Elle Hunt “Australian woman jailed for sedition in Singapore over fake news stories” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/24/pregnant-australian-woman-jailed-for-sedition-in-singapore-over-website
ブリスベーン在住の23歳の日本系濠太剌利人の女性が新嘉坡における外国人問題についての虚偽の記事を自らが管理するウェブサイトに掲載し、懲役10か月の判決を受けた。彼女と夫である中国系新嘉坡人の男性は昨年２月に新嘉坡に入国した際に逮捕されている。ところで、この夫婦の罪はseditionで、辞書を見てみると、「反政府的扇動」、「治安破壊活動」とある。夫の方は無罪を主張しており、来週から裁判が開始される。
検察側の言い分；
Ai Takagi, a 23-year-old Australian of Japanese descent who is eight weeks pregnant, admitted to publishing fabricated stories on the popular website The Real Singapore, which she edited from her home of Brisbane.The three relevant stories – two targeting Filipinos and the third mainland Chinese – tended to “promote feelings of ill will and hostility” between different races in the diverse micronation, court documents said.
The prosecution said these were a bid to attract page views and extensive advertising revenue from her website. It was shut down after she and her Singaporean husband, Yang Kaiheng, 27, were arrested on a visit to Singapore in February last year.
アイ・タカギの謝罪；
The deputy public prosecutor, G Kannan, sought a 14-month prison sentence for Takagi, for using a “toxic cocktail of vulgar language innuendo (and) outright fabrication” to demonise foreigners, Channel News Asia reported – including some comments “too vile to be read out in court”*1.
エスニシティ問題が新嘉坡において最も敏感な問題だということはわかるけれど、またフェイク記事が悪いということも当然だが、それにしても、「治安破壊活動」というのは凄い！
Takagi made a public apology for the harm she had caused in court on Wednesday.“I love Singapore and hope to call it my home permanently,” she said. “I was not fully aware of the level of sensitivity needed when dealing with topics related to racial and religious issues in Singapore.
“I will be more careful with my online postings in future”
*1:Vanessa Paige Chelvan “Former TRS editor Ai Takagi sentenced to 10 months' jail for sedition” http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/prosecution-seeks-14/2628482.html
