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	Encyclopedia: Chia Thye Poh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Chia was a former member of the now defunct political party Barisan Sosialis and a former Member of Parliament of Jurong Constituency.
		In the same year, Chia Thye Poh led a demonstration of supporters to the Parliament House and handed a letter to the Clerk of Parliament, demanding a General Election, the release of all political detainees, and the revocation of all "undemocratic" laws.
		However, Chia refused as he felt that signing this document would imply that he was affiliated with the CPM and had intention to cause instability in Singapore.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chia-Thye-Poh (648 words)

	Chia Thye Poh interviewed by Newsweek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Chia Thye Poh is still learning to savor his newly restored freedom.
		Chia had attempted to organize a protest rally against the Vietnam War, timed to coincide with a visit to Singapore by the then President Lyndon B. Johnson.
		In 1989 Chia was finally released from prison, but was sentenced to internal exile on a small island in the Singapore Strait.
	www.sfdonline.org /chia/Newsweek.html (971 words)

	Mengapa Isa?: The Text to 'Mengapa Isa?'
		Chia Thye Poh was a university Physics lecturer.
		Chia Thye Poh was never formally tried in court.
		Chia Thye Poh refused to sign the confession that he was a Communist whose goal was the violent overthrow of the government.
	mengapaisa.blogspot.com /2004/12/text-to-mengapa-isa.html (2027 words)

	Singapore: Restrictions on Singapore's longest-serving political prisoner lifted
		Amnesty International believes that ChiaThye Poh's twenty-three years' detention without trial, and the subsequent prolonged restriction of his freedom of expression, association and movement, are a potent symbol of the oppressive effects of the ISA on Singapore's political and civil life.
		Chia Thye Poh, a former Member of Parliament representing the opposition Barisan Sosialis (Socialist Front - a breakaway faction of the PAP), was arrested on 28 October 1966 for participating in demonstrations and strikes.
		Chia has repeatedly denied all allegations that he was a communist or had planned to use force to overthrow the government.
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/singapore/document.do?id=7FDB4BA4D28D180E8025690000693363 (630 words)

	Chia Thye Poh: Spirit of Asia's Mandela
		Chia, a willowy and soft-spoken man of disarming politeness, is hardly the sort one imagines as a fiery revolutionary.
		Chia was detained on Oct 28, 1966 for protesting against the PAP (People's Action Party) government.
		Chia has paid dearly for his commitment to truth, and his belief in justice and democratic principles.
	www.singapore-window.org /sw00/001014mk.htm (1786 words)

	ASIANOW - Asiaweek
		Chia was 25 when he was arrested, along with 22 others, on Oct. 29, 1966, under the colonial-era Internal Security Act (ISA), which allows for detention without trial for indefinitely renewable two-year periods.
		Chia was not because he refused to renounce violence and sever alleged ties with the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) To have done so, he always maintained, would have been tantamount to admitting guilt.
		"Chia was arrested for his involvement in the CPM communist united front and to avert widespread unlawful demonstrations and violence." Chia snorts in response.
	robots.cnn.com /ASIANOW/asiaweek/98/1211/nat5.html (985 words)

	SINGAPORE: Singaporeans Demand Repeal of ISA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The gathering was the first public event that Chia, 57, has participated since he was freed on 27 November 1998, some 32 years after his arrest and detention under the ISA.
		Chia, a former elected opposition member of parliament, was arrested under the ISA in 1966.
		Chia had spent more than 22 years in jail, much of it in solitary confinement and incommunicado.
	www.ahrchk.net /hrsolid/mainfile.php/1999vol09no01/790 (405 words)

	yax-116 Without cover of the covenant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Chia had been first jailed, then his movements and political rights restricted, under the Internal Security Act since 1966, thirty-two years ago.
		From 1963-1966, Chia Thye Poh, then a physics lecturer in a university, was a Member of Parliament from the Barisan Socialis Party, which came into being when the more leftist MPs of the ruling People's Action Party split from it.
		This document was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 16 December 1966, by coincidence, the year Chia Thye Poh was arrested.
	www.yawningbread.org /arch_1998/yax-116.htm (2368 words)

	FriskoDude: Singapore Remembered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Chia was held without formal charge or a trial for 22 years in Whitley Road Detention Centre.
		Chia was finally released from prison in 1989 under the condition that he remain confined on the tourist resort island of Sentosa, where he worked in a converted souvenir stand as assistant curator of the museum.
		An unapologetic Chia was later sent home and now lives with his father but is forbidden to be employed, travel abroad, issue public statements, or associate with other former detainees without ISD approval.
	friskodude.blogspot.com /2005/05/singapore-remembered.html (2019 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		Never Gave In" [THE NATIONS, Dec. 11], Chia Thye Poh was not truthful when he said, "I'd never been a member of any communist party, that my past activities were constitutional and legal." His past activities were far from constitutional and legal.
		Chia was not only involved in a series of illegal demonstrations and strikes, he publicly advocated armed struggle and violence.
		The fact that Chia was a member of the Communist Party of Malaya was independently disclosed by several CPM members to the Internal Security Department.
	www.timeinc.net /asiaweek/98/1225/letters.html (937 words)

