Dear comrades and friends, Dear fellow ex-detainees of February 2 and the waves of repression thereafter till today, Today, we gather to ...
Lee Tse Tong was arrested on 8 October 1963. He was held under the Internal Security Act until November 1967. In that month, he was released after bringing a successful application for a writ ofhabeas corpus but was immediately rearrested under the ISA. He was then deprived of his cit...
.. But after Kuan Yew's death, there may a fight within the PAP. At the moment, there are 3 factions in the PAP..." A founding member of the PAP and a former political prisoner of 17 years, Dr Poh Soo Kai offers a perspective of the history of Singapore's struggle for independence and...
1. If we do not continue to import foreign workers, the economy will go into a tailspin and your daughters will end up as maids in other countries. 2. If we help the poor too much, we will end up a welfare state where nobody will work and everyone waits for handouts. 3. If we allow on...
It began with the government trying to be too smart for its own good. The Ministry of National Development said, in its latest Town Council Management Review, that Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC) got a red score — the worst band — over its management of arrears of service and con...
On 8th August 2012, a group of SMRT drivers petitioned the Union Chief Lim Swee Say demanding reinstatement of their previous five day workweek and salary package. Their negotiations have reached a stalemate. I spoke to three drivers from SMRT on the 25th of September and they tell th...
I'm a Singaporean who survived 15 months of police investigation for the making of banned short film 'Singapore Rebel', deemed to be an illegal political film under the law. Has since followed up with 'Zahari's 17 Years', a documentary on an ex-political detainee, and 'Speakers Corner...
Tan Jing Quee and Michael Fernandez were the first ISA detainees to speak about their detention in 2006. Both men were detained in 1963 and again in 1977. It took them more than 40 years to talk about their imprisonment. In 2009, Jing Quee composed a poem “ISA Detainee”. There he reco...
Three of Singapore's longest-held ex-political detainees in a recent photo. From left : Dr Chia Thye Poh (32 years), Dr Poh Soo Kai (17 years), Dr Lim Hock Siew (19 years). Seated is the late Mr Tan Jing Quee, twice detained under the ISA. The photo is published in a booklet distribut...
