As expected, a three-judge appellate panel has upheld a ruling that the Far Eastern Economic Review defamed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his father, former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, in a 2006 interview with Chee Soon Juan, the long-suffering secretary-general of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party.
The Lees sued editor Hugo Restall and Review Publishing Co. over the article, which described Chee's marathon battles with the Lees and the ruling People's Action Party, and a series of court cases, all won by the government, that left Chee destitute. It quoted him as saying, among other things, that the Singapore government would never change course until the elder Lee was dead.
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