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SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 2017 INTERNATIONAL Singaporean teen dissident granted US asylum SINGAPORE: A Singaporean teenager in Singapore,” the judge said in the deci- regards as essential for stability in a who was jailed twice after insulting the sion, a copy of which was seen by AFP. volatile region. island’s late leader Lee Kuan Yew and reli- The judge said evidence presented Several government critics have gious groups has been granted political during the hearing “demonstrates sought refuge overseas, including in the asylum in the United States, his US lawyer Singapore’s persecution of Yee was a pre- United States and Britain, among them said yesterday. Amos Yee, 18, shocked text to silence his political opinions criti- Gopalan Nair who was granted US asy- Singaporeans in March 2015 after posting cal of the Singapore government”. The lum for political persecution in the 1990s an expletive-laden video attacking Lee as US Department of Homeland Security and now holds American citizenship. Yee, the founding prime minister’s death trig- had opposed Yee’s asylum application, a filmmaker-turned-activist, was gered a massive outpouring of grief in the saying he was legally prosecuted by the detained by US authorities after he city-state. He was jailed for four weeks for Singapore government. It now has 30 arrived in Chicago in December. hurting the religious feelings of Christians days to appeal the judge’s decision. In a Speaking by telephone from Maryland, and posting an obscene image as part of statement yesterday, Singapore’s home lawyer Grossman, who has represented his attacks on Lee-whose son Lee Hsien affairs ministry, which looks after internal Yee for free, said the US government “has Loong is now the prime minister-but security, said Yee had engaged in “hate the right to appeal this decision” within served 50 days including penalties for vio- speech” but noted that such rhetoric is the next 30 days.
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