Singapore - Court rejects ailing British writer's appeal against six-week sentence

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders deplores today's decision by Singapore's highest court to reject 76-year-old British writer Alan Shadrake's appeal against the six-week jail sentence he received last November on a charge of contempt of court for criticizing the country's judicial system in a book. He is expected to begin serving the sentence next week. “We are dismayed,” Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-François Julliard said. “This is the longest sentence ever passed for such an offence. (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - vendredi 27 mai 2011