Fred Hiatt has a strong article in the Washington Post in support of Dr. Chee Soon Juan today, which mentions Robert Amsterdam’s involvement. Read more about the case of the Singaporean dissident here, here, and here.
Ambassador Chan says that her country must have a “tighter democracy” than America’s, because it is a small, multiethnic city-state in a challenging region — a rowboat next to America’s aircraft carrier.
“In an aircraft carrier, you can be playing soccer in one corner and have jets taking off in another, and the carrier remains stable,” she told me. “In a rowboat, it makes sense for everyone to row in the same direction.”
Amsterdam says that in his experience, which includes representing persecuted clients in Russia and elsewhere, governments do not go to great lengths to monopolize the media and control speech unless there is something they would rather their people not know. If he is right, Chee Soon Juan’s rap sheet would indicate there is much this government would rather not share with its public.
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