Gan Huai Shi
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Gan Huai Shi is a blogger from Singapore
who pled guilty to sedition
at the age of 17 in 2005, after he posted comments that were offensive towards Malays including calls for genocide
against them, in a blog titled The Second Holocaust (and later, The Third Holocaust).
He said the reason for his antipathy against Malays was because his younger brother died when he was young after a Malay stole the cab that would have sent his brother to hospital.
On 23 November 2005, Gan, a private school student, was sentenced to 24 months of supervised probation. He was also required to attend counselling sessions and perform community service working with Malays.
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
who pled guilty to sedition
Sedition Act (Singapore)
The Sedition Act is in Chapter 290 of the Statutes of Singapore. It was last revised in 1985.In September 2005, the Sedition Act was first used on individuals when three men, including a teenager, were charged for making seditious and inflammatory racist comments on the Internet.-Seditious...
at the age of 17 in 2005, after he posted comments that were offensive towards Malays including calls for genocide
Genocide
Genocide is defined as "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group", though what constitutes enough of a "part" to qualify as genocide has been subject to much debate by legal scholars...
against them, in a blog titled The Second Holocaust (and later, The Third Holocaust).
He said the reason for his antipathy against Malays was because his younger brother died when he was young after a Malay stole the cab that would have sent his brother to hospital.
On 23 November 2005, Gan, a private school student, was sentenced to 24 months of supervised probation. He was also required to attend counselling sessions and perform community service working with Malays.
See also
- Sedition Act (Singapore)Sedition Act (Singapore)The Sedition Act is in Chapter 290 of the Statutes of Singapore. It was last revised in 1985.In September 2005, the Sedition Act was first used on individuals when three men, including a teenager, were charged for making seditious and inflammatory racist comments on the Internet.-Seditious...