On Friday, Singapore puts two men behind bars for making racist remarks over the Internet against minority Malays.

The city-state's administration has invoked sedition laws inherited from British colonial rule. Twenty-seven-year-old Benjamin Koh has been sentenced to a month in prison, while 25-year-old Nicholas Lim was fined, and jailed for one day.

Both men posted comments on their personal websites or blogs attacking the mostly-Muslim ethnic Malay community in Singapore.

Koh posted objectionable comments against Islam's holy site of Mecca in his online journal.