The estranged brother of former Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said he has been given political asylum by the UK government on grounds of a “well-founded fear” of persecution.
Lee Hsien Yang, 67, said in a Facebook post he had become a “political refugee” as he and his late sister “feared the abuse of the organs of the Singapore state against us” after a very public feud over the fate of a home that belonged to their father and the country’s first leader Lee Kuan Yew. Lee Hsien Yang said he applied for asylum back in 2022.