SINGAPORE: A Singapore man has been fined some 8,500 Singapore dollars after posting a video and a doctored photograph online that a court found to be inciting violence. The unemployed 36-year man, identified as Gary Yue Mun Yew, posted a clip depicting the assassination of former Egypt President Anwar Sadat on the Facebook group page of the website Temasek Review in August 2010, local media reported. Along with the video, Yue wrote the comment: “We should re-enact a live version of this on our own grand-stand during our national's (sic) parade!!!!!” The former engineer at Singapore Technologies was also found guilty of posting a photograph on his Facebook profile in late July or early August 2010, which depicted Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner. The face of Singapore's former Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng was superimposed on the image of the prisoner and was largely the reason behind the case, local observers told Bikyamasr.com. On each count, Yue could have faced up to five years in jail or a fine, or both. During sentencing, District Judge Low Wee Ping made it clear that the charges against Yue were “based on the acts of posting electronic documents that contained incitement to violence.” This, the judge argued, “was different from the act of inciting violence.” The judge also said that the YouTube video and Yue's comment were “without doubt, an incitement to political assassination of persons on the grand-stand” on National Day. Describing Yue as “immature” and “attention-seeking”, the judge ruled, however, that Yue had no intent to incite violence. The judge found Yue guilty on both charges and fined him S$6,000 for uploading the video clip and another S$2,500 for posting the doctored photograph. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/p1uYy Tags: featured, Fine, Online, Singapore Section: East Asia, Egypt, Latest News, Tech
