{"id":25063,"date":"2020-11-24T15:27:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T06:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/24\/singapore-smiley-face-activist-in-one-man-protest-charged-with-unlawful-assembly"},"modified":"2020-11-24T15:27:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T06:27:03","slug":"singapore-smiley-face-activist-in-one-man-protest-charged-with-unlawful-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25063","title":{"rendered":"Singapore &#8216;smiley-face&#8217; activist in one-man protest charged with unlawful assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jolovan Wham faces large fines over incident in which he briefly held a smiley face sign outside a police station<\/p>\n<p>An activist who held a sign bearing a smiley face as part of a one-man protest in Singapore has been charged with unlawful assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Jolovan Wham said he held the cardboard sign near to a police station for just a few seconds in order to take a photo in March. The brief, lonely protest was designed to show support for two climate activists who were apparently questioned by police over a similar protest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/24\/singapore-smiley-face-activist-in-one-man-protest-charged-with-unlawful-assembly\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jolovan Wham faces large fines over incident in which he briefly held a smiley face sign outside a police stationAn activist who held a sign bearing a smiley face as part of a one-man protest in Singapore has been charged with unlawful assembly.Jolovan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,783],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-singapore"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25064,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25063\/revisions\/25064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}