SINGAPORE: Activist Kokila Annamalai was charged on Thursday (Apr 23) with failing to comply with a correction direction issued to her in 2024 under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA).
Annamalai, whose full name was listed as Annamalai Kokila Parvathi in court documents, is believed to be the second person charged under POFMA since it became law in 2019. The first, Jay Ish’haq Rajoo, was charged in March over false statements he made on TikTok.
Annamalai, a 37-year-old Singaporean, is accused of failing to comply with a correction direction issued to her on Oct 5, 2024, over posts she made a few days earlier on social media.
The posts were about a drug trafficker on death row named Mohammad Azwan Bohari and he and his family’s experience with his scheduled execution dates.
