Singapore's top dissident keeps talking

Asia Times Online, 7 Jul 2010
Chee Soon Juan just won't shut up. The Singapore establishment's most frequently harassed dissident has been fired, jailed, sued, beaten mercilessly - in elections - barred from traveling, and, he claims, drugged. But Chee still keeps making noise as leader of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP).
Since 1999, he's been fined and/or jailed on several occasions for speaking in public without a permit. During a 2006 stay in jail, Chee became ill, leading to claims he'd been poisoned. He was also named in a new defamation suit brought by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his father and now Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew over alleged government complicity in the 2006 National Kidney Foundation's alleged misuse of contributions. Full Story