Considering the contempt judges are commonly held in, especially after last week's absurd Supreme Court ruling that terrorists have constitutional protection, you never know if these elitists would try something here.
Whatever the case, this is most disturbing.
A BLOGGER has been charged with insulting a Singapore judge by saying she was "prostituting herself".
In the blog, Gopalan Nair criticised a recent legal hearing at which Singapore founding father Lee Kuan Yew and his son, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, testified in a defamation case they filed against an opposition party.
Mr Nair, 58, is charged with insulting Justice Belinda Ang Saw Ean by saying she was "prostituting herself during the entire proceedings, by being nothing more than an employee of Mr Lee Kuan Yew and his son and carrying out their orders," a court document said.
Justice Ang presided over the hearing.
The latest Penal Code charge replaces an initial charge which alleged Mr Nair sent the comments in an email, his lawyer Chia Ti Lik said.
If convicted, Mr Nair, a former Singaporean lawyer now based in California, faces up to one year in prison and a SG$5000 ($3865) fine.
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