Lawyer Charles Yeo seeking ‘political asylum’ in the UK, fails to return after getting court permission to travel

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SINGAPORE — Lawyer Charles Yeo Yao Hui, the former chairman of Reform Party, has failed to return to Singapore from the United Kingdom after he was granted permission

, the former chairman of Reform Party, has failed to return to Singapore from the United Kingdom after he was granted permission by the court to travel there to meet clients.meant to be from July 27 to 30, and he did not tell his lawyers that he would stay on thereafter, they told TODAY on Monday .

He is accused of making remarks on his Instagram and Facebook accounts to wound the feelings of the Christian community on three occasions — Nov 13 in 2020 as well as on Feb 23 and 26 in 2021. Court documents identified the police officer as Deputy Superintendent of Police Jonathan Auyong. The documents also carried screenshots of Yeo's posts, including an online article about DSP Auyong.After he was charged, Yeo alleged that he was “facing a swamp of politically motivated persecution aimed at imprisoning or exiling me”.

“I believe that if the court was impartial, they would be able to vindicate me easily but I don’t think even the best lawyer can do anything in politically motivated cases,” Yeo said.

 

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