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Gong Xi Fa Cai! (We, The Citizens)

Gong Xi Fa Cai! This week, a quick one before the Lunar New Year break! Kirsten Han. 21 Jan 2023 โ€” 3 min read. I'd initially intended to skip this weekend's wrap and have a break for the Lunar New Year, but decided at the last minute (read: 1am) that I ...

I know people who used to work at HOME and people who still work at HOME and they've done amazing work for migrant labour rights for so many years, so it's very awful that something like this has happened, but it doesn't shake my faith in the overall work that HOME does. It's been boggling my mind for months that the case has even been able to get this far without these questions being answered. In fact, they're also questions that M Ravi, who had previously been acting for the prisoners, had asked when he'd filed interrogatories โ€” only that application had been chucked out by a lower court (and Ravi asked to pay costs to boot). - Did the officers at the AGC involved in court proceedings involving any of the 13 prisoners request any of these documents from the prisons. I spent far too much time in the Court of Appeal last year, taking notes and bearing witness to terrible news, so I'd been a little nervous and apprehensive about what would be in store. [the 13th has already had his death sentence set aside](https://www.wethecitizens.net/singapore-escapes-a-wrongful-execution/) โ€” in relation to their civil suit against the Attorney-General's Chambers over the leaking of their private correspondence.

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