Lee Hsien Yang

In a Facebook post, Lee Hsien Yang says his family has been persecuted over standing up for his father's wish to demolish Oxley Road House.

Mr Lee Hsien Yang said he is glad they did as it’s somewhere his sister had always wanted to visit. “These attacks intensified with the bringing of abusive and meritless legal proceedings. “I have now been condemned in Parliament and in the press without due process,” he wrote. Yet again, Hsien Loong misused state resources to pursue his private agenda.” Mr Lee Hsien Yang went on to share that with the “persecution” he endured for standing up for his father came the realisation that he had been living in a “cocoon”. [Lee Hsien Yang & Wife Under Investigation For Providing False Evidence, Didn’t Attend Police Interview] If he and his sister had remained silent and let PM Lee “rewrite history”, he mused, they could have gone on to “lead peaceful and comfortable lives”. “Wei Ling and I originally believed, in 2017, that Singapore had checks and balances and rule of law,” said Mr Lee Hsien Yang. The latest “attack”, Mr Lee Hsien Yang said, relitigates “the same issues” that PM Lee had raised after the probate of Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s will. Mr Lee Hsien Yang said his brother had “opposed” their father’s instructions to demolish the Oxley Road house. In his post, Mr Lee Hsien Yang lamented about how he has “been made a fugitive by [his] own country” simply “for standing up for a promise to [his] father”. In a highly simplified nutshell, he and Dr Lee Wei Ling want to honour Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s wishes to demolish the house, while PM Lee — in Mr Lee Hsien Yang’s words — “[seeks] ever to undermine [their] father’s last will on the issue” by preserving it.

Lee Hsien Yang, the younger brother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, has implied that he is never returning to Singapore.

LHY wrote, “I am heartbroken that my own country has made me a fugitive for standing up for my father's promise, Lee Kuan Yew.” This follows a recent spate of ...

[Bloomberg News](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-03/singapore-pm-s-estranged-brother-weighs-running-for-president), LHY revealed his intentions to run for the presidency, saying that “a lot of people have come to me. In a final note, LHY expressed his gratitude to his family and supporters who have stood by him and thanked them for their unwavering support. LHY also revealed that he and his family have been subjected to a campaign of harassment, surveillance, and smear campaigns. “No mere material calculation could outweigh the risk to our reputations and our place in society.” However, the ongoing investigation may affect his candidacy. He mentioned his sister Wei Ling’s serious illness and the campaign of harassment and surveillance they have faced. LHY was convinced by his sister, whom he described as forthright, principled, and courageous, to stand up for their parents. She is now extremely unwell, and it pains me beyond words that I am unlikely ever to be able to see my sister face to face again,” he wrote. I have now been condemned in Parliament and the press without due process.” After a three-year court case, Shengwu LHY accused LHL and his team of seeking to undermine their father’s last will on the issue of the demolition of their father’s house. Lee Hsien Yang (LHY) expressed his disappointment with the state of affairs in Singapore and how he and his family have been attacked by the government led by his older brother, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (LHL), in a Facebook post.

Lee Hsien Yang, the younger brother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and second son of founding Prime Minister the late Lee Kuan Yew, said on Tuesday that ...

Among the differences was a demolition clause – relating to the demolition of his 38 Oxley Road house after his death – which had not been in the sixth or penultimate will but was in the last. Lee, 64, had been referred to a disciplinary tribunal by the Law Society over her role in the preparation and execution of the last will, which differed from his sixth and penultimate will in significant ways, and did not contain some changes he had wanted and discussed with his lawyer, Kwa Kim Li, days earlier. In 2020, the court of three judges and a disciplinary tribunal found that the couple had lied under oath during disciplinary proceedings against Mrs Lee, a lawyer, over her handling of the last will of Lee Kuan Yew, who died on March 23, 2015, at the age of 91.

Lee Hsien Yang, the younger brother of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and second son of founding Prime Minister the late Lee Kuan Yew, ...

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He said, “I am heart-broken that I have been made a fugitive by my own country, for standing up for a promise to my father, Lee Kuan Yew.”

