Singapore sues another Wall Street Journal editor
SINGAPORE: The Singapore Government is taking legal action against
another editor at The Wall Street Journal over articles allegedly
casting doubt on the judiciary's integrity, a report said Friday.
A High Court Judge granted an application by the attorney-general to
begin contempt proceedings against Melanie Kirkpatrick, a deputy editor
with the New York-based business newspaper's editorial page, the Straits
Times said in its online edition.
Kirkpatrick was responsible for "actions which resulted in the
publication and distribution" of three articles published in the WSJ's
sister newspaper, The Wall Street Journal Asia, the Straits Times said,
citing court documents.
The articles "contained passages that scandalise the Singapore
judiciary," the report said. Also facing contempt proceedings are the
newspaper's international editor Daniel Hertzberg and managing editor
Christine Glancey.
Published in June and July last year, the articles involved two
editorials and a letter by Singapore pro-democracy activist Chee Soon
Juan in The Wall Street Journal Asia.
A spokesman for the Dow Jones Publishing Company (Asia) Inc, the
publisher of The Wall Street Journal Asia, declined to comment when
contacted by AFP.
Monday, AFP
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