{"id":43777,"date":"2022-04-22T18:35:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T09:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/22\/singapore-editor-jailed-defamation-corruption-claims-terry-xu-online-citizen"},"modified":"2022-04-22T18:35:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T09:35:59","slug":"singapore-editor-jailed-for-defamation-over-corruption-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43777","title":{"rendered":"Singapore editor jailed for defamation over corruption claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Xu was convicted last year after publishing a letter alleging  \u2018corruption at the highest echelons\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The editor of a now-closed Singaporean news outlet has been jailed for three weeks for defamation over a letter published on the site that alleged corruption among government ministers.<\/p>\n<p>Terry Xu, the former editor of the Online Citizen, was convicted last year for the publication of a letter that said there was \u201ccorruption at the highest echelons\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/22\/singapore-editor-jailed-defamation-corruption-claims-terry-xu-online-citizen\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Xu was convicted last year after publishing a letter alleging  \u2018corruption at the highest echelons\u2019The editor of a now-closed Singaporean news outlet has been jailed for three weeks for defamation over a letter published on the site that alleged &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"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":[41,457,238,783,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-freedom-of-speech","category-media","category-singapore","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43777","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\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43778,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43777\/revisions\/43778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}