On Jack Chick’s The Little Bride
Couple charged under Sedition Act
The Straits Times
April 15, 2008By Elena Chong, Court Correspondent
A COUPLE were charged on Tuesday with distributing a seditious publication to two others.
Ong Kian Cheong, 49, and Dorothy Chan Hien Leng, 44, are alleged to have distributed The Little Bride, an evangelistic material, to Sembawang resident Irwan Ariffin last Oct 19.
They are also said to have distributed the same publication to one Madam Farharti Ahmad at her home in Woodlands on March 6 last year .
It is not clear why they face the Sedition Act and the Undesirable Publication Act when the publication is the same.
Ong, who works in a telecommunications company, and his wife, a bank employee, were represented by Mr Selva K. Naidu.
The police prosecutor sought an adjournment of the case pending a Health Sciences Authority on handwriting specimen.
The couple were freed on $10,000 bail each. Their passports were impounded.
The case will be mentioned on April 29.
Under the Sedition Act, the maximum penalty is a $5,000 fine and/or a jail term of up to three years.
The maximum penalty under the Undesirable Publication Act is a fine of up to $5,000 and/or up to 12 months.
Before you go thinking, “Oooh, harsh”, read this: (I’m linking to another blog because the original site is no longer accessible in Singapore, for obvious reasons)
I don’t know what this guy was thinking, with his ugly drawings, and less than flattering portrayals of Muslims. I’m not heavily inclined towards either religion, but I recognise a fallacy when I see one. “Poisoning the well,” as Polly called it.
