master chee's impending jail term news had reached the ears of the angmo lau gaos or the red-haired foreign monkeys. it was something very kaypohing about these foreign monkeys. they just loved meddling in affair of peesailand when their own country was in a bedlam.
the question or mystery now: was master chee with his SDP CLAN a pawn stringed by the angmo lau gaos to bring chaos - hopefully not - to peesailand?
Human Rights Watch to Singapore: Drop charges Against Chee
Posted: 08 Feb 2011 07:36 PM PST
For Immediate Release
Singapore: Drop Charges Against Opposition Leader
Chee Soon Juan Faces Prison for Conviction Violating Free Speech Rights
(New York, February 9, 2011) – The Singaporean government should drop politically motivated charges brought in 2006 against opposition party leader Dr. Chee Soon Juan that will lead to a prison term on February 10, 2011, if he does not pay a fine, Human Rights Watch said today.
Chee faces a prison term of 20 weeks starting February 10 if he cannot pay fines of S$20,000 (US$15,720) for “making an address in a public place without a license,” which was upheld by an appeals’ court on January 20. Human Rights Watch said that the convictions violated Chee’s rights to freedom of expression and assembly.
“The Singaporean government is once again abusing the justice system and trampling on basic rights to remove an opposition politician from the political playing field,” said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “The government should end this persecution of Dr. Chee and show that free speech is not a dead letter in Singapore.”
Chee, 48, is the secretary-general of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party (SDP). He was convicted four times, in each case for speaking in a public area with street vendors for four to five minutes about upcoming elections ultimately held in May 2006. He spoke to crowds that observers estimated ranged up to 40 or 50 people. In each instance, Chee encouraged people to purchase copies of the The New Democrat, the party newspaper, as a way to support his party. The courts convicted Chee of violating the Public Entertainments and Meetings Act (PEMA), which provides that “any person who provides … any public entertainment without a license under this Act, shall be guilty of an offense and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000.”
Chee is currently prohibited under the Singaporean constitution from serving in Parliament. Section 45 of Singapore’s constitution states that anyone who “has been convicted of an offence by a court of law in Singapore … and sentenced to imprisonment for a term of not less than one year or to a fine of not less than $2,000 and has not received a free pardon” is not qualified to be a member of parliament. Political observers believe that national elections for parliament will be held in the first half of 2011.
For years the government has relied on repressive laws to jail and bankrupt Chee. Between 1999 and 2006, Chee was arrested four other times for violating Singapore’s laws restricting public speech and assembly. In November 2006, he chose imprisonment rather than pay a S$5,000 fine. In 2002, senior leaders Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong sued Chee for remarks he allegedly made regarding a loan to Indonesian President Suharto. In February 2006, after Chee failed to pay the S$500,000 (US$393,000) in court-awarded damages, he was declared bankrupt, which prohibited him from running in the 2006 elections and from leaving the country.
Other members of the Singapore Democratic Party also have been fined and jailed, many repeatedly, for speaking without a permit or for peacefully demonstrating.
Singapore’s human rights record will undergo international scrutiny in May in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process at the United Nations Human Rights Council. Singapore’s violations over many years of the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly should be prominently raised by governments commenting on Singapore’s human rights record, Human Rights Watch said.
“If the penalties were not so severe, it would be laughable that a so-called ‘democratic’ government would actually lock up someone for giving a speech on a sidewalk and encouraging people to buy their party’s broadsheet,” Robertson said. “The governments reviewing Singapore’s record at the Human Rights Council should highlight cases where Singapore’s oppressive laws make peaceful speech a criminal offense.”
To read Human Rights Watch’s December 2006 news release, “Singapore: Release Opposition Party Leader,” please visit:
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2006/12/07/singapore-release-opposition-party-leader
To read Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2011 chapter on Singapore, please visit:
http://www.hrw.org/en/world-report-2011/singapore
according to sources, the donation drive to save master chee's butt from intense chroming in changing resort had now reached 18k+. with another 1k+, master chee would be able to exchange that with the magistrate court to defer his compelled recluse. chee's butt would be saved!
the ethic here was: how come chee need public donation for all his public nonsense? is the public fuelling his mischief? whenever the shits left by master chee, the cleaning would be left to the poor peasants. when would such antic cease and desist? master chee was shirking his responsibility for the bad tiding he sowed.
i guess a valuable lesson here would never be learned....and the political martial arts upheavals in peesailand would continue as long as master chee was stringed by the foreign angmo lau gaos which motivated him persistently.
LATEST UPDATE: http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/main.asp?webtag=3in1kopitiam&nav=messages&prettyurl=%2F3in1kopitiam%2Fmessages
According to the SDP CLAN, $20,120 had been reached. would the ball stop there or would there be more donation drive to save master chee again in a deja vu? by the way, what's going to happen to the extra $120? a bonus angpow of good luck for master chee?
is this personal charity drive by the internet legal? if it is, then everyone could post a sad-sob story and the silly peasants would start pouring in their money. could this be a landmark start to INTERNET CONJOB??
MORAL OF THE STORY:
whenever master chee shits or diarrhoae, peasants were manipulated to wipe his arse clean with all their hard-earned dollar bills. sad! :(
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