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Singapore jails teen blogger Amos Yee for anti-religion posts
A teenage blogger has been handed a prison sentence after he was found guilty by a Singapore court of "wounding religious feelings".
Amos Yee, 17, will spend six weeks in jail for deliberately posting videos and comments critical of Christianity and Islam.
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Yee was jailed for four weeks in 2015 after posting a video online that was considered insulting towards the late Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37505951
Amos Yee, 17, will spend six weeks in jail for deliberately posting videos and comments critical of Christianity and Islam.
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Yee was jailed for four weeks in 2015 after posting a video online that was considered insulting towards the late Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37505951
As this shows, and shown in the DU thread at the time, the insulting of the late leader was dressed up as wounding religious feelings too.
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