is uncleyap going to jail for 20 days?

[leetahbar]

from the desk of gopalan nair:

09/09/2009Singapore's Yap Keng Ho - 20 Days in Changi Jail Jail Listen to this article

To: Singapore/Malaysia Network
Dear friends,
PLEASE SEND IMMEDIATELY SUPPORTIVE MESSAGES TO JAILED ACTIVIST


I am sorry -- once again -- to share with you concern about the treatment of Singapore's most prominent opposition leader and human rights defender, Dr Chee Soon Juan, Secretary-General of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), and his colleague Yap Keng Ho. In yet another trial, Dr Chee was convicted of speaking in public without a permit under the Public Entertainments and Meetings Act and fined S$10,000 or 10 weeks in prison. He is lodging an appeal. Yap Keng Ho, was similarly convicted and is serving a 20-day jail term after refusing to pay a S$2,000 fine (roughly equivalent to the Canadian dollar). The charges were related to the selling of their party newspaper during the 2006 elections.


Dr Chee argued that the charge against him is a red herring, since the Ministry for Home Affairs and police have stated that no permits will be issued for outdoor political events. Dr Chee said that such a ban clearly violated the Constitution and was therefore legally invalid. He pointed out that, as a citizen of Singapore, he is guaranteed fundamental freedoms of speech, expression and peaceful assembly.


I AM ASKING YOU TO SEND IMMEDIATELY MESSAGES OF SUPPORT TO YAP KENG HO, NOW HELD IN CHANGI PRISON. SUCH MESSAGES ARE OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE, AS RECENTLY EXPRESSED BY THE SDP'S ASSISTANT SECRETAR-GENERAL JOHN TAN, WHO HAD RECEIVED MESSAGES WHEN IMPRISONED.


All good wishes,


Margaret John
Coordinator for Singapore and Malaysia


TAKE ACTION


1. Please send IMMEDIATE messages saying you support his right to freedom of expression to:


Yap Keng Ho
Detainee
Changi Prison
982 Upper Changi Road North
Singapore 507709


2. Please write a courteous letter:


* Express your concern about penalties continuing to be imposed on government critics, including Dr Chee Soon Juan, for exercising their right to freedom of speech and assembly;
* Urge that Singapore should ensure that government critics and human rights defenders be accorded all the rights guaranteed in Singapore's Constitution and international human rights treaties, including the Un Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;
* Refer to the government's promises of a more open society allowing greater diversity of views and request information on the implementation of such developments.


WRITE TO:


President S R Nathan
Office of the President of Singapore
Orchard Road
Singapore 238823
E-mail: [email protected]
Fax: 011 65 6737 5522
Salutation: Dear President
COPIES TO:


His Excellency Koh Yong Guan
Singapore High Commissioner to Canada
c/o Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Tanglin
Singapore 248163
E-mail: [email protected]
Fax: 011 65 6474 7885

if uncleyap had indeed commited a crime, then he goes to jail. peasants cannot always be exploited to shield him and all those chee's clowns for the public nonsense that causes disruption to the society. if they deserved to be punished, then they should bear their consequences.

if not, then please be good boys and girls and stay at home.

 

[leetahbar]

why was a local domestic issue activated the alarm of foreign kaypohjis? those kaypohs have more rubbish in their own hometown which they fail terriby to clean up. how can they clean up other's rubbish then?

obviously, a sinister plot is hatching under such guises of human rights, free speeches and democrapsy. the usual stuff if it's coming from chee and his wacky gang.

 

[yellow people]

Is this why the elderly couple at Blk 171 Stirling Rd refuse to report their bastard son Bob Sim Kheng Hwee to the authorities abusing them?

http://tnp.sg/news/story/0,4136,210946,00.html?

So SHAMEFUL, yet he doesn't want to SHAME them

82-year-old man eats free food at S'pore Buddhist Lodge. He gets a total of $200 a month from his 4 grown children. Can the Maintenance of Parents Act help him?
By Liew Hanqing

SURE, there is the Parents' Maintenance Act and he can compel his children to support him.

But what of the family name? And face?

No, Mr Ng would not have it. No matter how bad it is, the family name has to be protected.

So the elderly man suffers in silence alone - despite having four working children.

The 82-year-old lives alone in a rental two-room flat in Henderson.

Several times a week, he makes his way to the Singapore Buddhist Lodge at River Valley Road, and spends the day there for food and company.

His is the face of a dilemma that will grow with Singapore's ageing population. The issue, filial piety, is more complex than it seems.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong touched on the subject in Sunday's National Day Rally speech and said the Government will study how best to use the Maintenance of Parents Act to get children who dump their parents in nursing homes and hospitals to do their filial duty.

But it may not be as clear-cut as legislation.

Mr Ng's four children are busy with their own lives. Together, they give him less than $200 a month.

He said they never visit him - not even on Chinese New Year. It is not clear when they last visited him.

And he is too proud to reach out to them.

The former odd-job worker will not ask his children for more, nor will he take them to task for not doing as much as they should.

He does not know that, under the Maintenance of Parents Act, he can apply for the courts to compel them to support him.

When told about this, he declined to even consider it. The reason: Shame. And face.

He even asked that we not publish his full name as he 'does not want to appear pitiful'.

He only agreed to be photographed from the back because he 'does not want to bring shame' to his family.

Mr Ng, like many lonely and elderly Singaporeans, yearns for company.

He told The New Paper in Mandarin: 'It's boring at home, and I want to try to save some money, so I eat here.'

Mr Ng is estranged from his three sons and daughter, who are all in their 50s.


'My eldest son, who is a hawker, sometimes leaves money for me with my brother, and I collect it myself.'

Aside from the money he gets from his two older children, his two younger sons do not help out much.

His eldest son pays his monthly utility bills, which are usually less than $100.

'My youngest son can't even take care of himself - he likes to gamble. He's also divorced and has to pay monthly maintenance to his ex-wife,' Mr Ng said.

He added: 'Actually, I'm quite lucky that my health is fine, except for high blood pressure.'

He also needs medication for a chronic skin condition, which results in itchy welts.

'I applied for help for my medical costs and thankfully I can get most of my medicine free,' he said. He cannot remember who helped him.

Other than spending $50 a month on transport, Mr Ng said he has hardly any other expenses.

'When I am hungry at home, I eat biscuits or make oatmeal for myself,' he said.

To keep himself occupied at night, he watches TV for hours until he falls asleep past midnight.

He said: 'I have a lot of troubles, so I will think about a lot of things before I can fall asleep.

'My children are not filial - not a single one of them. It's so sad that four children cannot even support one old man.'

Mr Lee Bock Guan, 64, president of the Singapore Buddhist Lodge, sees about three cases similar to Mr Ng's every month.

In some cases, Mr Lee said, staff from the lodge would contact the families of these elderly people to help them resolve their differences and to urge them to take care of their aged parents.

He said in Mandarin: 'In some cases, they listen to us, but others tell us not to interfere in their family matters.'

 

[yellow people]

Cheebye kia Bob stop spamming!

 

[leetahbar]

though uncleyap may be an extremist prejudicial to sgp law n governance, i do respect him. at least he stands firmly for his belief and causes and bravely faces the consequences. unlike some 1/2past6 lawyer and phd nerd who brag so much but in the end turn tail and run with tails in between their legs.

though uy's causes might be fruitless and that he doesn't realise it until his last breathe, his fighting spirit - silly as it might be - is still quite admirable.

 

[leetahbar]

hello, u sick in ur head or something is it? get a life will you? u should check how the abc troll abuses her own seniors, husband, maid and maybe even her kids.

and if u r the gay pinoy fr palawan bitch, then it's understood