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Justice can only be served by releasing Amos Yee

The Singapore government has demonstrated a shameful disregard for freedom of expression and the rights of the child in the way it has treated Amos Yee. By holding him in remand and other forms of detention for over 50 days, the authorities have seriously abused his rights for simply voicing political opinions not popular with the government - and calling this a ‘crime’ when his actions should never have been criminalised in the first place.  

If Amos Yee is sentenced to additional time in a prison or reform training centre, this will be yet another incredible injustice to him and mark a further decline in Singapore’s already poor record of respecting free expression. The powers-that-be in Singapore should recognise that justice can only be served by immediately and unconditionally releasing Amos Yee.


PHIL ROBERTSON is deputy director, Asia Division, Human Rights Watch.

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