SINGAPORE, Feb. 10 -- A Singaporean student radicalised by far-right extremist ideologies and planning to attack Malays and Muslims has been detained under the republic's Internal Security Act (ISA), authorities said on Monday.
According to Channel News Asia, Nick Lee Xing Qiu, 18, identified as an "East Asian supremacist" and expressed intentions to harm Malays and Muslims in Singapore.
Singapore's Internal Security Department (ISD) said he was issued a detention order in December 2024 after consuming extremist online content and idolising the Christchurch mosque attacker, Brenton Tarrant.
"His attack aspirations included conducting a Tarrant-style attack on Muslims at a mosque in Singapore using homemade guns, knives and Molotov cockta...