A couple found guilty last month of distributing seditious and
objectionable publications was sentenced to eight weeks'
imprisonment each.
SingTel technical officer Ong Kian Cheong, 50, and his wife, UBS
associate director Dorothy Chan Hien Leng, 46, each faced two
charges of distributing seditious publications, and one each of
distributing an objectionable publication and possession of
seditious tracts.
A district court ruled that the tracts the pair had mailed to
random people - including three Muslims - were "not only offensive
for religious content but also have a tendency to promote feelings
of ill-will or hostility between different races or classes of the
population".
By sending seditious and offensive tracts to Muslims, District
Judge Roy Neighbour said Ong and Chan clearly intended to "convince
the Muslim reader to convert to Christianity".
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