{"id":67683,"date":"2024-11-06T09:24:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T00:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/06\/kokila-annamalai-singapore-activist-online-speech-laws-pofma-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2024-11-06T09:24:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T00:24:18","slug":"kokila-annamalai-the-first-activist-in-singapore-to-defy-its-stifling-online-speech-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67683","title":{"rendered":"Kokila Annamalai, the first activist in Singapore to defy its \u2018stifling\u2019 online speech laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The activist risks jail after refusing to \u2018correct\u2019 online posts criticising Singapore\u2019s death penalty and drug laws, a first in the city state under its \u2018Pofma\u2019 act<\/p>\n<p>Kokila Annamalai, a prominent Singaporean activist, has spent years supporting death row inmates and their families as they fight to avoid execution. So, when she was ordered by the government to share a \u201ccorrection\u201d on social media that countered criticisms she had made of Singapore\u2019s laws, and accused death row inmates of \u201cabusing\u201d the justice system, she felt compelled to take a stand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeath row prisoners are one of the most voiceless and powerless people in our society, and the courts are such a powerful institution,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/06\/kokila-annamalai-singapore-activist-online-speech-laws-pofma-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The activist risks jail after refusing to \u2018correct\u2019 online posts criticising Singapore\u2019s death penalty and drug laws, a first in the city state under its \u2018Pofma\u2019 actKokila Annamalai, a prominent Singaporean activist, has spent years supporting death ro&#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":[1038,783],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capital-punishment","category-singapore"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67683","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=67683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67684,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67683\/revisions\/67684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}