Singapore’s graffiti-free streets and carefully maintained public spaces may be the envy of urban planners everywhere but they have proved an open invitation for the “Sticker Lady”.
A young female artist – whose name has not been officially revealed – has energized Singapore’s small but growing blogosphere after her arrest for allegedly plastering black circular stickers on traffic lights and stenciling phrases on street tarmac.
Normally such acts risk contravening Singapore’s vandalism law, where a conviction carries a sentence of up to three years, a fine and strokes of the cane.
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But Sticker Lady has been released on police bail pending “further investigations”, according to a police spokesman. An online petition calling for the woman to have her charge reduced from vandalism to “public nuisance” has been gathering momentum.
Her case comes as Singapore’s ruling People’s Action party has become more sensitive to public opinion since its worst ever result in a general election last year.
The party has been at pains to demonstrate that it is tackling rising housing costs, a growing gap between rich and poor and rising immigration, which officials acknowledge has created friction with native Singaporeans. Full story...
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A young female artist – whose name has not been officially revealed – has energized Singapore’s small but growing blogosphere after her arrest for allegedly plastering black circular stickers on traffic lights and stenciling phrases on street tarmac.
Normally such acts risk contravening Singapore’s vandalism law, where a conviction carries a sentence of up to three years, a fine and strokes of the cane.
(...)
But Sticker Lady has been released on police bail pending “further investigations”, according to a police spokesman. An online petition calling for the woman to have her charge reduced from vandalism to “public nuisance” has been gathering momentum.
Her case comes as Singapore’s ruling People’s Action party has become more sensitive to public opinion since its worst ever result in a general election last year.
The party has been at pains to demonstrate that it is tackling rising housing costs, a growing gap between rich and poor and rising immigration, which officials acknowledge has created friction with native Singaporeans. Full story...
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