The youngest son of Singapore’s founder Lee Kuan Yew has been granted asylum in the UK after suffering years of alleged persecution by a regime then headed by his older brother.

Lee Hsien Yang said he was forced to flee the country after the government went after him amid a long-running family rift over the fate of his late father’s home.

Under his brother’s 20-year rule, which ended in May, Lee, 67, said that authorities prosecuted his son, brought legal action against his wife and launched a “bogus” investigation against him.

In a Facebook post on Tuesday, he added that fleeing to the UK two years ago was his “last resort”.

He revealed he was given asylum in August after Britain determined he faces “a well-founded risk of persecution, and cannot safely return to Singapore”.