SINGAPORE — A woman who made headlines for her behaviour during the trial of a fellow anti-masker was convicted by a court
Lee Hui Yin, now known as Tarchandi Tan after changing her name last year, was convicted of five charges on July 10.
Glynn was given six weeks' jail in August 2021 for his offences which included not wearing a mask, and deported.When police officers went to Tan's flat in August 2022 to deliver a notice requiring her to head to a police station, Tan shut the door on them. She then returned a notice that was sent to her by registered post to the police, with these words on the envelope:"Return to sender, No such person".
The officer sent her a reminder to turn up at Police Cantonment Complex on Aug 31, 2022, otherwise a warrant of arrest would be issued against her. She also said she could be said to have committed a crime only if she had"wilfully harmed or violated someone or someone's property without consent".After Tan failed to show up in court, the district judge issued a warrant to arrest her, and four police officers turned up at her flat on Nov 10, 2022 to do so.
He said this argument has its roots in the United States. US proponents believe that the US Federal Government has no inherent power over individual citizens of the various states without their individual consent. "Under our system of government, parliament makes laws that all persons in Singapore must obey, the executive can exercise coercive powers provided by statutes, and the judiciary is the sole body empowered to make binding interpretations on the scope of these laws and powers. The sovereign individual argument ignores this legal position — a position that has been established for almost six decades since Singapore's independence and has never been in doubt.
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