Vincent Cheng (dissident)

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Vincent Cheng is a Singaporean Catholic social worker who was detained without trial under the Internal Security Act (Singapore) for 3 years.

Controversy

In 1987, Vincent Cheng was one of the 22 Singaporeans branded as a "Marxist Conspirator" and arrested under Operation Spectrum. He was the last detainee to be released.

On 1 January 1994, Amnesty International recognized him as a "prisoner of conscience."[1]

Vincent and his fellow detainees related some of their experiences, including physical torture,[2] in the book, That We May Dream Again, published in 2009.

In 2010, he was barred from speaking at a forum at the National Library of Singapore which was organized by the NUS History Society. The NUS History Society was not the one who barred Vincent Cheng from the forum, having been informed to drop Vincent Cheng from the list of speakers. No official announcement has been released on who was the one who made the decision to bar him.

Vincent Cheng has also recounted on his experiences in the blog Singaporerebel.[3] The NGO Singaporeans For Democracy (SFD) wrote an official letter of inquiry[4] to the Internal Security Department over the issue.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Amnesty International Report 1994 - Singapore". Amnesty International. 1 January 1994. 
  2. ↑ Vincent Cheng: I still bear the scars
  3. ↑ 23 years after Operation Spectrum : Ex-detainees recall mental and physical abuses
  4. ↑ SFD queries ISD over Vincent Cheng affair

External links

  • Vincent Cheng speaks at a Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) rally (video): Part 1,Part 2

"Vincent Cheng: What I did for Wah Piow" June 10, 1987

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