Healing the Divide’s Iris Koh and doctor Jipson Quah to stand trial from Dec 16

SINGAPORE: The test of Iris Koh, chairman of the Healing the Divide cluster known to be against COVID-19 vaccination, and suspended physician Jipson Quah will launch on Dec 16.

This comes almost three years after Koh, 48, and Dr Quah, 36, were first charged in January 2022 with conspiring to cheat the Ministry of Health ( MOH) that people were vaccinated against COVID-19 when they were not.

Between December and May 2025, court records updated on Wednesday ( Oct 16 ) indicated that fifteen days of trial have been scheduled.

Koh faces a full of 14 expenses. She is accused of:

  • conspiring with Dr. Quah to fabricate information to MOH that seven people had received the Sinopharm shot when they did never in 2021 and 2022.
  • By stumbling upon the ministries of cultural and family development and the MOH and the Ministry of Social and Family Development on Facebook,
  • Harassing doctors at vaccination centres by instigating members of the group chats to book vaccination slots, question&nbsp, the doctors about vaccine&nbsp, safety, ask to record their responses and consider&nbsp, reporting&nbsp, them to the Singapore Medical Council ( SMC) &nbsp, if they decline
  • Organising a common assembly against Singapore’s COVID-19 immunization programme&nbsp, by distributing shirts&nbsp, near Bedok police department headquarters and encouraging people to take pictures in the tops
  • While a police officer is locked up in a police compound, refusing to sign and tear up a duplicate of her speech.

Dr Quah faces a full of 17 fees.

Apart from the seven costs with Koh as co-conspirator, he has another 10 claims of making or conspiring to make false&nbsp, images to MOH that individuals were vaccinated with the&nbsp, Sinopharm shot when they were&nbsp, not&nbsp, in 2021 and 2022.

After the SMC claimed he reportedly administered saltwater solution to many people in place of a COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Quah was suspended from medical training in March 2022.

Dr. Quah’s attorneys are Ms. Lynette Chang and Mr. Adrian Wee of Lighthouse Law, while Mr. Wee Pan Lee and Mr. Low Chang Yong of Wee, Tay &amp, Lim represent him.

Both remain out on bail of S$ 30, 000 ( US$ 23, 000 ) each.

After failing to file a judicial review against the health sciences authority ( HSA ), Koh and her husband Raymond Ng were ordered to pay S$ 12, 000 in costs in September.

Their goal was to obtain a mandated attempt for HSA to research and prosecute companies that used stars to promote vaccination. After concluding that it was a approach abuse, the court rejected their application.

Making a misleading picture without permission can lead to up to 20 years in prison, a great, or both.

If convicted of obstructing public employees, a man may remain jailed for up to six months, fined up to S$ 2, 500, or both. &nbsp,

If convicted of abuse, a person may become jailed for up to six months, fined up to S$ 5, 000, or both. &nbsp,

For abetting the payment of an offence by the people or more than 10 people, a person can become jailed for up to five years, fined, or both. &nbsp,

A fine of up to S$ 5, 000 is imposed for holding an assemblage without a permit.