Singapore — Controversial figure Iris Koh announced on Feb 11 that she is writing a book about her recent time in police custody.
The leader of Healing the Divide, a group against Covid-19 vaccine mandates, was arrested and placed in police remand on Jan 23. She was released on bail on Feb 4.
Koh is currently facing two charges. On Jan 28, Koh was charged with conspiring with a doctor, Jipson Quah, to defraud the Health Ministry by having certain people certified to have received the Sinopharm vaccinations when they had not.
On Feb 4, she was charged with obstructing a police inspector from discharging her duties. She allegedly tore up a printed copy of her statement, which had been recorded on Jan 25 at the Police Cantonment Complex.
Additionally, Koh is being investigated for allegedly flooding the hotlines of some government agencies, including the MOH, as well as endeavouring to disrupt operations at paediatric vaccination centres.
Koh spoke at some length about how she was treated by the police while in remand in a Feb 8 video where she was fundraising for her legal fees but subsequently took the video down.
She explained in a later post that she was told by the Attorney-General’s Chambers that her video “got some issue on mentioning some factual matters which happened in the course of investigations, so I will be removing it to comply”.
And in her latest—and quite dramatic—Facebook post, Koh announced she’s writing a book about her experiences in remand.
“I’m in the process of writing my book Into The Lion’s Den. How I survived 15 days in Police Remand.
The book will document what I went through and how ordinary citizens can be educated about their rights while in remand when they face police officers for investigations etc. I believe it will be an important document for those fighting for Social Justice in Singapore.
If anything were to happen to me, this book can be released immediately or once when everything is over / settled.”
In her Feb 8 video, she said she was fighting “for the truth” and in her latest Facebook post she claimed that she is “fighting for medical freedom for Singapore.”
In the same dramatic vein, she added, “This work is for God, for all citizens regardless of vaccination statuses and for all children and all unborn children of the world.
God is with us and justice will prevail. I have faith in the good police and good judges of our country.
Thank you all.”
By Feb 9, Koh provided an update on her fundraising efforts, writing that $48,840.78 had come in from 280 donors, including one person who is said to have contributed $4,000.
However, since then, Koh has not provided an update. She had said in her original video, “I hope to raise any initial fee of one hundred thousand for legal purposes, and I hope that you can support me with this,” she said in her video.
Healing the Divide claims to be made up of “intelligent vaxxers,” but the Ministry of Health had issued public warnings about the group, since November last year. The ministry said the group “adopts an anti-vaccination stance and claims to warn people about the dangers of vaccination,” calling them out for falsehoods regarding Covid-19. /TISG