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Police take 5 months to release SFD members from “defamation” investigations

Posted on 25. Jun, 2011 in criminal defamation, once a jolly hangman, Press Release, sfd trio

Singapore Police ForceSFD Media Release
25 June 2011

Police take 5 months to release SFD members from “defamation” investigations

Singaporeans For Democracy (SFD) members Mr Seelan Palay 27, Mr Jarrod Luo 27 and Miss Rachel Zeng 28 were informed this week, 5 months after they were first summoned by the police, that investigations of the trio under section 502 of the Penal Code, Chapter 224 under the Criminal Procedure Code 2010 (Act 15 of 2010) were completed and they were released from it.

The trio was investigated under the Penal Code section that relates to the “Sale of printed or engraved substance containing defamatory matter, knowing it to contain such matter, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2 years, or with fine, or with both”. Read more »

Police investigate SFD members over death penalty book

Posted on 25. Jan, 2011 in freedom filmfest, once a jolly hangman, Press Release, sfd trio

SFD counter at Freedom Filmfest 2010SFD Media Release
25 January 2011

Police investigate SFD members over death penalty book

Three members of Singaporeans For Democracy (SFD) are being investigated by the police over the sale of 12 copies of the book Once A Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock at a film screening at the Substation on 14 November 2010.

Mr Seelan Palay 27, Mr Jarrod Luo 27 and Miss Rachel Zeng 28 have been summoned to appear at the Major Crime Division of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) at 1130am on 27 January 2011. Read more »