Censorship in Singapore

Date: 
22 July 2010
Teaser: 

In a space of a month, Singapore authorities caused a major uproar when they banned a film of an ex-political prisoner and arrested a British author who wrote a book about the death penalty in Singapore.

On 12 July 2010, the Media Development Authority announced its decision to ban a film (starting from 14 July 2010) depicting Dr Lim Hock Siew speaking publicly on his experience being detained under the Internal Security Act. The film was filmed by Director Martyn See. Mr See was also asked to remove the film from YouTube. You can read the transcripts of the film here.

Source: 
Global Voices Online

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