The Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) is moving ahead with contempt of court proceedings against academic Li Shengwu, said several sources familiar with the matter.
Yahoo News Singapore understands that a pre-trial conference for the case against Li, the eldest son of Lee Hsien Yang and nephew of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, has been set for 13 November.
The case stems from a Facebook post in July this year made by Li. In the private post, the 32-year-old junior fellow at Harvard University had said that “the Singapore government is very litigious and has a pliant court system”.
In response to numerous media reports on his post, Li claimed in August that he had not attacked the Singapore judiciary. Instead, the post was intended to criticise the “litigious nature” of the Singapore government and its effect on media freedom, and not the judiciary, he said.
That same month, the AGC filed an application in the High Court to commence committal proceedings against Li for contempt of court over the post. In response, Li called the action “politically motivated”.
In his last update on the case in late August, Li said the AGC had conceded that he did not need to delete the Facebook post after he had amended it.
Source: https://sg.yahoo.com/news/agc-proceeding-contempt-court-case-li-shengwu-sources-102844217.html
Perhaps Pinky no longer sees his siblings and their families as being part of the overall FAMILEE.
Perhaps to prove LTK wrong? Since he said FamiLEE will not sue its own flesh and blood until pants drop?
Its a face saving exercise for the AGC obviously duh..........
Sentencing will be meted out in absentia ? Like Shengwu would give two hoots about the AGC at all. If they dared they would have flown to the US to snatch his ass back.
Amen sister, amen to that. Then again perhaps this is karma getting all bitchy and biting ah gong where it really hurts. Except ah gong is no longer around hah.
Well by actually taking action our beloved AGC just proved to the entire world Li Shengwu's point without a sliver of doubt.