He knew that if his sister and him had just remained silent, life would have probably been much easier and peaceful but he “spoke up to keep a promise to our father.” However, he said they would not accept “the continued pretence that he had changed his mind”, referring to their brother’s actions. This was evident in speeches he made, in his book “Hard Truths”, and even in a video recorded before his death, according to Lee Hsien Yang. She was diagnosed with a serious illness in 2019 but he was happy to have brought her to visit Machu Picchu – a place she had always wanted to go to – when Covid-19 restrictions were lifted. “I belonged to ‘the family’ but had not been involved in any way in politics. The family drama is focused on the former residence of former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew and his children’s conflict over its future use and demolition.

The estranged younger brother of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said he has effectively self-exiled in Europe and is "unlikely to return to ...

"Part of the problem with the presidential election is they made the rules so tight (that) actually very few people are qualified to run," he said. The disagreement erupted soon after the death in 2015 of their father who had served as prime minister for some three decades and is revered and credited for the role he played in the Singapore success story. "What's sad is I think as a result of this, I'm unlikely to return to Singapore, at least for the foreseeable future," he said. He has rejected the accusations. I prefer not to identify more clearly where I am," he said in the 45-minute interview. The estranged younger brother of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said he has effectively self-exiled in Europe and is "unlikely to return to Singapore" due to fear of political persecution.

It might have started years ago, but the fight for the fate of former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew's home in Oxley Road has not ceased.

Mr Lee Kuan Yew and his wife, Madam Kwa Geok Choo, at their home at Oxley Road with their three children, (from left) sons Hsien Loong and Hsien Yang and ...

If my sister and I had stayed silent—if we had let Hsien Loong rewrite history—we would have continued to lead peaceful and comfortable lives as part of the Singapore establishment. I have gained much from being part of the Singapore system, and lost much by trying to honour my father’s dying wish. I lived in a sheltered ignorance of the real Singapore, the lives and struggles of the man in the street or in that one room HDB rental flat, the wrongful persecutions of persons who were only trying to do good, whether they be caring persons in civil society, lawyers and others who were prepared to assist underdogs, or politicians who have lost much and sacrificed much because they stood for their principles, because they loved Singapore and our people. We have been the subject of a concerted and vindictive pattern of persecution orchestrated under a system led by my own elder brother, an escalation of the very abuse of power that Wei Ling and I raised in 2017. Even so, I did not fully foresee the costs that speaking up would impose on my wife and children. We questioned “What has happened to the values of Lee Kuan Yew?” thinking that there were still men and women of integrity in the PAP [People’s Action Party], people who would speak truth to power, to put a stop to abuses of power by Hsien Loong and his wife. I was so glad that just before Covid in 2020, I was able to take her to Machu Picchu, a place she had always wanted to visit. Wei Ling and I originally believed, in 2017, that Singapore had checks and balances and rule of law. Both of us have always accepted that the Singapore government has the power to preserve our father’s house, but we reject the continued pretence that he had changed his mind, that he was somehow ‘ok’ with it. The party’s reaction was to convene a special session of Parliament to attack us. Yet another attack has just been launched, re-litigating over again the same issues that were raised by Lee Hsien Loong after probate of Lee Kuan Yew’s will, at the ministerial committee in 2016/2017, in Parliament in 2017, and in disciplinary proceedings in 2019/2020. If Lee Hsien Loong and his government wish to preserve our father’s home, then they should do so acknowledging that they preserve it against Lee Kuan Yew’s earnest wishes.

Singapore, Mar 8: Lee Hsien Yang, the younger brother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and second son of founding Prime Minister the late Lee Kuan Yew, ...

Singapore, Mar 8: Lee Hsien Yang, the younger brother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and second son of founding Prime Minister the late Lee Kuan Yew, said on Tuesday that he may never return to Singapore amid an ongoing police investigation into him and his wife, Lee Suet Fern. Among the differences was a demolition clause – relating to the demolition of his 38 Oxley Road house after his death – which had not been in the sixth or penultimate will but was in the last. In 2020, the court of three judges and a disciplinary tribunal found that the couple had lied under oath during disciplinary proceedings against Mrs Lee, a lawyer, over her handling of the last will of Lee Kuan Yew, who died on March 23, 2015, at the age of 91.