Singapore's Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam criticized foreign media for viewing deported blogger Amos Yee as a free-speech icon. Shanmugam warned that Yee, a convicted sex offender, is being misrepresented by rights advocates.

Singapore’s Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam has said he wished the United States had kept controversial blogger and child sex convict Amos Yee, warning that foreign media and rights advocates have mistaken a repeat offender, who was deported back to the city state, for a free-speech icon. Yee, who is listed on a US Department of Homeland Security website as among the “worst of the worst criminal aliens” the Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested, was deported from the US on March 19...