{"id":46353,"date":"2026-04-22T01:37:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=46353"},"modified":"2026-04-22T01:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:37:38","slug":"woman-to-be-charged-over-pofma-non-compliance-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=46353","title":{"rendered":"Woman to be charged over POFMA non-compliance in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 Anti-death penalty activist Kokila Annamalai, 37, will be charged in court on <!-- -->April 23<!-- --> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/anti-death-penalty-activist-faces-pofma-office-probe-for-defying-correction-order?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">failing to comply with a correction direction<\/span><\/a> issued under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) Office. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a release on<!-- --> April 21<!-- -->, the POFMA office did not name Ms Kokila but referred to posts made by a 37-year-old woman on her <!-- -->Facebook and X accounts<!-- --> on <!-- -->Oct 2, 2024, and Oct 3, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The posts alleged 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">On Oct 5, 2024,<!-- --> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/activist-group-issued-pofma-order-over-false-claims-on-legal-steps-for-death-row-prisoners?ref=more-on-this-topic&amp;ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">the direction was issued to her to carry correction notices on those posts.<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is alleged that she did not comply with the direction,\u201d said the POFMA office on April 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">She will be charged with<!-- --> one count of failing to comply with the direction, without reasonable excuse<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/woman-to-be-charged-with-failing-to-comply-with-pofma-direction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 Anti-death penalty activist Kokila Annamalai, 37, will be charged in court on April 23 with failing to comply with a correction direction issued&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}