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Photo source: Reuters “The public should decide at least for once,” said Mr M Ravi, defence lawyer for Mr Alan Shadrake. Mr Ravi was responding to a question from Justice Quentin Loh about who should decide on whether statements from Shadrake’s book Once A Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Docks are contemptuous. Mr... 

Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today called democracy a “failed” ideology and held up China’s model of authoritarianism as an alternative “worth studying”. He said China’s political model — which he termed the “Beijing Consensus” — showed that a nation could develop well even in the absence... 

Alan Shadrake with defence counsel M Ravi ‘Once A Jolly Hangman – Singapore Justice in the Dock’  is “a broadbased attack on the entire judiciary system that can never be justified,” said Deputy Public Prosecutor Hema Subramaniam on the first day of Alan Shadrake’s trial this morning. The British journalist was...