Singapore: Swiss national to be caned for train vandalism · Global Voices
Shawn Lim

On June 25th 2010, Oliver Fricker, 32, was sentenced to three strokes of the cane and five months in prison after he pleaded guilty to breaking into a Singapore train depot last month and vandalism for spraying the words “McKoy Banos” across two carriages (a video of the graffiti has been widely shared in blogs and forums).
He was accompanied at the time by with a man identified as Lloyd Dane Alexander, a Briton, who was in Singapore for just three days, according to the prosecution. Singapore has sought the extradition of Alexander, who it said was last believed to be in Hong Kong.
Legal and analysis blogger, Right Juris, wrote that foreigners should abide by the rules of the country they are in:
Singaporean socio-political blogger, Kristen Han, denounced the sentence as ‘completely sickening’ and labelled Singapore a ‘Global Torture Hub’ :
Singaporean blogger, Roger Poh, called the caning ‘demeaning and barbaric’, and also slammed Singapore's aspirations to be a kinder and caring society: