SINGAPORE, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- A Singapore engineer was sentenced to two months in jail on Friday for an online posting carrying an incitement to violence after the prosecution appealed.
Gary Yue Mun Yew, 36, an engineer, had initially been fined 6, 000 Singapore dollars (5,000 U.S. dollars) by a district court in March this year for posting a comment on the Facebook wall of sociopolitical platform Temasek Review two years ago.
In his posting was a link to a YouTube video depicting the assassination of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat with the comment, which says that "we should re-enact" a live version the assassination at Singapore's National Day Parade. Full story
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