Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai are all places that practice extreme police/state overreach unacceptable by western standards. I don't consider a city that will have a person flogged for littering a safe place.

You will not get flogged for littering in any of those, although Singapore famously does have judicial caning for intentional vandalism. And unlike the US, you are extremely unlikely to get shot by the police.

Oh it's caning and only sometimes, well then that's absolutely fine.

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No it isn't. Absolutely not. No way. Never coming there. Damn this place. Doesn't matter what the offense has to be, it's never fine.

Do you think that each and every judgement of judicial caning was correct? That mistakes can't happen?

People will get up in arms over caning but throw 20 year olds in jail for 25 years.

"a city that will have a person flogged for littering"

Isn't this mostly a myth? You will get fined for littering in Singapore just like elsewhere, though their fines are higher and the police arguably enforces laws against littering more eagerly than in the West. Caning (not flogging) is reserved for more serious offences (IIRC the lightest one is vandalism.)

Dubai employs flogging, but for Shariah offences, not for littering.

Hong Kong doesn't use judicial corporeal punishment at all.

Yes. The normal punishment for littering in Singapore is a fine, while repeat offenders may get Corrective Work Orders, meaning having to pick trash off roads while wearing a yellow flouro vest saying so. Caning is not on the menu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrective_work_order

> Dubai ... practice extreme police/state overreach

Like all 'proper oldschool' conservative societies, in Dubai laws is applied only to the 'right people'.

For example extramarital sex is a crime, but if you open Tinder it's full of hookers.