{"id":19737,"date":"2019-03-11T21:16:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19737"},"modified":"2019-03-11T21:16:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:16:10","slug":"19737","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/11\/19737\/","title":{"rendered":"Singaporean doc to be jailed 2 years after losing appeal"},"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=\"media-group fadecount0\">\n<div class=\"media-entity\">\n<div class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-image_with_captions  clearfix\">\n<figure class=\"group-image-frame field-group-html-element\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_pictrure_780x520_\/public\/articles\/2019\/03\/12\/ST_20190312_VNLER_4685048.jpg?itok=tlJYnptp&amp;timestamp=1552323007\" alt=\"Ler Teck Siang arriving at the High Court yesterday. The judge rejected his explanations, saying they were &quot;creative but baseless and, in part, illogical&quot;.\" \/><figcaption class=\"group-image-caption field-group-html-element\"><span class=\"caption-text\">Ler Teck Siang arriving at the High Court yesterday. The judge rejected his explanations, saying they were &#8220;creative but baseless and, in part, illogical&#8221;.<\/span><span class=\"caption-credit\"><span class=\"caption-credit\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">ST PHOTO: KHALID BABA<\/span><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media-group fadecount0\">\n<div class=\"media-entity\">\n<div class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-image_with_captions  clearfix\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group-story-timestamp field-group-html-element\">\n<div class=\"story-postdate\">\n<p>The Singaporean doctor whose American partner is at the centre of the HIV Registry leak lost his appeal yesterday against his conviction and two-year jail sentence for helping his partner dupe the authorities into issuing him a pass to work in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Arguing his own case, Ler Teck Siang, 37, sought to disavow two statements he gave to the police in which he confessed to submitting his own blood in place of that of HIV-positive Mikhy Farrera-Brochez to pass medical tests.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/singaporean-doc-to-be-jailed-2-years-after-losing-appeal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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>Ler Teck Siang arriving at the High Court yesterday. The judge rejected his explanations, saying they were &#8220;creative but baseless and, in&#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-19737","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\/19737","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=19737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}