in front of a government building in May last year to express concern over the Covid-19 public health situation and not to publicise a cause, his lawyer argued in court on Monday .
The court heard that Goh held up a placard that read in capital letters: “Please ban all flights from India we are not racist! Just being cautious." He did so at three spots in the vicinity of the ICA and later posted photos of this on his Facebook page. After the authorities began investigating him, Goh was said to have refused to sign a police statement he made at the Bedok Police Division headquarters on May 11. This is the basis for the second charge that he is facing.Singapore Management University law student Lee Ryan testified that he filed a police report after he came across Goh’s post on his Facebook feed on May 1.
He told the court that he had known Goh for about five years, and they had met every now and then but stopped meeting each other after May 1 last year, when he had helped Goh to take the photos at the latter’s request. Mr Lim described the charge sheet as “defective”, “bad” and “unfair to the accused” as it did not state the precise spot Goh had conducted an unlawful public “assembly”, noting that the charge did not use the plural form"assemblies". The officer disagreed.
Sad but too many forgot Singapore is not a democracy.
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