New York
The Singapore government has again gone after the Wall Street Journal, this time charging Melanie Kirkpatrick, a longtime New York-based editorial page editor, over two editorials and a letter to the editor that ran in the paper’s Asian edition last July and August.
Being charged in the Singapore courts is tantamount to being convicted. As far as can be determined, the lawsuit-happy government and the family of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew have never lost a case against the press in its own courts. The Singapore attorney general said the submissions to the newspaper were guilty of "scandalizing the court" by impugning its integrity, impartiality and independence
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