A man who is identified as Singaporean Yan Jun, 41, with a strong PRC accent was arrested twice in a week for holding a sign at Raffles Place MRT station calling for limpeh bradder PM Lee to resign was sentenced to three weeks’ jail and fined S$20,000 on Monday (August 14, 2017).
The first incident happened on 3 July 2017, Monday at between 12.21pm to 12.29pm when he was arrested.
He was believed to be released by the Singapore Police as he makes his appearance again the second time on 4 July 2017, Tuesday at around 12.50pm and he has arrested by the police again at approximately 3 minutes.
Video footaged showed Yan Jun standing near Raffles Place MRT station with loudhailer in one hand and a placard. According to court documents, it stated: “PM Lee: resign over Terrax (sic) conspiracy” on one side. The other side had a statement accusing the Supreme Court of “judicial corruption”.
This is not his first brush with the law.
In 2016, Yan Jun is charged of taking part in a public assembly at the Istana Park, a prohibited area, on Mar 2, 2016 and a second charge for taking part in another public assembly without a permit on Apr 13, 2016, at High Street Centre along North Bridge Road, which is close to Singapore’s Supreme Court.
Yan was alone in both instances.
In 2013, Yan sued the Government for “wrongful arrest, false imprisonment, assault and battery, excessive use of force, malicious prosecution, abuse of process and defamation”, arising from his 2009 arrest and subsequent detention, before he was released without being charged.
In July 2009, Yan said he was assaulted by his wife in the couple’s flat. He raised his arm to protect himself, but did not fight back, he claimed. When the police arrived, Yan pointed them to the master bedroom, telling officers his wife had beat him.
District Judge Ng Peng Hong, said during his sentencing, he had taken into account of the seriousness of the offences and and the lack of mitigating factors and Yan’s “blatant disregard for the law”.
Yan Jun will be sentenced to jail backdated from July 5, the day he was first remanded. If he is unable to pay the S$20,000 fine, he will have to serve 12 weeks’ jail in default.
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