ALAN Shadrake, a 75-year-old British author, was jailed for six weeks and fined S$20,000 on Tuesday for publishing a book critical of executions in Singapore.
Judge Quentin Loh dismissed a last-minute apology by Shadrake as 'nothing more than a tactical ploy in court to obtain a reduced sentence', and ruled that the freelance journalist will have to serve two more weeks in prison if he fails to pay the fine.
'A fine should be imposed to prevent Mr Shadrake from profiting from his contempt (of court),' the judge said.
The High Court delivered the verdict against Shadrake in connection with his book Once A Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice In The Dock, which was deemed to have insulted the Singaporean judiciary.
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