SINGAPORE BLOGGER ARRESTED FOR RACISM
May 29th 2008 14:14
The Straits Times reports that a Singaporean blogger has been arrested for posting a racist rant on his website that stoked an online firestorm.
The 24-year-old was taken into custody on Tuesday evening, said police. They accused him of making posts which “may wound the racial feelings of another person.”. A computer, believed to have been used to make the post, was also seized for investigations.
The case came to the attention of police on Monday after complaints about a virulent online message that described a man whom the author saw sitting on the floor of an MRT train. The post, which was made on March 18, described the man as “smelling like he didn’t showered in years”' and said he was wearing “some really scary dirty clothes.”
On his blog called ‘Sexy Fragrance Prince,’ the blogger has posted an apology.
In 2005, two people were convicted of posting racist remarks on their personal websites. One was jailed for a month and the other was jailed for one day.
Singapore law penalises anyone who “deliberately wounds the religious or racial feelings of another” with up to three years of jail and a fine.
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