SINGAPORE, Dec 4: Singapore’s Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh on Thursday lost his appeal against his conviction for lying to a parliamentary privileges committee. The 49-year-old Indian-origin secretary-general of the Workers’ Party (WP) was convicted in February in connection with the case involving former party member Raeesah Khan, who had admitted to making untruthful statements in Parliament. Khan later resigned from Parliament. High Court judge Steven Chong on Thursday upheld the district court’s decision to convict Singh. Singh was fined the maximum SGD 7,000 (USD 5,400) for each of the two charges. The fines, imposed separately, remained below the SGD 10,000 threshold that would have disqualified him from contesting this year’s general election held on May 3. Reactin

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