{"id":37890,"date":"2021-10-11T09:58:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T00:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/11\/singapores-new-foreign-interference-law-leaves-journalists-like-me-with-an-impossible-puzzle"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:58:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T00:58:42","slug":"singapores-new-foreign-interference-law-leaves-journalists-like-me-with-an-impossible-puzzle-kirsten-han","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37890","title":{"rendered":"Singapore\u2019s new \u2018foreign interference\u2019 law leaves journalists like me with an impossible puzzle |  Kirsten Han"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Singapore government is now free to act on suspicions of foreign influence, and their targets will struggle to clear their names<\/p>\n<p>Singapore\u2019s parliament has passed a controversial anti-foreign interference bill, just three weeks after its first reading on 13 September.<\/p>\n<p>It was only to be expected that the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Bill, or Fica, would pass \u2013 the ruling People\u2019s Action Party has had a supermajority in parliament for decades, allowing them to push whatever legislation they want through the House. But the concerns that activists, journalists, academics and legal practitioners had before the bill\u2019s passage persist.<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Han is a freelance journalist who runs the newsletter We, The Citizens, covering Singapore from a rights-based perspective.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/11\/singapores-new-foreign-interference-law-leaves-journalists-like-me-with-an-impossible-puzzle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Singapore government is now free to act on suspicions of foreign influence, and their targets will struggle to clear their namesSingapore\u2019s parliament has passed a controversial anti-foreign interference bill, just three weeks after its first readi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2633,"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-37890","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\/37890","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\/2633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37891,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37890\/revisions\/37891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}