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Did Alan Shadrake send open letter during the trial?
If so, is it constitute contempt of court?
http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/2010/10/singapores-lee-kuan-yew-and-his-son-don.html
Shadrake recently sent an open letter to the Australian press
about his unjust confinement in Singapore. I (Gopalan Nair) am reproducing it
with the permission of Amnesty International.
JUSTICE SINGAPORE STYLE
I AM BEING PROSECUTED AND FACING JAIL FOR EXPOSING JUDICIAL
SCANDALS IN SINGAPORE – SCANDALS THIS PAP DICTATORSHIP DOESN’T WANT
DECENT SINGAPOREAN CITIZENS TO KNOW ABOUT.
ONE PARTICULARLY HEINOUS SCANDAL CONCERNS GUIGA LYES LAROUSSI, A
TUNISIAN, WHO WAS THE MAIN DRUG SUPPLIER TO SINGAPORE’S SO-CALLED
HIGH SOCIETY DRUG CIRCLE IN 2004.
THIS DESTROYER OF LIVES WAS ALLOWED TO ESCAPE SINGAPORE AFTER
FACING A MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY CHARGE. THE CHARGE WAS THEN
‘NEGOTIATED’ DOWN SO HE WOULD RECEIVE A JAIL SENTENCE OF BETWEEN 20
TO 30 YEARS IN PRISON INSTEAD.
THEN ANOTHER MIRACLE HAPPENED: HE WAS ALLOWED BAIL IN THE SUM OF
$280,000, GIVEN HIS PASSPORT BACK AND ALLOWED TO LEAVE SINGAPORE.
THIS WAS DONE WITH THE HELP OF TOP GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS BECAUSE
THEY FEARED HE WOULD EXPOSE BIGGER NAMES IF HE WERE TO BE SENT TO
THE GALLOWS.
I EXPOSED THIS AND OTHER JUDICIAL SCANDALS IN MY BOOK BECAUSE I
HATE INJUSTICE. WHILE THIS EVIL DRUG BARON – FRIEND OF THE RICH AND
PRIVILEGED IN SINGAPORE – IS ENJOYING HIS LIFE OF LUXURY IN HIS
MANSION ON HIS FAMILY ESTATE IN LE BARDO, TUNISIA, SINGAPORE IS
PLANNING TO HANG MORE PITIFUL DRUG MULES - PERHAPS SOME WHO HELPED
GUIGA GET RICH.
HOW IS IT THAT THIS EVIL DRUG TRADER MANAGED TO ESCAPE JUSTICE? I
CANNOT GET MY PASSPORT BACK AND BE ALLOWED TO LEAVE SINGAPORE. THEY
ARE DETERMINED TO PUNISH ME FIRST!
I AM FACING A SIX MONTHS PRISON SENTENCE FOR EXPOSING THIS AND MANY
OTHER JUDICIAL SCANDALS IN SINGAPORE. THERE ARE TWO OTHER CHARGES
HANGING OVER ME ARISING FROM MY BOOK ONE OF WHICH CARRIES A TWO
YEAR PRISON SENTENCE. MY MEDICAL PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN HORRENDOUS TO
MY WELL-BEING AND FINANCES. I ALMOST BLED TO DEATH IN THE STREET
SIX WEEKS AGO FROM INTERNAL BLEEDING. HAD I NOT BEEN RUSHED TO
HOSPITAL I WOULD HAVE COLLAPSED AND DIED WITHOUT ANYONE KNOWING THE
CAUSE UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE.
WHERE IS THE JUSTICE IN WHAT THEY ARE NOW DOING TO ME? DID ANYONE
NOTICE THAT GUIGA LYES BEN LAROUSSI HAD ESCAPED JUSTICE? DID THE
STRAITS TIMES PUBLISH THIS SCANDAL? THEY DID NOT! WHY NOT? BECAUSE
THE POWERS THAT BE IN SINGAPORE, WHO CONTROL THE MEDIA, DIDN’T WANT
TO ANYONE TO KNOW.
BUT WHAT HAPPENED WHEN A ROMANIAN DIPLOMAT RAN AWAY IN MARCH
FOLLOWING A FATAL TRAFFIC ACCIDENT? SCREAMING HEADLINES IN THE NEW
PAPER AND STRAITS TIMES FOR HIM TO BE BROUGHT BACK AND TRIED!
GUIGA LAROUSSI, DESTROYER OF LIVES – INCLUDING HIS OWN SINGAPOREAN
GIRLFRIEND MARIANA ABDULLAH - - HAS BEEN ON INTERPOL’S WANTED LIST
FOR FIVE YEARS. THE HEAD OF INTERPOL IS YOUR VERY OWN FORMER POLICE
CHIEF KHOO BOON HUI! NO ATTEMPT HAS BEEN MADE TO BRING HIM BACK.
HIS LAWYER, SUBHAS ANANDAN, HAS SAID THAT HIS POWERFUL FAMILY WILL
TELL THE TUNISIAN POLICE TO ‘GO FLY A KITE’ IF THEY ATTEMPT TO
ARREST AND HAVE HIM EXTRADITED. THIS IS YET ANOTHER SCANDAL IN THIS
SAGA. I WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER TREATED HAD I BEEN A DRUG SYNDICATE
BOSS.
AMAZINGLY, Law Minister and Second Home Affairs Minister, K.
Shanmugam recently told TODAY that the death penalty for drug
offences here is a “trade-off” the government must make to protect
“thousands of lives” if drugs became freely available. He further
explained that if Yong Vui Kong (now on death row with 36 others)
escapes the death penalty, drug lords will see it as a sign that
young traffickers will be spared and will then use more of them as
drug mules. “You save one life here, but 10 other lives will be
gone. What will your choice be?” he added.
MY CHOICE MR. SHANMUGAM? IF ANYONE HAS TO BE HANGED, START WITH
DRUG BARONS LIKE GUIGA LYES BEN LAROUSSI!
I KNOW I WILL NOT GET FAIR JUSTICE. I WILL GET SINGAPORE
JUSTICE!
Alan Shadrake
A Prisoner of Singapore
October 28 2010
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