	Amnesty International 1999 Annual Report on Singapore (the Republic of)
		Chia Thye Poh, a former opposition member of parliament and prisoner of conscience who had been detained without trial between 1966 and 1989 under the Internal Security Act (isa), continued to have his freedom of expression and association restricted by government orders issued under the isa (see Amnesty International Report 1998).
		The government stated that if Chia Thye Poh “reinvolved” himself in activities which they regarded as prejudicial to Singapore's security, he would be “dealt with firmly under the law”.
		In November the organization noted the lifting of restriction orders against Chia Thye Poh, expressed the belief that the move was long overdue, and again called for the isa to be amended so that it no longer allowed for the arrest and detention without trial of those who peacefully express political or religious beliefs.
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/aireport/ar99/asa36.htm (957 words)

	Home Of the Singapore Democrats
		What makes Chia's story so remarkable is that he was a prisoner in the richest, technically most advanced, and socially most efficient part of the Chinese-speaking world...
		The only sound that penetrated Chia's chamber was the stamping of military boots and the muffled screaming of a prisoner in another cell.
		Chia was interrogated day and night, while being forced to stand naked in a freezing room with the air-conditioning going full blast - a peculiar Singaporean method of torture: a modern luxury turned into a torment.
	www.singaporedemocrat.org /classic/news_display.php?id=33 (448 words)

	Singapore:Security act must go, says victim Chia Thye Poh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mr Chia - previously a university physics teacher - was detained in 1966 at the age of 25, when he was active in politics as a member of Singapore's opposition Socialist Front (Barisan Socialis) party.
		Mr Chia was imprisoned from his arrest in 1966 until 1982, after which he was detained in government "half-way" houses.
		In August last year, Mr Chia was allowed to travel to Hamburg, Germany, on a one-year Hamburg Foundation academic fellowship, to study politics and economics.
	www.singapore-window.org /81128sc.htm (392 words)

	JGNews :: Publications :: Chia Thye Poh — The Man Himself
		He & Susan Chua interviewed Chia Thye Poh about his views on politics and the Internal Security Act while Chia was confined in Sentosa.
		Chia Thye Poh, a political detainee for twenty-three years, was released — conditionally — on the 17th of May 1989.
		Chia Thye Poh, as a primary school student, had a taste of studying both in a Chinese as well as an English school.
	www.jamesgomeznews.com /article.php?AID=63 (1524 words)

	AllRefer.com - Singapore - Political Opposition \| Singaporean Information Resource
		All detainees were released by the end of the year with the exception of Chia Thye Poh, who was held for more than two years.
		Although Chia was never charged, the government alleged that he was a member of the outlawed Communist Party of Malaya (CPM--see Glossary), assigned to infiltrate the Barisan Sosialis in order to destabilize the government.
		In 1987 amendments were made to the Parliament Privilege, Immunities, and Powers Act of 1962, giving Parliament the power to suspend any parliamentary member's immunity from civil proceedings for statements made in Parliament and to imprison and fine a member if he or she were found guilty of dishonorable conduct, abuse of privilege, or contempt.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/singapore/singapore125.html (910 words)

	Full-text of Story
		Chia Thye Poh, a parliamentarian and a member of the People's Action Party (PAP) - the only party that has ruled Singapore since its independence from British rule in 1961 - became disillusioned with the direction of PAP and, with 12 other parliamentarians, decided to form a new group in 1966.
		Chia was held under the Internal Security Act, a law inherited from the former British colonial administration and subsequently strengthened by PAP.
		And Chia is only one of many former political detainees, some of whom are now living in exile.
	hongkong97.scmp.com /news/ArchiveArticle19970624154139299.html (990 words)

	Is Singapore a police state?
		Another was Chia Thye Poh, whose lengthy incarceration has been compared to the experience of Nelson Mandela.
		First arrested on October 29, 1966 under the ISA, Chia was banished on May 16, 1989 to the off-shore pleasure island of Sentosa.
		Chia Thye Poh is incapable of shaking anything.
	policestate.blogspot.com /2004/07/lee-kuan-yews-betrayal-of-pap-and.html (6570 words)

	Asiaweek.com \| Looking Back \| 12/01/2000
		Arrested without charge in 1966 and jailed without trial for 22 years, six months, two weeks and four days, Chia, left, with his father, was released from Singapore jails in 1989 to become Sentosa's only fulltime resident.
		But he refused to confess to being a communist (only in 1985 did Singapore claim Chia was a member of the Communist Party of Malaya) or to renounce that party's alleged use of force and terror.
		Chia is currently pursuing a master's in developmental studies in The Netherlands.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/magazine/2000/1201/lookingback.html (499 words)

	Singapore: Petition to Ratify ICCPR and ICESR and Repeal the ISA
		The gathering had the pleasure and privilege of the company of Mr Chia Thye Poh who was just recently, on 26 November 1998 freed from all restrictions.
		Mr Chia was detained for 23 years, spent 31/2 years in internal exile on Sentosa Island and another 6 years under severe restrictions.
		Mr Chia is the last political prisoner to be freed.
	www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/1998/56 (1257 words)

