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SINGAPORE – The chief editor of The Online Citizen (TOC) has applied to bring in Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s siblings as third parties in the defamation suit that PM Lee filed against him last month.
Mr Terry Xu, who filed his application in the High Court last Thursday (Sept 26), said he wanted Mr Lee Hsien Yang and Dr Lee Wei Ling to bear the damages if he is found to have defamed PM Lee in an Aug 15 article published by TOC.
He explained in a separate document filed last Friday that the article, “PM Lee’s wife, Ho Ching weirdly shares article on cutting ties with family members”, was meant to be ironic and meant no malice.
PM Lee is suing Mr Xu for defamation over the article, which his lawyers said contained “false and baseless” allegations, including that PM Lee misled his father, the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew, into thinking the family home in Oxley Road had been gazetted by the Government. The article was also shared on TOC’s Facebook page.
The lawyers also said PM Lee “has been gravely injured in his character and reputation, and has been brought into public scandal, odium and contempt”.
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