Singapore: Ng Chye Huay Protests Unlawful Detention After Being Released from Prison

(Clearwisdom.net) On December 14, at about 9:30 a.m., practitioner Ng Chye Huay walked out of the Changi Women's Prison, where she was unlawfully detained for fifteen days for conducting a peaceful protest outside the Chinese Embassy on July 20, 2006.

Ms. Ng told a Minghui/Clearwisdom reporter that she had appealed while she was still in the prison.

She said, "A prison guard asked me if I wanted to appeal and told me that people can appeal for two reasons: a) Refusing to surrender to the verdict; b) Belief that the sentence is excessive. I appealed for both reasons."

Ms. Ng said, "During the trial, the judge refused to accept our witnesses and material evidence. While there was only one police witness against us, the judge rushed to rule that we were guilty. This is completely inconsistent with Singapore laws. In addition, I was fined 1,500 Singapore dollars or 15 days in prison if the fine was not paid. To my knowledge, the 15 days in prison is excessive.

While in prison, Ms. Ng told the guards, "The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is harvested organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in China. However, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew assists the CCP in the persecution of Falun Gong as he manipulates the media to denigrate the practice and orders the Singapore judicial system to sue and detain practitioners who are trying to tell the public the truth of the persecution and stop the killing." She hopes that the guards can learn the truth and make their own conscientious choices.

Ms. Ng is one of the two practitioners who were sued by the Singapore police for conducting a peaceful protest outside the Chinese Embassy on July 20, 2006. On November 30, after a three-day trial, the judge rushed to close the case while rejecting the practitioners' evidence. They were found guilty and fined 1,000 and 1,500 Singapore dollars, respectively. Because Ms. Ng believed that the trial process was unfair, as the judge refused to consider their material evidence and four witnesses, she refused to accept the ruling and raised a request for an appeal at the court. However, the judge ruled that they had to serve the prison terms before they can appeal.

Because they refused to pay the fines, the two practitioners were then sent to prison. The other defendant, Mr. Erh Boon Tiong, was released on December 9.

Ms. Ng said, "The true criminal of this 'July 20' case was Lee Kuan Yew. To please the CCP, he ordered the arrest, charging and detaining of the practitioners. Lee has disgraced himself, the Singapore judicial system and all government employees involved in the case." She said that despite the difficulties, that Singapore practitioners will continue to clarify the truth to the public until the persecution is stopped.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/12/16/144832.html

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