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SHOCK: Now Alan Shadrake owns Attorney-General $55,000 lawyer fees
BRITISH author Alan Shadrake was sentenced to six weeks' jail and a $20,000 fine on Tuesday - the heaviest punishment handed down in Singapore for contempt of court by scandalising the judiciary.
If Shadrake, 76, fails to pay the fine, he will have to serve two more weeks in prison. He was also ordered to pay legal costs of $55,000 to the Attorney-General's Chambers.
Earlier this month, Shadrake was found to have impugned the impartiality, integrity and independence of Singapore's courts in his book Once A Jolly Hangman: Singapore's Justice In The Dock.
On Tuesday, Justice Quentin Loh noted that he had given Shadrake the chance to make amends. He said he would have dealt with Shadrake very differently if the freelance journalist had apologised sincerely and unequivocally to the court.
Yet, Shadrake had given an interview to British newspaper, The Guardian, insisting that his book was 'devastatingly accurate'.
BRITISH author Alan Shadrake was sentenced to six weeks' jail and a $20,000 fine on Tuesday - the heaviest punishment handed down in Singapore for contempt of court by scandalising the judiciary.
If Shadrake, 76, fails to pay the fine, he will have to serve two more weeks in prison. He was also ordered to pay legal costs of $55,000 to the Attorney-General's Chambers.
Earlier this month, Shadrake was found to have impugned the impartiality, integrity and independence of Singapore's courts in his book Once A Jolly Hangman: Singapore's Justice In The Dock.
On Tuesday, Justice Quentin Loh noted that he had given Shadrake the chance to make amends. He said he would have dealt with Shadrake very differently if the freelance journalist had apologised sincerely and unequivocally to the court.
Yet, Shadrake had given an interview to British newspaper, The Guardian, insisting that his book was 'devastatingly accurate'.