Amos Yee

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Singapore blogger Roy Ngerng addresses a crowd protesting website regulations in June 2013. The blogger faces damages in a defamation suit brought against him by the prime minister. (Reuters/Edgar Su)

Blogger in Singapore faces financial ruin following defamation suit

“If we want our freedom, we have to fight for it,” wrote blogger Roy Ngerng last year after he was sued for defamation by Singapore’s prime minister. The case was sparked by a blog post in which Ngerng allegedly suggested Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had misappropriated funds in a state pension system. In November,…

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Amos Yee, a teenage blogger in Singapore, was arrested on Sunday. Here, a still from a video he posted on YouTube in which he criticized Lee Kuan Yew. (YouTube/Boomerang Dog)

Singapore blogger jailed for critical Lee Kuan Yew video

New York, March 30, 2015–The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about the arrest on Sunday of a teenage video blogger in Singapore and calls on authorities to release him immediately.

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