新湖畔网 （随信APP) | 新加坡创始人的儿子获得英国庇护

李显扬自2022年以来一直在自我放逐中生活- 版权AFP/File ROSLAN RAHMAN

新加坡开国领袖李光耀的最小儿子表示，他因在家乡受迫害而获得英国庇护，在那里，一场激烈的家庭纷争围绕一场房产纠纷激烈展开。

李显扬在周二的一篇Facebook帖子中表示，他在2022年寻求庇护是“最后的手段”，因为政府对他发起了攻击。

67岁的李显扬写道：“我是根据1951年联合国难民公约的新加坡政治难民。”

“我面临着受迫害的明显风险，无法安全地回到新加坡。”

李家是新加坡最接近王室的存在，他们就是应该拆除还是保留单层别墅展开争论，引起了头条新闻和八卦。

李显扬和他的姐妹想要拆除承办人民行动党组织的平房，这个党自1959年以来一直统治新加坡。

他们的哥哥，前总理李显龙，想要保留这处房产，这促使他的兄弟姐妹指责他试图利用父亲的遗产谋取政治利益。

在住在争议房产的李锴玲于10月9日死于疾病后，李显扬表示他感到不安全回到新加坡参加她的葬礼。

他说有“风险”，他的兄弟会利用“新加坡政府的机构”对付他。

“新加坡政府对我的攻击是公开记录。他们起诉了我的儿子，对我的妻子提起了纪律审查，并发起了一场拖延多年的虚假警方调查。”他在最新的Facebook帖子中写道。

“我仍然是新加坡公民，希望有一天能够安全地回家，”他补充道。

新加坡政府表示，年轻的李的受迫害指控毫无根据，他和他的妻子可以随时自由返回新加坡。

在被问及庇护申请时，英国内政部发言人告诉法新社：“长期以来，我们政府的政策是不评论个别案例。”

李家的纷争于2017年公开化，即其父亲去世两年后，被视为将新加坡这个前英国殖民地转变为一个富裕的金融中心的功臣。

争端中心的房产是开国总理李从1940年代中期直至去世的住所。

李显龙，曾连任两个十年的总理，于五月卸任，仍为执政党人民行动党的秘书长，是他的继任者内阁的高级部长。

一个负责研究该别墅选择的委员会于2018年表示，这处房产具有“建筑、历史和文物意义”。

Lee Hsien Yang has been living in self-exile since 2022 - Copyright AFP/File ROSLAN RAHMAN

The youngest son of Singapore’s founding leader Lee Kuan Yew said he was granted asylum in Britain due to persecution at home, where a bitter family feud rages over a property dispute.

Lee Hsien Yang said in a Facebook post on Tuesday that he sought asylum in 2022 “as a last resort” from government attacks against him.

“I am a political refugee from Singapore under the 1951 UN Refugee Convention,” Lee, 67, wrote.

“I face a well-founded risk of persecution and cannot safely return to Singapore.”

The Lees are the closest thing Singapore has to royalty, and their battle over whether to demolish or preserve the single-story house has generated headlines and gossip.

Lee Hsien Yang and his sister wanted to demolish the bungalow that hosted the formation of the People’s Action Party (PAP), which has governed Singapore since 1959.

Their older brother, former premier Lee Hsien Loong, wanted to preserve the property, which prompted his siblings to accuse him of trying to exploit their father’s legacy for political gain.

After Lee Wei Ling, who was living at the disputed property, died of an illness on October 9, Lee Hsien Yang had said he felt unsafe to return to Singapore for her funeral.

He said there was a “risk” that his brother would wield “the organs of the Singapore state” against him.

“The Singapore government’s attacks against me are in the public record. They prosecuted my son, brought disciplinary proceedings against my wife, and launched a bogus police investigation that has dragged on for years,” he wrote in his latest Facebook post.

“I remain a Singapore citizen and hope that someday it will become safe to return home,” he added.

The Singapore government has said that the younger Lee’s allegations of persecution are without basis and that he and his wife are free to return to Singapore at any time.

When asked about the asylum claim, a UK Home Office spokesperson told AFP: “It is longstanding government policy that we do not comment on individual cases.”

The Lee family feud became public in 2017, two years after the death of their father, who is credited with transforming the former British colony into a wealthy financial hub.

The property at the centre of the row was the home of founding premier Lee from the mid-1940s until his death.

Lee Hsien Loong, who was prime minister for two decades before stepping down in May, remains the secretary-general of the governing PAP and is a senior minister in the cabinet of his successor.

A ministerial committee tasked with looking at options for the bungalow said in 2018 that the property has “architectural, heritage and historical significance”.