Tag Archives: Political Asylum

Amos Yee is back in the news after being arrested by the US police for child porn related charges. If Amos Yee is convicted with these child porn charges, his asylum status could potentially be terminated.

Activists in support of Amos Yee in the US have given an update on his status in prison, where he is still incarcerated while awaiting his trial to attain asylum in America.

The US government is appealing a US immigration judge's decision to grant Amos Yee asylum. The judge had ruled in March that Amos Yee should stay in the US as he had faced political persecution in Singapore.

Do you think it is possible? Amos Yee can get political asylum than Kong Hee maybe also can right? Now minister of law also come ask AGC to appeal against his sentence so he can fly to USA and bs to USA judge say he is being persecuted by the government for his religion belief

I refer to the article “An outspoken Singaporean blogger wins asylum in America” (The Economist, Apr 1 – 7). It states that “Immigration judges often grant asylum with a simple, spoken ruling. This one explained himself over 13 pages.

Human rights activist Han Hui Hui has left Singapore for an asylum bid in an undisclosed European country, says a source close to Ms Han. This fact was confirmed by another socio-political activist, Leong Sze Hian, also the president of human rights group MARUAH in Singapore.

Amos Yee is still incarcerated at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centre in Chicago, says a Hong Kong based news publication The News Lens. Yee had won a bid for political asylum in the United States of America and was legally eligible for release.

Ever since Amos Yee has been granted asylum there has been a lot of online discussion and confusion of the matter, people seem to be conflating his “hate speech” with his politically motivated persecutions. So lets shed some light on this issue.

According to media outlet TheNewsLens, Singaporean blogger Amos Yee has been granted political asylum in the United States after the judge deemed that his past arrests and convictions were persecutions for his political opinion.

A US judge will decide on the outcome of Singapore teen blogger Amos Yee's asylum application within the month. Yee had been arrested for online posts mocking the Singapore government. He sought asylum in December with the US and has been in detention there since he was taken into custody at O'Hare International Airport.