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In Parliament on Tuesday (1st Mar), Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam described The Online Citizen (TOC)’s investigation into the death of teenager, Benjamin Lim, as a “planned, orchestrated campaign using falsehoods”. (Link to Ministerial statement) We would like to respond to some of the points highlighted by... 

“If not for social media, especially TOC (The Online Citizen), the case would have died down a long time ago.”, said Mr Lim, father of 14-year-old Benjamin Lim in a thank-you dinner for the TOC editor. On 26 January, fourteen-year-old Benjamin Lim Jun Hui was found dead at the base of a HDB flat where he lived. Prior to... 

In 2013, the Singapore government through the Ministry of Education made use of CPE to issue letter of demand to sue me for defamation when I raised questions about foreign talents and degree mills. In 2014, the Singapore government through the Ministry of National Development made use of Nparks to ban me from organising any...