Asia Sentinel
24 May 2008
Veteran agitator probably heads back behind bars for speaking his mind in the Lion City
The much-jailed head of the Singapore opposition, Chee Soon Juan, appears about to go back to jail after having been found guilty of speaking in public without a permit.
Chee, the head of the Singapore Democratic Party, and Yap Keng Ho, another party official, were convicted Wednesday in the court of District Court Judge Jasvender Kaur, who postponed sentencing to give the prosecution time to state its position on six other charges. The two are to be sentenced on May 30.
Chee and Yap were charged with eight counts under the Public Entertainment and Meetings Act for selling their newspaper, the New Democrat, to raise funds during the 2006 election campaign, in which the ruling People’s Action Party won 82 out of 84 seats but only 66.6 percent of the overall vote.
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