Singapore jails ex-citizen for insulting judge -paper

Reuters, 18 Sep 2008, Koh Gui Qing

SINGAPORE, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Singapore has sentenced a former citizen to three months in jail for insulting a high court judge in his online journal, a local newspaper said on Thursday.

Gopalan Nair, a lawyer who became a U.S. citizen in 2005 after an earlier failed bid to run for Singapore's parliament, had "scandalised...the judiciary and the administration of justice in Singapore", The Straits Times quoted the presiding judge as saying.

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