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Dear Editorial Team, I am penning this in support of Roy Ngerng, who is in exile overseas so he can work and pay off a debt he owes to our already over bloated PM through constant victories in a series of defamation suits. Roy is well educated and holds a fairly decent well-paying job, that …

On 17 December 2015, blogger Roy Ngerng was found guilty for a blogpost that had allegedly defamed the Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore, and he was ordered by the Supreme Court to pay the PM S$150,000 in damages. Following the success of Leong Sze Hian in raising S$133,000 …

Prominent CPF activist and blogger Roy Ngerng has left Singapore to work in Taiwan, says socio-political commentator and president of MARUAH Leong Sze Hian. Roy Ngerng has been quiet on Facebook in these past months, but his instagram account (@ROYNGERNG) suggests that he is indeed in the Republic of China.

Dear The Workers' Party, thank you for fighting so hard in parliament yesterday to protect Singapore and Singaporeans. My heartfelt thanks and deepest appreciation. Your efforts are sometimes not appreciated. For some Singaporeans, some might feel that the Worker's Party had underperformed and decided to punish the Worker's Party at the general election last year, and therefore did not vote for the Worker's Party.

From what Soh Lung said on her Facebook, the police only told her that she needed to go back today to collect the devices that they seized from her last week. Soh Lung had said: "I don't know if the police have another trick up their sleeves. It is hard to trust them. But what can I do except to be prepared for the worst to happen? I may be subjected to another round of interrogation, threats and perhaps arrested. I don't know." She was right. When she got to the police station just now, the police would not let her bring her phone and powerbank up with her to the supposed "appointment". It did not feel like an appointment. It felt like a trap. They wanted to interrogate her further but pretended that it was only about letting her collect her devices. It was clear the police was up to something. They did not want her to bring her phone so that she would be trapped and could not contact anyone. The police wanted to keep her from contacting anyone so that they could intimidate her further.

The Workers’ Party is concerned about the manner in which the current investigations into alleged violations of “Cooling Off Day” regulations are reportedly being conducted. We understand from the public record that other individuals or entities who were reported for similar violations in the past were not known to have faced the same lengthy interviews, and searches and seizures of personal equipment.

This should surprise no one, but there is total silence in the state media on yesterday's egregious police harassment of Roy Ngerng and Teo Soh Lung. People said of Benjamin Lim, "But there've been so many investigations, and he's the only one where this happened!" Well, he's the only one you know of, because the state media is worse than useless on questions of civil liberties and due process. And you know about him only because TOC forced their hand. People scoffed, "This is Singapore; cover-ups don't happen!" Which gets it exactly backwards. This is Singapore, and the cover-up is so complete you don't even notice.

Community Action Network (CAN) calls for an end to the harassment of Roy Ngerng and Teo Soh Lung, who are under investigation following police reports filed by the Elections Department alleging that they had breached Cooling-Off Day rules during the Bukit Batok by-election. Ngerng and Teo have both been subjected to long interviews in police headquarters this morning. The police then proceeded to search both their homes for over two hours. During the search, they were not allowed to make any phone calls.

When I left the police station, I did not know what to feel. I was reminded of what a PAP MP shared on his Facebook - democracy is like gang rape in action. I felt raped. I felt raped when the police surrounded me to raid my home. I felt raped when they did not let me speak to my friends. I felt raped when the police searched all my devices and accounts in front of me. I felt like I was stripped and searched. I lost my dignity, even as I tried hard to maintain it.

Roy Ngerng Yiling and Teo Soh Lung are now being extensively investigated for their alleged offence for posting posts on their Facebook account during the recent Bukit Batok By-election Cooling Off Day. The Election Department had earlier filed police reports against the two individuals for allegedly violating the parliament election act, by posting posts that promote candidates on cooling off day.