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SINGAPORE – The High Court on Wednesday (July 29) fined Mr Li Shengwu, nephew of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, $15,000 after finding him guilty of contempt by scandalising the court in a Facebook post he made in July 2017.
If Mr Li does not pay the fine, he will have to serve a default jail term of one week’s jail.
Mr Li, who announced in January that he would no longer participate in the contempt proceedings, was absent from court.
Earlier this month, when the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) made arguments for him to be found guilty, the court was told that reminders for him to attend court had been sent to Harvard University, where Mr Li, 35, is an assistant professor of economics.
In his decision, Justice Kannan Ramesh found that Mr Li’s post posed a real risk of undermining public confidence in the administration of justice.
He also rejected Mr Li’s argument that the post was private as it was visible only to his Facebook friends.
This argument, said the judge, skirted the real issue of whether it was reasonably forseeable that the post would be re-published.
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