Facebook Posting Backlash
Activist Jolovan Wham is clashing again with Singaporean law enforcers. He has been an avid defender of migrant workers’ rights.
Mahardika Satria hadi
Edition : 14 May 2019
Activist Jolovan Wham (center) after his trial at the Singaporean court, November 2017. / REUTERS/Edgar Su
The upload of merely two sentences, with a link to a news report, can still be seen on the Facebook account of Singaporean activist Jolovan Wham. Since he uploaded the comment on April 27, 2018, Wham, 39, has refused to delete the post that has angered law enforcers in the city state.
Wham wrote that the Singaporean court is not as independent as its Malaysian counterpart in handling cases with political implications. He linked his comm
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