On Saturday ( October 5 ), the Transformative Justice Collective ( TJC), an activist group that fights against the death penalty, received a third-party order under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act ( POFMA ) order.
The adjustment way relates to an article published on TJC’s business and comments made on its Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X , sites on Wednesday.
Kokila Annamalai, a journalist who posted on Facebook and X on Wednesday and Thursday, was also given a correction order, according to a media release from the Ministry of Home Affairs ( MHA ) on Saturday.
TikTok, however, has been issued with a qualified correction path over the preceding TJC post on the system.
False information was made in the content and the social media posts about the death row prisoners ‘ legal system and the trial of drug trafficking allegations.
According to the bogus allegations, the authorities schedules and remains executions haphazardly and without regard for expected legal process, and that the state does not have to pay the legal costs of proving a drug trafficking cost against an accused person.
” The state takes a serious view of the deliberate connection of falsehoods”, MHA said.
The POFMA Office has been given the directive from the minister for household affairs to challenge correction guidelines to TJC and Kokila, and to direct TikTok Pte Ltd to follow a precise modification direction.
TJC may be required to post a correction notice on its website, along with its Facebook, Instagram, and X posts, and make a fresh TikTok post with the adjustment see.
Annamalai’s Twitter and X posts will also need to include the adjustment notice. A , known civic advocate, she was charged in June over a pro-Palestinian march to the Istana.
According to MHA, TikTok will also be required to send a correction notice to all end-users in Singapore who had accessed TJC’s TikTok blog.
As of 11pm on Saturday, TJC, Annamalai and TikTok had never put up or communicated the necessary notices, assessments by CNA , showed.
In response to the bogus allegations, MHA stated that a prisoner’s implementation will only be scheduled after all mercy and appeal rights have been exhausted.
The state bears the constitutional burden of proving a drug trafficking command against an accused person, MHA continued.
The trial must always demonstrate beyond a shadow of doubt how successful its event is against an accused person. This also applies to crimes under the Misuse of Drugs Act, including pharmaceutical trafficking”, the department said.
An article on the government , fact-checking site Factually , explains deeper why the claims made by TJC and Annamalai are fake.
MHA noted that TJC had , formerly been handed two POFMA adjustment orders, on Aug 8 and Aug 11, for having made similar misleading statements regarding death column prisoners.
TJC intentionally made up lies once more, according to MHA, despite the fact that they had already been informed of them.
The government continued,” It is also noticeable that TJC chose to show the medicine trafficker’s side of the story while ignoring the fact that he had committed the crime for personal financial gain and disregarded the damages he would make to his subjects – the substance abusers and their loved ones,” the department said.