A British man is facing six-month prison sentence in Singapore after refusing to wear a mask while taking a train ride home after work.?
Benjamin Glynn, was put behind the bars for 28 hours before being given bail after a fellow commuter filmed him travelling without a mask and posted it on Facebook.??
Only hours later, Singapore police arrested Glynn at his home and charged him with a public nuisance offence.??
According to a report in Daily Mail,?Glynn thinks masks are pointless and fail to protect people from contracting COVID-19, and?so didn't wear one while taking the train home from work.
It was reported that he faces?up to six months behind bars, if found guilty.
After his arrest, his passport was confiscated, which meant he couldn't return to the UK as planned with his partner and two children.?
He also lost a new job he was due to start in the UK and fears he could have to spend as much as 12 months on bail before his trial.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, is assisting him.
"I had no idea anyone had even been filming, but it turned out a video of me unmasked on the late train home from work surfaced online.?The police obviously saw it and the next day they were at the door,"?Glynn was quoted as saying by Daily Mail.?
"I don't believe there is any evidence that masks protect you from Covid-19.?Normally I would just tell people I'm exempt and it had never posed any issues before.?But now I'm stuck here without my family and I don't even know when I will appear in court, never mind what my sentence will be," he added.?
Glynnhad been working for a Singapore branch of a British recruitment company since January 2017.
Weeks before he was due to return to the UK for a new job, he was filmed without a mask near Raffles Place, the financial district of Singapore, on May 7.
In Singapore, it is mandatory to wear a mask when residents leave their homes, with very few exceptions.
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