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...fact, last year, another Hill member found herself in exactly that position--she stood across the street from Springier outside of polling sites, holding opposing signs for Question Five. Ellen L. Chuan '90 recalls, "We stood on the same corner, me holding a 'no' sign and him holding a 'yes,' and we'd debate each other. It was ironic top me that there was another Jewish person standing opposite me. It's all the more surprising because his mother is from Israel." She adds, "But he's definitely very committed to Diadems...
Recent news reports have drawn the attention of Harvard students to the plight of Chew Kheng Chuan '82, who has been imprisoned in Singapore since May 8 on charges of participating in a "Marxist conspiracy" against the government. Singapore's Internal Security Act (ISA) permits the indefinite detention, without charge or trial, of any person suspected of posing a threat to national security...
...June of 1987, during a government crackdown on dissent. These arrests marked the first time in a decade that new arrests had been made under the IS, although one prisoner, Chia Thye Poh, has been held without trial since 1966 on account of his nonviolent political opinions. Chew Kheng Chuan and the others arrested with him in 1987 had never publicly supported the use of violence; rather, they were apparently arrested for their involvement in various church and student groups, community activities and peaceful political opposition...
Most of the detainees, including Chew Kheng Chuan, were released by September 1987. On April 19, 1988, however, eight of the former prisoners were rearrested, along with their defense attorney, after they publicized a statement repudiating their televised "confessions" and claiming that they had been threatened and mistreated in prison. On May 8, 1988, Chew himself was rearrested, supposedly for helping to edit the detainees' statement. On July 16, he was served with a one-year detention order...
Many prominent Harvard administrators and faculty members have already protested to Lee Kuan Yew, the prime minister of Singapore, about Chew Kheng Chuan's arrest. Students can contribute to the growing public pressure for his release by writing...