Law

Samuel Rappylee Bateman, 46, a leader of a polygamist cult-like branch of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purportedly had over 20 wives, a number of them children, an FBI affidavit filed in the Eastern District of Washington indicated The wives included one of his own daughters, as reported by the Washington […]

Netizens have held an interesting online dialogue comparing Singapore’s parliamentary sessions with those of its neighbour, Malaysia. This follows a back-to-back video that was recently shared of a civil speech being delivered in a session in Singapore followed by what seemed to be more boisterous in a session that took place in Malaysia. A Redditor […]

Singapore — A 50-year-old businessman who donated money to an Islamic State militant on three separate occasions in 2013 and 2014 faced charges of terror financing on Monday (Jul 19). Mohamed Kazali Salleh remains detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) and made his court appearance via video link. The businessman intends to enter a […]

Singapore — Lawyer M Ravi is helping to take on Chinese tech giant Tencent in his first international human rights law case on breach of privacy and on surveillance. Mr Ravi wrote in a Facebook post on Friday afternoon (Jan 29) that his court clerk had served the court papers on Tencent in a lawsuit […]

Singapore—A man born in Singapore wanted in relation to a murder case nearly four decades ago is in jail in Australia, but the country’s Attorney-General’s Department has said he cannot be extradited if he faces the death penalty. Seventy-seven-year-old Tham Kwok Wah is a suspect in the murder of a man believed to have been […]