"posted around the closed station" - where's the break-in?
"The government [of Singapore] has broad powers to limit citizens' rights and to handicap political opposition, which it used. Caning is an allowable punishment for numerous offenses. The following human rights problems were reported: preventive detention, executive influence over the judiciary, infringement of citizens' privacy rights, restriction of speech and press freedom and the practice of self-censorship by journalists, restriction of freedom of assembly and freedom of association, some restriction of freedom of religion, and some trafficking in persons." - State Department, March 6, 2007 (http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78790.htm)
The station was closed.
Caning is an allowable punishment for numerous offenses.
Good.
preventive detention
In the US this is known as "civil commitment."
executive influence over the judiciary
In the US, the executive not only influences the federal judiciary, it directly appoints friends of the administration to the federal judiciary. Though I'm sure Sonia Sotomayor would never let her adoring love of President Obama influence her rulings.
infringement of citizens' privacy rights
In the US, we call them "warrantless wiretaps."
restriction of speech
In the US we call these "gag orders."
and press freedom
Too vague a claim to be meaningful. Preventing photography of returning war dead from Iraq was considered an infringement on "press freedom" here, for example.
the practice of self-censorship by journalists
Is that when the US press decides to report only good things about President Obama and only bad things about President Bush? Is that what is meant by "self-censorship"?
Should there be a law against not saying things you would like to say? How would it be enforced?
restriction of freedom of assembly and freedom of association
In the US these are called "free speech zones" and "parade permits."
some restriction of freedom of religion
That's incredibly vague, but it probably refers to the Singaporean government's refusal to allow mosques to use ear-splitting amplification for their calls to prayer and its forbidding of Muslims (and others, but only Muslims did this) to let their congregations spill out into the streets during worship.
and some trafficking in persons
Well, we know that no sex trafficking ever occurs in the United States at all, ever, because it's illegal here. It's also illegal in Singapore, but sometimes Singaporeans break this law, even though no American ever has.