In what's believed to be the first trial of its kind in Singapore, 36-year-old Gary Yue Mun Yew had posted a video clip depicting the assassination of former Egyptian President Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat on the Facebook page of socio-political website Temasek Review on August 9, 2010 at about 3.00 pm.
Along with the video, Yue wrote the comment: "We should re-enact a live version of this on our own grand-stand during our national's (sic) parade!".
The former engineer at Singapore Technologies had also used a photograph deemed to incite violence on his Facebook profile in late July or early August 2010.
The picture depicted Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet cong prisoner.
The head of former Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister, Wong Kan Seng, was superimposed on the image of the prisoner. The People's Action Party logo was also displayed on the prisoner's chest.
Under Section 267 of the Penal Code, the charges Yue faced, were strictly liability offences. He was subsequently found guilty on both charges and fined S$6,000 for posting the video clip and another S$2,500 for posting the doctored photograph on his Facebook profile.
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