	LKY's wife is "recovering well"
		Chia Thye Poh Singapore citizen Former member of Parliament Detained for 32 years without trial 1966(locked up at 25 years of age) -1998(released at 58 years of age) One living national Hero whose life is the epitome of indomitable courage and dignity in the face of the vilest persecution from the venomous dirtbag..
		Despot Lee often boasts of his 'Asian values' but look at what the sage Mencius has said centuries ago, "A person is not human if he or she does not feel compassion" Lee Kuan Yew is no human in his treatment of Chia Thia Poh..
		In fact to call Lee inhuman is an insult to the lower beings.
	www.usenet.com /newsgroups/soc.culture.taiwan/msg01709.html (481 words)

	Glass Menagarie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As I recall later, one thing from the play which I feel has really made an impression is a particular line spoken by one of the characters, Zainal, a Malay army guy, in response to his Chinese camp mate's effort to confront the Army policy.
		But then, to declare that even Chia has given up is like bursting the illusion of a fighting spirit, or the thought that we could have one.
		Now that he has adjusted his position, Chia seems more like a fugitive than ever, running away from a belief he has held on for half his life.
	www.singaporetheatrereviews.net /2002/fugitivesrv1.html (1791 words)

	Home Of the Singapore Democrats
		Leaders of the Barisan Socialis such as Said Zahari, Samad Ismail, Lim Chin Siong, Lim Hock Siew, Mahadeva, Chia Thye Poh, Poh Soo Kai, et al.
		Chia Thye Poh holds the dubious honour of being the world’s longest serving political prisoner.
		There is also no mention about the 22 social activists who were roped in under the ISA in 1987 for the laughable charge of being "Marxist" conspirators.
	www.singaporedemocrat.org /classic/news_display.php?id=169 (931 words)

	Truth Swings By The Neck
		For Dr Chee Soon Juan, J. Jeyaretnam and Chia Thye Poh, what is striking is how little there is to deflate.
		Unlike the Tiananmen students are mostly living in relative comfort in the West, or those Hong Kong and Taiwan activists who managed get some position in their governments, there is still little public recognition of the validity of dissenting viewpoints.
		Chia was imprisoned for 23 years and now exiled, and Chee and Jeyaretnam are still hounded, simplified and distorted by the PAP & its tools (especially the media) into outcasts purely by their refusal to submit.
	tengqianxi.diaryland.com /buruma.html (932 words)

	Asean News Network: Internal Security Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Chia Thye Poh, was the longest serving political prisoner after Nelson Mandela from South Africa.
		Detained under the Internal Security Act of Singapore, he was imprisoned for 23 years without trial and subsequently placed under internal exile for another 9 years when his movement was confined to the island of Sentosa.
		In the same year, Chia Thye Poh led a demonstration of supporters to the Parliament House and handed a letter to the Clerk of Parliament, demanding a General Election, the release of all political detainees, and the revocation of all "undemocratic" laws including the Internal Security Act.
	www.aseannewsnetwork.com /2004/02/internal-security-act.html (1440 words)

	Lee Kuan Yew -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On one occasion, after a court ruling in favour of Lee was overturned by the (An advisory council to a ruler (especially to the British crown)) Privy Council, the right of appeal to the Council was abolished.
		During his premiership from 1965 to 1990, he incarcerated (additional info and facts about Chia Thye Poh) Chia Thye Poh, a former MP of an opposition party, the Barisan Socialis, for 22 years under the Internal Security Act for being an alleged member of the Malayan Communist Party, only to be released in 1989
		He abolished the "Trial by Jury" in the courts hence giving full authority to the judges in their judicial decisions.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/lee_kuan_yew.htm (2587 words)

	Who is Chee Soon Juan? - Sintercom
		Chia Thye Poh was elected MP of Jurong.
		Chia Thye Poh was arrested on Oct 1966 at the Barisan office.
		Dr Poh Soo Kai, who was detained in 1963 and released in 1972, was detained again in 1976.
	www.newsintercom.org /index.php?itemid=170 (3357 words)

	Omeka Na Huria: July 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One other interesting piece is an interview with Chia Thye Poh in 1989 by James Gomez & Susan Chua for the PHILOTIN, the NUS Philosophy Society's magazine.
		So, in a way, we are all responsible for Chia Thye Poh's lost years.
		Chia Thye Poh is a man of principle with an unbreakable spirit of upholding truth, peace, justice and democracy
	omekanahuria.blogspot.com /2005_07_01_omekanahuria_archive.html (8574 words)

	Singapore's problems remain
		Chia Thye Poh, a member of Parliament, was brought up on charges of being a communist when he formally protested Lee's harassment of his party.
		Chia now lives in exile for political crimes.
		Last year's Asia Watch human rights survey listed Lee's government as engaging in "a systematic campaign to destroy both civil society and the rule of law." The group has implicated Lee's government in the abuse of the Catholic Church, welfare organizations, the national university, media correspondents, and opposition political parties.
	www-tech.mit.edu /Issue/V110/N48/hersch.48o.html (846 words)

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