Singapore calls Human Rights Watch biased and untruthful

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SINGAPORE’S government has at long last responded to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report from 2017, which accused the city-state of “creative repression” in its silencing of activists and political opposition.
The Singaporean Ministry of Law released a statement on Friday regarding HRW’s failure to send representatives to its Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods, during which some 79 members of civil society were consulted.

Singapore is currently considering the introduction of new legislation to rein in what the government considers fake news.
“HRW’s stance is disappointing, but not surprising. HRW has a pattern of issuing biased and untruthful statements about Singapore,” said the Ministry of Law in a statement.

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