Singapore’s Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) have sent out letters demanding apologies from several websites after criticism was made of the court’s decision to sentence Yuan Zhenghua to 25 months in jail.
In 2012, Yuan hijacked a taxi at Changi Airport and crashed it, killing an airport worker. He was given his sentence on Monday.
Comments then appeared on websites and Facebook pages questioning the sentence. Many felt that it was too lenient. Others claimed that the courts had been soft on Yuan because he was a Chinese national, and that a Singaporean would have received a harsher sentence.
“These and similar comments pose a real risk that public confidence in the administration of justice would be undermined,” a spokesman of the AGC told AFP. Full story
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