A Filipino nurse who insulted Singaporeans online and called for the takeover of the city-state pleaded guilty to one charge of sedition and two counts of providing false information to the police, on Wednesday, August 26, ChannelNews Asia reported. Ello Ed Mundsel Bello, known as “Edz Ello” on Facebook, was fired from his job at the government-run Tan Tock Seng Hospital in January after internal investigations revealed a series of social media posts which were deemed offensive. The 28-year-old Bello was arrested last April. Under the Sedition Act, among other things, it is an offense to promote hostility between different races or classes in multiracial Singapore, which is mainly ethnic Chinese. Bello will be sentenced on September 16.
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