Deputy Senior State Counsel Hema Subramaniam said in court that Malaysia-based journalist Alan Shadrake, 76, had showed "deliberate intent to damage" the integrity of the Singapore judiciary, and a jail sentence was necessary to "send a signal that such egregious conduct will not be tolerated by our courts." Full story
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