Activist Gilbert Goh is currently being investigated by the police for partaking in a public assembly without a permit after holding up a placard outside the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) building.
The placard read, “Please ban all flights from India we are not racist! Just being cautious”, referencing the astronomical spike in the number of daily cases in the South Asian nation and the discovery of a highly infectious COVID-19 strain with double mutations originating from the country.
Above copied from TOC.
Gilbert now under police investigation for holding a one man public assembly with a placard, without police permit. He would need a police permit to carry that placard or else it would be illegal, a public assembly.
What was he protesting, or what was his message? Ban all flights from India because of the Covid19 crisis there. This event was on 1 May. Think the govt already announced the ban, or is it? Why is Gilbert still protesting if the ban is already in force? Cannot be that the ban is not be in force right?
Still puzzling, did Singapore ban all flights from India?
Anyway, Gilbert is keeping the police busy for this protest.
PS. A commenter posted this.
'However several commenters criticised his decision to only call for a ban against those travelling from India.
“No one was holding up signs asking for travel bans from the US. No one was striking a pose with signs rallying against travel from London,” one commenter said.'
Singapore is a democratic country. Singapore is a rule by law country. Every law must be obeyed to the t.
Below is quoted from TOC
No pre-departure PCR test needed
Presently, not all travellers arriving in Singapore need to take a pre-departure Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test in the country they travelled from (‘ICA officer infects 7 family members with COVID-19; No pre-departure test needed for SC/PR‘).
According to ICA website, no approvals or inbound pre-departure COVID-19 PCR Test is required for entry into Singapore for Singapore citizen and PR.
“There is also no need for returning SC/PRs to take an inbound PCR test within 72 hours before arrival in Singapore,” ICA said.
Indeed, a PR recently arrived from India confirmed this. He said he did not need to take any pre-departure PCR Test for COVID-19, before arriving in Singapore through Air India.