Kirsten Han

🇸🇬 Journalist, writer and activist. Champion of clauses. Author of The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope (Ethos Books, 2023)

[Kirsten Han @kixes]

@cremieuxrecueil I’m not sure the caning is so you can be rapidly released. There’s also caning with life sentences and other long sentences.

[Kirsten Han @kixes]

“The Government only seeks to correct falsehoods,” MHA says in its Correction Direction to @ADPANetwork. It’s my opinion that that is itself a falsehood, and that POFMA has been thoroughly weaponised as a political tool to ensure that only PAP narratives are allowed to prevail.

[Kirsten Han @kixes]

In 2019, before POFMA was passed, a question was brought up about how the legislation’s broad provisions could be abused by a future rogue government. In response, K Shanmugam, the Minister for Home Affairs and Law, said, “I cannot vouch for how a future government will act.” Ji

[Kirsten Han @kixes]

It’s bullying & gaslighting—designed to coerce while maintaining plausible deniability, cloaking oppression in legalese/bureaucracy, making things convoluted so the public is left with confused impressions that deter them from exercising their own political agency.