SINGAPORE – Activist Kokila Annamalai is standing trial on a charge of allegedly failing to comply with a correction direction issued by the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) Office.
The correction direction was issued over social media posts she made in October 2024 about a drug trafficker on death row.
She had alleged in the posts that the Government schedules and stays executions arbitrarily without regard for due legal process, and that the state does not bear the legal burden of proving a drug trafficking charge against the accused person.
After she was issued the correction direction by the POFMA Office on the instruction of Minister for Home Affairs and then Law Minister K. Shanmugam, she allegedly published a post defying it.
Kokila, 38, was first charged in April 2026 with allegedly failing to comply with the correction direction.
On the first day of the trial on Oct 7, part of a post titled “I defy: Why I am not complying with my POFMA correction direction” was read out in the courtroom, which was filled with supporters.
The prosecution team, led by deputy public prosecutors Timotheus Koh, Stephanie Koh and Ernest Goh, told the court that it was a straightforward case of deliberate non-compliance with a correction direction.
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