{"id":46989,"date":"2026-04-24T09:49:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=46989"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:49:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:49:47","slug":"kokila-annamalai-charged-over-pofma-correction-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=46989","title":{"rendered":"Kokila Annamalai charged over Pofma correction direction"},"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 &#8211;<!-- --> Anti-death penalty activist Kokila Annamalai was charged in court on April 23 over social media posts she made on her Facebook and X accounts in October 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">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, said the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) Office in a statement on April 21. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The 37-year-old Singaporean was handed one charge of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/anti-death-penalty-activist-faces-pofma-office-probe-for-defying-correction-order?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow 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 issued <\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/anti-death-penalty-activist-faces-pofma-office-probe-for-defying-correction-order?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow 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\">by<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/anti-death-penalty-activist-faces-pofma-office-probe-for-defying-correction-order?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow 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 POFMA Office<\/span><\/a> without reasonable excuse. Under the correction direction issued on Oct 5, 2024, she was required to carry correction notices on those posts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Kokila\u2019s case has been scheduled for a pre-trial conference on May 14. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">If convicted, she could be fined up to $20,000, jailed for up to 12 months, or both. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/anti-death-penalty-activist-charged-over-failing-to-comply-with-pofma-correction-direction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE &#8211; Anti-death penalty activist Kokila Annamalai was charged in court on April 23 over social media posts she made on her Facebook and X&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46990,"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-46989","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\/46989","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=46989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}