Singapore opposition leader Pritam Singh appeals against conviction for lying to parliament

The Workers’ Party chief was in February found guilty of two counts of giving false testimonies to a parliamentary committee and fined

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Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh leaves the Supreme Court in Singapore on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

Published: 10:00am, 4 Nov 2025Updated: 7:59pm, 4 Nov 2025

Singapore’s Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh on Tuesday launched an appeal against a conviction for lying under oath to a parliamentary committee, for which he was fined S$14,000 (US$10,735).

In February, the Workers’ Party (WP) chief, 49, was found guilty of two counts of giving false testimony to a committee scrutinising a lie told by Raeesah Khan, a former member of parliament for the party.

Singh, who pleaded not guilty, received the maximum fine of S$7,000 for each charge following a 13-day trial.

On Tuesday, he arrived at the Supreme Court, dressed in a blue shirt, to appeal his case before a packed courtroom and Justice Steven Chong, who will deliver the judgment at a later date.

In a similar line of argument from the trial, Singh’s lawyer Andre Jumabhoy said the trial judge had erred in finding Khan’s evidence “unusually convincing”.

The criminal case against Singh stemmed from lies Khan told to parliament in August – and doubled down on in October 2021 – about accompanying a rape victim to a police station. Khan later revealed in parliament that the anecdote was false and that she had separately been a victim of sexual assault.

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