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Update: Former TRS editor Ai Takagi, who is 8 weeks pregnant, jailed 10 months for sedition

Published Wed, Mar 23, 2016 · 03:53 AM
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SINGAPORE - Ai Takagi, the editor of The Real Singapore (TRS) website, was sentenced to 10 months' jail on Wednesday (March 23) on four charges of publishing seditious articles which had the tendency to promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between different classes of the population of Singapore.

Before she was sentenced, the 23-year-old, who is eight weeks pregnant, apologised to the people of Singapore for the harm she had caused by posting content to her website.

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