Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Singapore teen blogger Amos Yee walks free in US...

Singaporean teen blogger Amos Yee was released from US detention Tuesday after a court upheld a decision to grant him asylum.

Photos showed Yee, who has been jailed twice in native Singapore for critical views on race and religion, leaving a US immigration facility in downtown Chicago with a friend and his belongings stuffed in a plastic bag.
A photo posted on his Facebook page was captioned: "Amos Yee is now a free man."

"I'm kind of stunned right now," he told the Chicago Tribune. "It's very surreal."

In a statement posted on Facebook earlier Tuesday, his law firm said that a panel had upheld the decision on March 24 to grant asylum to Yee and he would soon be released. Full story...

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