Lee Hsien Yang, who has been granted political refugee status in the U.K., told The Associated Press that Singaporean authorities have “weaponized” the country's laws against critics and that he is just the most prominent example of a growing number of Singaporeans fleeing abroad to seek protection from their own government.
Singapore's affluent veneer hiding repression and corruption, says son of its modern-day founder
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Lee Hsien Yang, the estranged brother of former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, said Tuesday that he's now a “political refugee” after the U.K. government granted him asylum from what he described as persecution at home.
Lee Hsien Yang, son of Singapore's founder, says he has been granted political asylum in the U.K.
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