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SINGAPORE – Mr Li Shengwu said he will pay a $15,000 fine for contempt of court but he does not admit guilt and disagrees that he said anything illegal in a private Facebook post.
Mr Li is the grandson of founding father Lee Kuan Yew and son of Lee Hsien Yang. In a Facebook post on Tuesday (Aug 11), a day before the fine is due, Mr Li wrote that he had decided to pay the fine “in order to buy some peace and quiet”.
“Paying the fine avoids giving the Singapore government an easy excuse to attack me and my family,” he added.
However, Mr Li said “the true scandal is the misuse of state resources to repress private speech”.
“In the course of this three-year prosecution, the Singapore Attorney General’s chambers has written thousands of pages of legal documents, suppressed parts of my defence affidavit, and demanded that I reveal to them all of my friends on Facebook,” he added.
Mr Li, an assistant professor of economics at Harvard University living in the United States, was sentenced to a $15,000 fine after the High Court found him guilty of contempt of court last month.
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