Poh Soo Kai

Poh Soo Kai (Chinese: 傅樹介; pinyin: Fu Shùjiè) was a Singaporean politician, political prisoner. He was a founding member of the University Socialist Club and the People's Action Party.

Biography

Poh was born in Singapore in 1930 and entered the University of Malaya in 1950. He was a founding member of the Socialist Club in 1953 and became its second President from August that year till the following year. Poh was one of the eight members of the Fajar editorial board charged with sedition in 1954. He graduated three years later with a degree in Medicine.

Poh was also a founding member of the PAP in 1954. When the party split in 1961, he left to join the Barisan Sosialis as its Assistant Secretary-General. He was arrested and detained without trial under Operation Coldstore in 1963 and held in 1976. He was arrested again without trial under the Internal Security Act in 1976. He co-edited the book, The Fajar Generation: The University Socialist Club and the Politics of Postwar Malaya and Singapore (2009).[1]

References

  1. ↑ Loh, Kah S (2012). The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya: Tangled Strands of Modernity. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p. 273. ISBN 9089644091.
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