Singapore slams Li Shengwu over New York Times’ ‘How Tyranny Begins’ video
The grandson of Singapore’s founding PM Lee Kuan Yew appears in the video along with three others from Russia, Nicaragua and Hungary

The opinion video, titled How Tyranny Begins, was circulated on social media platforms and forums soon after its publication last Wednesday.
The speakers discussed how Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Hungary and Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega had consolidated absolute power.
For his part in the video, Li says tyranny starts not with the “stuffing of ballot boxes” but with “retribution”, accusing Senior Minister Lee of using police and criminal prosecution to “dispose of or exile his opponents”.
Li also recounts that he was given a fine over a social media post that was shared only with friends. “I fled the country as soon as I could,” Li says in the clip.
