Tag Archives: Remand

Former human rights lawyer M Ravi has been offered bail of $20,000 following his remand at the Institute of Mental Health. He is banned from posting on social media and from disturbing anyone or committing any offence. He was said to have accepted the bail conditions.

48 year old Mohammad Rosli Abdul Rahim has been charged for allegedly killing Mohammad Roslan Zaini 2 days ago at Teck Whye Crescent. He will be remanded for a week for investigations and will appear in court on 25 Aug. He may face the death penalty if convicted of murder.

A 40-year-old woman who was allegedly involved in a fight at a Teochew Porridge Restaurant was remanded at IMH after likely suffering from post-natal depression. Pang Pei Pei had previously gone to IMH for treatment but did not go for further follow-ups. She did not take her medication too. Her 5-month old daughter is placed under another person's care at the moment. Pang Pei Pei was charged for being involved in rash act at the eatery together with 3 men who threw furniture at the Teochew porridge counter. They were reportedly enraged because of their $28 bill. Pang will be back in court on 20 June while a few of the men are currently out on bail.

While Amos Yee may not be the world’s youngest prisoner of conscience, his situation nonetheless calls for an urgent resolution, especially when reports have emerged that he is under mental stress while in the IMH, and after having been imprisoned for so many weeks – even before he has been sentenced. While Amos Yee may not be the world’s youngest prisoner of conscience, he is undoubtedly Singapore’s youngest political prisoner.

So I was sharing the story of my charge with my fellow prison mates during the yard, expressing my perplexity that there would even be these things like remand or bail conditions, before you were found guilty by the judge. So then my prison mate said to me: ‘In America, you’re innocent until proven guilty. But in Singapore, you’re guilty until proven innocent.’

Wow. Happening right now. More than 700 (and counting) Taiwanese protesting against the Singapore government to release Amos Yee - outside the Singapore Trade office in Taipei. (The Singapore Trade office is the official Singapore Overseas Mission in Taiwan.) The Taiwanese are protesting for our Singapore child!

In Amos Yee's latest updates about his life in prison on his Facebook, he wrote about being placed in a special "monitored" cell and how 2 other inmates were transferred to his cell because there must always be 3 prisoners to 1 cell.

It appears that no one has an answer as to how teenage blogger Amos Yee is still able to post on Facebook. This was after the Singapore Prisons service confirmed that Amos Yee, who has been in remand at Changi Prison over the past 3 weeks, has no internet access.

‘The police in Singapore are very nice and friendly people.’ Not from the way I see it. Afterwards, this policeman, who looks like one of the stereotypical uncles Jack Neo would use in one of his movies. And he, also with a rambunctious grin, told me. ‘Don’t look so happy now, once you go into the cell, you’re not going to look so happy anymore.’ Wow, I don’t think they’re nice and friendly people...

After weeks of silence, Amos Yee reemerged on Facebook with a series of seemingly unbelievable posts. At a time when he is supposed to still be in prison, he managed to make four FB posts since yesterday to "fuck with the Government". He told supporters that he went to jail for the sins of all Singaporeans and now pits himself against all of history’s great ‘Martyrs’ such as Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Jesus.