Singapore GE2020: Police investigating netizen who claims to have flagged WP's Raeesah Khan's social media posts

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Singapore GE2020: Police investigating netizen who claims to have flagged wpsg's Raeesah Khan's social media posts

SINGAPORE - The police are investigating a Facebook user who claimed to have flagged social media posts made by Workers' Party candidate Raeesah Khan.

The netizen is being investigated for the alleged offences of harassment and posting comments on social media with deliberate intent to wound religious or racial feelings.In a Facebook post circulated on Sunday, the netizen claimed to be"one of the first to leak out and viral screenshots" of Ms Khan's social media accounts.

Ms Khan, 26, is standing in Sengkang GRC as part of a four-man WP team. Her father, Mr Farid Khan, is president of the Singapore Malay Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a Singapore presidential hopeful in 2017 . The police statement said that she had allegedly commented that Singapore law enforcement authorities discriminated against citizens, and that compared with other groups, rich Chinese and white people were treated differently under the law.

 

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