{"id":19689,"date":"2019-03-11T10:40:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T10:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19689"},"modified":"2019-03-11T10:40:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T10:40:22","slug":"hiv-data-leak-high-court-judge-dismisses-appeal-by-ler-teck-siang-2-year-jail-sentence-to-start-on-march-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/11\/hiv-data-leak-high-court-judge-dismisses-appeal-by-ler-teck-siang-2-year-jail-sentence-to-start-on-march-21\/","title":{"rendered":"HIV data leak: High court judge dismisses appeal by Ler Teck Siang; 2-year jail sentence to start on March 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"Maw(100%) Pos(r) H(0)\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" StretchedBox W(100%) H(100%) ie-7_H(a)\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/BvoHcdFNAT1wFVdESk3ALg--~A\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAw\/http:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/homerun\/feed_manager_auto_publish_494\/f6f47228ab5a9663f070c786fa2ea692\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"Ov(h) Pos(r) Ff(ss) Mah(80px)\">\n<div class=\"figure-caption\">Former medical doctor Ler Teck Siang, whose American boyfriend Mikhy Farrera-Brochez is at the centre of the HIV data leak, pictured at the High Court on Monday, 11 March 2019. PHOTO: Dhany Osman\/Yahoo News Singapore<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Singaporean doctor whose partner is at the centre of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/data-of-14200-singapore-patients-with-hiv-leaked-online-by-american-fraudster-who-was\">HIV Registry leak<\/a>, lost his appeal on Monday (March 11) against his conviction and two-year jail sentence for helping the American dupe authorities into issuing him a pass to work here.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Chua Lee Ming, in dismissing Ler Teck Siang\u2019s appeal, said: \u201cYour arguments are creative but baselesss and in part, illogical.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/ler-teck-siang-the-doctor-in-hiv-registry-leak-incident-in-court-for-appeal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Former medical doctor Ler Teck Siang, whose American boyfriend Mikhy Farrera-Brochez is at the centre of the HIV data leak, pictured at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}