Indian-Origin Rapper Lands in Jail in Singapore For Racist Online Posts

A court in Singapore on Tuesday sentenced Subhas Nair, an Indian-origin Singaporean rapper, to a six-week jail term for attempting to promote ill will among racial and religious groups through online posts.

He was found guilty on July 23 this year over the online comments comparing races and religions that he posted between July 2019 and March 2021.

One of the four charges that Nair was convicted of related to a July 29, 2019, YouTube video wherein he and his sister, Preeti Nair, known as Preetipls, performed a song having racist lyrics.

He was given a two-year conditional warning by the police over this, but he again posted comments on social media that were deemed offensive.

Nair and his sister have been known to ruffle feathers through their songs and posts. Earlier in May 2022, in an interview with Al Jazeera, Nair had said he stood up for his community and as a rapper, his role was “to speak truth to power – not just for my people, but for all of us who are living under capitalism and this authoritarian regime.