SINGAPORE, March 23 — Ai Takagi, one of the two editors behind the now-defunct sociopolitical website The Real Singapore (TRS), has been sentenced to 10 months’ jail for sedition.

Her sentence will begin on April 22, the court heard this morning.

Defence lawyer Choo Zheng Xi said that Takagi, 23, needed time to make arrangements for the care of her ramen business and her paralysed father-in-law.

Earlier this month, Takagi admitted to four counts of producing and distributing seditious material on TRS, with the intent of promoting ill-will and hostility among the different classes of the population in Singapore.

Three other similar charges and one charge of not producing documents during police investigations will be taken into consideration during sentencing.

Her husband Yang Kaiheng, a 27-year-old Singaporean, is claiming trial to the same set of charges.

The charges that they face under the Sedition Act involve seven articles the prosecution called “particularly egregious”.

They include one article, published on February 4 last year, which claimed that a Filipino family had caused an incident between the police and Thaipusam participants after the family complained about the playing of musical instruments during a Thaipusam procession.

The other charges are related to articles that were published between October 2013 and February last year that could incite ill-will and hostility among various groups in Singapore, court documents showed.

In addition to the sedition charges, the couple — who were first hauled to court last April — also face one charge each under the Penal Code for not producing accounts and bank statements for mobile and online advertisements to the police during investigations.

Ai, who is now two months’ pregnant, issued a public apology in court, saying she was “not fully aware of the level of sensitivity needed”, and added that she will conduct herself more carefully in future. — TODAY