Updates on PothePanda case: Police yet to reply to blogger’s complaints

Updates on PothePanda case: Police yet to reply to blogger’s complaints

The PothePanda case has stirred considerable controversy in blogosphere ever since we broke the story. While many believed his allegations that he was arrested and interrogated by the police, some were sceptical and even accused us of concocting the story to boost our readership.

Lawyer Chia Ti Lik is currently handling the case. He has posted a brief update here. Will Mr Chia put his reputation at stake if there is no case at all? For those of you who still doubt the claims of PothePanda, please contact Mr Chia directly at his blog to verify for yourself.

Dear readers,

As some of you should know by now, there was an infamous incident in March 2009,where a blogger & regular forumer Gary Tan Yeong Hong,who writes under the moniker “PoThePanda”, was arrested and subjected to a highly unusual interrogation by the Singapore Police Force(SPF).

Gary Tan released a short statement on his blog on the 13/03/09 which detailed the events of 02/03/09.He then conducted a video interview with Wayang Party which was broadcasted on the 23/03/09.

Subsequently, he was informed by the administrator/moderator of Hardwarezone via email,that the SPF had requested the article to be taken down from the website. SPF stated that the reason was because that Gary Tan was lying.

Now this was very unusual, as Gary had demanded the SPF, the ISD and the PAP government to respond publicly if he was lying.

In a police state like Singapore,why didn’t the SPF,the ISD or the PAP government respond to Gary’s statements publicly if they were untrue?

Since that day,Gary had been waiting for the SPF to contact him to follow-up but they did not. Apparently,they had the time to contact Administrators on Internet portals,stating that Gary is lying but they did not have time to contact Gary himself.

After a discussion with his lawyer Mr Chia Ti Lik, a prominent human rights activist in Singapore, Gary decided to file an official complaint with the SPF. He did so on the 16/04/09 at Paya Lebar NPP.

Subsequently,on the 17/04/09,Gary sent in his statements on the events of 02/03/09,10/03/09 and 01/04/09 to the SPF/CID via their website.He requested an official case to be opened, and stated that he wished to pursue the matter.

He then received an auto-generated reply by the SPF.

It has been more than a week (almost 2 months if you count the day since the video interview) and up till today, nobody from the SPF has contacted Gary Tan Yeong Hong.

For the full details of the statements Gary sent in to the SPF, please visit his blog here

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