Singapore Arrests Indian Boy Over Facebook Bomb Threat.
Singapore Arrests Indian
Boy Over Facebook Bomb Threat.
SINGAPORE - Singapore
police on Tuesday arrested a 13-year-old Indian boy for posting a Facebook
message in which he allegedly threatened to bomb a luxury casino resort in the
city-state.
The unnamed boy vowed to take "a big big revenge",
"spit everywhere" and "plant bombs on Marina Bay Sands", a
major tourist attraction, on the day he leaves Singapore, according to The
Straits Times.
Police said the boy, a
student of the Global Indian International School, was arrested under the
Breach of Prohibition Against False Threats of Terrorist Acts, with reports
saying that the Facebook posting had been taken down.
The offense is punishable by a maximum of five years in jail or
a fine of up to Sg$100,000 ($82,000), or both. In 2009, a Singaporean man
suffering from depression was jailed for five years for sending hoax email
messages warning of terror plots against airlines, the Pentagon and the White
House.
In 2012, a Chinese university student was fined for calling
Singaporeans "dogs" on a blogsite and an Australian woman was fired
by a Singaporean employer for remarks disparaging the local Malay Muslim
minority on her Facebook page.
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