Filming protests might soon be illegal in Singapore
I’ve just been informed by Seelan Palay, a Singaporean activist, that his country’s Home Affairs Ministry is proposing an amendmend to the Films Act which will make it illegal to film illegal protests. Read more about it at The Online Citizen.
The amendment appears to liberate party political films from a ban list, but also proposes that events in political films must be legal. This is probably an attack on political films in Singapore which have been used effectively to expose human rights violations, such as One Nation Under Lee by Seelan Palay as well as Singapore Rebel and Zahari’s 17 Years, both by Martyn See.
An article called Censorship in Singapore on Wikipedia has a brief overview on the state of freedom of expression in Singapore.
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