Singapore High Court rejects TOC website’s appeal against Pofma correction direction over alleged police bullying

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SINGAPORE, July 26 — A High Court judge yesterday dismissed an appeal filed by now-defunct sociopolitical site The Online Citizen (TOC) against a correction direction issued...

SINGAPORE, July 26 — A High Court judge yesterday dismissed an appeal filed by now-defunct sociopolitical site The Online Citizen against a correction direction issued under Singapore’s fake news law, since the website was already deactivated.

TOC re-published the series of Instagram Stories, which stay on a user’s account for only 24 hours, on its Facebook, YouTube and Instagram pages. TOC then took to the High Court to appeal against Shanmugam’s decision to reject their cancellation application.On Monday, Justice Abdullah said that the appeal should be dismissed on the sole ground that its outcome was moot, given that TOC’s websites and social media accounts are not operational now.TOC’s lawyer Lim Tean had maintained that they still wished to pursue the appeal as a matter of principle.

In response, three state counsels who appeared for the Attorney-General — representing the Ministry of Home Affairs — argued that it was correctly issued and TOC’s reporting did not make it any less of a statement of fact.

 

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