Chinese national Han Shiyu, 17, who appeared before District Judge Adam Nakhoda on Monday Dec 2 , is accused of insulting the year-old woman's modesty on Aug 12 this year. Its spokesman said: "The university takes a zero-tolerance approach towards harassment and takes all cases of misconduct involving harassment seriously. The NUS case created a stir after the victim, Ms Monica Baey, went public saying that the authorities did not do enough to punish a fellow student who filmed her showering.
Han was just one of several tertiary students who have been taken to court this year over the offence. For instance, on Oct 2, a year-old Singaporean man from a top university in Britain was charged with two counts of insulting a woman's modesty. He cannot be named owing to a gag order to protect the women's identities. The man is accused of placing video-recording devices to film the women showering at Orchard Hotel.
In another case, a year-old man is accused of taking upskirt videos of women and filming them showering in a local university. Separately, NUS student Joel Rasis Ismail, also 26, was taken to court on May 13 after he allegedly filmed his schoolmate showering on campus. For each count of insulting a woman's modesty, offenders can be jailed for up to a year and fined. We have been experiencing some problems with subscriber log-ins and apologise for the inconvenience caused.
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Skip to main content. Nanyang Technological University said the student was expelled in October. Shaffiq Alkhatib. He is said to have committed the offence at around 9.
