Amos Yee Pang Sang (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Yú Péngshan; Wade–Giles: Yü2 P'eng2 Shan1; Jyutping: jyu4 paang1 saam1, born 31 October 1998) is a Singaporean blogger, former YouTube personality and former child actor.In late March 2015, shortly after the death of the first Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, Yee uploaded a video on YouTube criticizing Lee.
In the video, Yee compared Lee to Jesus, and cast both in an obscene and disrespectful light.
Yee also uploaded to his blog an image depicting Lee and Margaret Thatcher engaged in anal sex.
Altogether, 32 police reports were made against Yee and he was arrested in Singapore and charged with "intention of wounding the religious feelings of Christians", obscenity, and "threatening, abusive or insulting communication."
Yee's trial drew significant public interest and the court found him guilty in May 2015, meting a jail sentence of four weeks which was backdated to include 53 days served in remand, freeing Yee immediately following the trial.
Yee appealed against both the court conviction and sentence.
Yee's imprisonment drew criticism from human rights organisations, including Amnesty International, which considered Yee to be a “prisoner of conscience.”In December 2016, Yee fled to the United States just before his call-up for National Service, immediately seeking political asylum.
It was granted in March 2017 by the Chicago immigration court, despite being opposed by the U.S.
government, which appealed the decision, causing Yee to be held in detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the appeal process.
Following an immigration appeals court's decision to uphold his bid for asylum, Yee was released in September 2017.In November 2017, Yee again drew notoriety for his strong pedophilia through his videos and blog posts.
In May 2018, Yee's channel was removed by YouTube for violating community guidelines and Twitter suspended his account.
In July 2018, Yee's Patreon account was shut down.
As of December 2018, Yee's WordPress blog, personal Facebook page, and pro-pedophile Discord server entitled the "Ball Pit" were shut down.Melissa Chen, a human rights activist who played a key role in helping Amos gain asylum in the US, made a nearly 10-minute video in December 2018 denouncing his views and moves on pedophilia and now wants him deported from US.