Lee Hsien Yang, the younger brother of Singapore’s former Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, has declared himself a “political refugee from Singapore” under the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention after seeking “asylum protection” from the UK in 2022. He said that. Founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew was at odds with his brother in 2017 when his younger brother Lee Hsien Yang, 67, and late sister Lee Wei Ling claimed that the then prime minister had abused his power. They have been estranged since the announcement. He abandons his efforts to demolish the family bungalow in accordance with his father’s wishes.
In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Lee Hsien Yang recalled that in 2017, he and his sister wrote in a statement that they did not trust Lee Hsien Loong as a brother or a leader.
“We said we were concerned that the organs of the Singaporean state would be misused against us and my family. Because of that risk, I will not be able to attend Wei Ling’s funeral. “I did,” Lee Hsien Yang said.
Li Weilin passed away on October 9 at the age of 69, four years after being diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare degenerative brain disease.
The Oxley Road residence of the late former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Photo: Reuters
In his latest Facebook post on Tuesday, Lee Hsien Yang said he sought asylum protection in 2022 due to “the Singapore government’s attacks on (him)”.
