PROSECUTION UNDER PENAL CODE
Parliament of Singapore · 22 May 2007
Official Report, 22 May 2007, Vol 83, Issue 6 · Open in the reader (summaries, search, filters)
PROSECUTION UNDER PENAL CODE
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(Punishment for unlawful assembly): **
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Mr Siew Kum Hong asked the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs for each of the last ten years (a) how many convictions were there for offences under section 143 of the Penal Code; and (b) of these, how many were sentenced to imprisonment and how many were sentenced to five or more months of imprisonment.
Mr Wong Kan Seng: The number of persons convicted, imprisoned and those who were sentenced to five months' imprisonment or more under section 143 (Punishment for unlawful assembly) of the Penal Code, for the last 10 years (1997 to 2006), is provided in the table below.
** No. of persons convicted, imprisoned and sentenced to 5 months imprisonment or more under section 143 of the Penal Code **
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1997: |
1998: |
1999: |
2000: |
2001: |
2002: |
2003: |
2004: |
2005: |
2006: ---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---
No. of persons convicted: |
571
|
453
|
486
|
254
|
217
|
242
|
347
|
295
|
234
|
272
Imprisoned: |
121
|
123
|
128
|
113
|
86
|
128
|
146
|
97
|
72
|
92
5 months imprisonment or more: |
24
|
8
|
3
|
15
|
18
|
24
|
30
|
21
|
11
|
3
Column: 969
Source: Singapore Parliament Official Report (Hansard) for 22 May 2007. Republished on SGParliament.