Man being investigated for allegedly inciting violence online

SINGAPORE - Arrested for purportedly inciting violence, Mr Abdul Malik Mohammed Ghazali, 27, maintains that he had "done nothing wrong" and that his statements on the Youth Olympic Games which were posted on social networking site Facebook were taken out of context.

The police confirmed in earlier media reports that they had arrested a man in his late 20s "in connection with investigations into offences related to incitement of violence".

Investigations are in progress.

Mr Abdul Malik (picture), a project executive with a construction company, was arrested on Tuesday, a week after his Facebook post.

He told MediaCorp in an email interview that he was picked up at his office by three police officers and taken to Bedok Police Station.

There, the officers grilled him on the use of the words "burn", "rally" and "sit-down protest" in his postings in which he allegedly said it was time to hold Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) Vivian Balakrishnan responsible for incidents including the food poisoning episode. MORE