Foreign interference 'far greater risk' than rogue government abusing power: Shanmugam

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'People in Singapore won't stand for a rogue government,' said the minister during the parliamentary debate on the controversial Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Bill

SINGAPORE — Rogue foreign interference is a "far greater risk" than that of a rogue government abusing its power, said Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam, as Parliament debated the controversial Foreign Interference Bill on Monday .

The Bill will not apply to Singaporeans expressing their own views on political matters, unless they are agents of a foreign principal, said the Ministry of Home Affairs. For example, the law in its current form allows for appeals against FICA directives to be made to a tribunal appointed by the President and chaired by a High Court judge. Its decisions are final and cannot be challenged in court. The WP proposed that appeals to the minister, and then the High Court, be allowed.

 

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