Singapore detains 17-year-old boy for supporting Islamic State after being radicalised online

A 17-year-old Singaporean secondary school student has been detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) for supporting the terrorist group Islamic State (Isis), the ministry of home affairs (MHA) said on Monday.He was first investigated in September 2017 when he was 15 years old, after he posted defaced images of President Halimah Yacob on social media and called on Isis to behead her for supporting Singapore, which he viewed as an “infidel” state, the ministry said. He had been radicalised…