Singapore cartoonist arrested for sedition
A Singaporean cartoonist has been arrested for alleged sedition over a satirical comic strip on his Facebook page that appeared to accuse the government of racism, police and his lawyer said yesterday.
Leslie Chew, 37, was released on bail following his arrest Friday, two days after a complaint was filed about his cartoon strip that lampooned the government for being "racist" toward minority Malays, his lawyer Choo Zheng Xi told AFP.
The strip was posted on Chew's "Demon-cratic Singapore" Facebook page on March 27.
"Police confirm that a 37-year-old man was arrested on 19 April 2013 for an offence under Section 4 (c) of the Sedition Act," police said in a statement.
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