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A man found guilty of posting two electronic documents containing an incitement to violence has been fined a total of $8,500 on Monday.
Former engineer, Gary Yue Mun Yew, 36, is the first person to be tried and convicted here after a day-long trial in January, reported The Straits Times.
The unemployed man was fined $6,000 for posting the document on the Temasek Review page on Aug 9, 2010. The document consisted of a link to a video clip showing the assassination of Egypt's former president Anwar Sadat.
Yue had included a comment along with the clip stating that a live version of it should be re-enacted 'on our own grand-stand during our nation's parade!!!!'.
He was fined another $2,500 for posting another document on his Facebook profile, this time showing a doctored photograph showing Vietnam's General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing then Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng.
Mr Wong's head and the logo of People's Action Party were superimposed on the original Pulitzer prize-winning photograph by Eddie Adams.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Sanjiv Vaswani tried to push for a jail sentence on Yue, but his lawyers N. Sreenivisan and S. Balamurugan argued that Yue is the sole bread winner of the family and had lost his job in July last year.
Yue is also supporting his ailing father and would benefit from counselling instead of a custodial sentence, argued his lawyers.
District Judge Low Wee Ping had found that Yue's postings and comments were, without a doubt, an incitement to political assassinations of persons who would be on the grand-stand during National Day.
But he found that Yue was seeking attention rather than having the intention to incite violence.
Yue could have been jailed for up to five years and/or fined on each charge.
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