http://www.christiantoday.com/article/singapore.evangelists.found.guilty.in.first.sedition.trial/23492.htm
by Nathanael Ng (Christian Post, 2 Jun 09)
A Christian couple has been found guilty of distributing seditious or objectionable material to three Muslims and being in possession of seditious publications.
The case of Ong Kian Cheong, a SingTel technical officer, and Dorothy Chan Hien Leng, a UBS associate director, marks the first time in the republic that a full trial under the Sedition Act has been heard.
In 2005, a man was jailed for a month for posting inflammatory and vicious remarks about Muslims and Malays on the internet. The following year, an accounts assistant received a stern warning for posting an offensive cartoon of Jesus Christ on his blog.
For many years, Ong and Chan had been involved in mass-mailing evangelistic tracts to members of the public. Three recipients of some of the booklets found them seditious or objectionable and lodged complaints.
They received the two evangelistic tracts titled The Little Bride or Who Is Allah? in December last year and told the court they felt angry, insulted and offended and believed a Christian group had sent them.
Ong and Chan were arrested on January 30 last year. The couple was also found to be in possession of 439 copies of 11 publications deemed sedicious at their Maplewoods Condominium.
Related articles:
Couple sentenced to 8 weeks jail for distributing seditious publications (CNA, 10 Jun 09)
Couple deserve jail: DPP (ST, 5 Jun 09)
Couple guilty of sedition (ST, 29 May 09)
