2020 was a great year… for viruses and misinformation.
Social media and messaging platforms have been rife with lies and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic, with some untruths more harmful than others.
Not too long ago, the Ministry of Health (MOH) brought attention to an online community called Healing the Divide, which it said has a history of posting and sharing content that perpetuates falsehoods and misleading information about COVID-19 and vaccines.
It was for this reason that YouTube allegedly removed its content from the platform, something which MOH “welcomed”.
In her response to MOH’s statement, Ms Irish Koh, the founder of the group, said her community “reserves the rights to take legal action for the potential defamatory remarks made in the MOH press release”.
And now, that’s exactly what she’s doing.
M Ravi Representing Founder of ‘Healing the Divide’ to Sue the S’pore Gov
Ms Koh has engaged a lawyer, M Ravi, to sue the government for violating her human rights.
The move was announced by Mr Ravi himself in a Facebook post on Saturday (13 Nov) night.
Mr Ravi said he is initiating legal proceedings under instruction from Ms Koh to “restrain the state from further human rights violations via the Covid 19 inhumane, life threatening , degrading and oppressive measures that violate our fundamental guarantees to right to life and liberty under Article 9 and various other articles of the constitution.”
Article 9 of the constitution deals with fundamental liberties, including one clause which reads: “No person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty save in accordance with law.”
“I have known Iris as a friend for more than 20 years,” Mr Ravi said.
“For the record, i’m doing this probono for the people of Singapore whom i dearly love and for humanity as a whole here and elsewhere.”
Pro bono means that Ms Koh won’t need to pay Mr Ravi for the services rendered.
What Happened
It all started with a statement from the health ministry on 7 Nov 2021, in which it noted the removal of Healing the Divide’s content from YouTube.
In addition to saying it welcomed the removal, MOH said the community adopts an “anti-vaccination stance and claims to warn people about the dangers of vaccination.”
Ms Koh lashed back with a statement of her own that same day, saying her community is not made up of anti-vaxxers but “intelligent vaxxers”.
“I mean who wants to be highlighted in the media every few weeks for being an Anti-Vaxxer? Let’s be clear. We are not here to oppose the government etc. We only want to protect ourselves, our children and our loved ones. Is this wrong?” she wrote.
She said her group has many people who are vaccinated, and claims they joined because they “either suffered from injuries after taking the vaccines, or have loved ones who died after taking the vaccine.”
Other concerns raised in the group include potential job losses which could arise if members don’t get jabbed.
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