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Lydia Lam@LydiaLamCNA 19 Jan 2022 02:24PM (Updated: 19 Jan 2022 04:29PM)
SINGAPORE: Former Reform Party chairman Charles Yeo Yao Hui was handed criminal charges in court on Wednesday (Jan 19) over social media posts that allegedly harassed a police officer and wounded the religious feelings of Christians.
Yeo, 31, received three counts under the Protection from Harassment Act (POHA) of posting Instagram Stories with threatening, abusive and insulting remarks.
He was also charged with three counts of making or attempting to make remarks to wound the religious feelings of the Christian community.
Yeo was accused of making a post on his Facebook page in November 2020, intending to wound the religious feelings of Christians who view homosexuality as contrary to their religious beliefs.
In his post, he called such Christians “radical and dogmatic” and “fake Christians who use religion for personal gain”.
On two occasions in February last year, he allegedly attempted to wound the religious feelings of Christians by making two posts on his public Instagram page @toxicstatenarrativeinsg.
In the posts, Yeo pointed to certain Christian churches and referred to “homophobes with their trash agenda” and “radical Christians” who “are homophobic and distort the message of Christ”.
Yeo was also accused of making abusive, insulting and threatening communications against a police officer on his Instagram page in November 2020 and January 2021.
The posts referred to the officer by name and called him, among other things, “nothing but a pathetic coward and collaborator with an authoritarian regime” who “should be tortured before execution”.
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weehingthong 
I think calling for people to be “tortured before execution” is maybe a bit much, but nevertheless should one be free to say it?
What about the other things he said? In countries that pretend to be civilized, there are categories of “protected speech.” Alas, in many countries the governments do not even pretend to be civilized.