OPINION: To try or not: Singapore agonises - Maxwell Coopers

Free Malaysia Today, 10 Aug 2010
It is too early to say what Singapore may just do with the author of the controversial book “Once A Jolly Hangman. Singapore Justice In the Dock”' by Alan Shadrake.
Almost instantaneously a case that attracted unprecedented global publicity has had its publicity run ended as soon as it even began.
For observers of the Singapore scene that is not just unusual but absolutely unprecedented for a nanny state which had always prided itself on standing up to detractors; symptomatic as some would say of its typical siege mentality. Full Story