Singapore human rights lawyer M Ravi was charged on Wednesday with criminally defaming Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam in a Facebook post last month.Ravi had claimed in the November 6 post that fellow lawyer Eugene Thuraisingam, who briefly employed Ravi when he was suspended from practising law in 2015, had said Shanmugam “wields influence over Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon”.He further alleged that Thuraisingam had also said Shanmugam “calls the shot and controls (sic) Sundaresh…
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