Dear ppl, don't anyhow super impose pictures of ministers,
ex ministers, ex ex ex ministers. gahmen will
catchu. can be liable for inciting violence. not I say
one. they say one.
In what is probably the first case of its kind in Singapore, a
man is standing trial for posting an edited photo of a soldier
pointing a pistol at a former deputy prime minister, reported The
Straits Times (ST).
Gary Yue Mun Yew, 36, allegedly doctored a Pulitzer Prize-winning
photograph taken by Eddie Adams showing a Vietnamese general
executing a Viet Cong officer in 1968 by superimposing the head of
former DPM Wong Kan Seng onto the Viet Cong’s body then used the
image as his Facebook display picture in mid-2010, said ST.
[See
the original photo]
Today newspaper wrote that Yue, a former assistant principal
engineer for ST Kinetics, is accused of inciting violence on
Facebook for posting the photo, as well as for putting up a link to
a video of the assassination of an Egyptian president. He allegedly
indicated that the video should be re-enacted at a National Day
Parade.
ST said that a member of the public made a police report in
September 2010 after the video link apparently appeared on the
Temasek Review Facebook page, which included a comment that said,
“We should re-enact a live version of this on our own grandstand
during our national parade!!!!!!”
Today said Yue told the court on Wednesday that he had no intention
to incite violence, and that he only made the posts as satire aimed
at reducing his stress at work. It was also during that time when
many were unhappy about terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari’s escape from
a Singapore prison.
When contacted, Yue’s lawyer, N. Sreenivasan, declined to comment
on the case.
District Judge Low Wee Ping will deliver his verdict on 16
February. If found guilty, Yue will face a maximum of five years in
jail and also be fined for both charges.
