{"id":993,"date":"2007-12-31T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/12\/31\/singaporean-hunger-strike-to-support-hindraf-5\/"},"modified":"2007-12-31T16:00:28","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T08:00:28","slug":"singaporean-hunger-strike-to-support-hindraf-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/12\/31\/singaporean-hunger-strike-to-support-hindraf-5\/","title":{"rendered":"singaporean hunger strike to support Hindraf 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"470\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>Singaporean on 5-day hunger strike to support Hindraf 5<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/76524\">http:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/76524<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>Dec 31, 07 12:24pm<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>A Singaporean artist said today he had begun a hunger strike to seek the release of Malaysian Hindu rights activists detained under a tough security law.<\/div>\n<div>&quot;At 9am, I began (the hunger strike),&quot; 23-year-old Seelan Palay said from near the front gate of the Malaysian High Commission.<\/div>\n<div>Palay said he would drink water but not eat during the hunger strike, which will last five days &#8211; one day for each detained member from Malaysia&#39;s Hindu Rights Action Force Hindraf.<\/div>\n<div>The five are being held under Malaysia&#39;s Internal Security Act, which allows for indefinite detention without trial.<\/div>\n<div>&quot;I&#39;ll sleep on the ground on a straw mat,&quot; Palay said, adding he was wearing a sign around his neck that read: &quot;Give them fair trial.&quot;<\/div>\n<div>The activists were detained after they enraged the government in November by mounting a mass rally alleging discrimination against Indians in Malaysia, where the majority are ethnic Malay Muslims.<\/div>\n<div>Police used tear gas, water cannon and baton charges to break up the street protest by at least 30,000 people. Palay said he attended that rally.<br \/><b><br \/><font color=\"#993300\">Free them or charge them in court<\/font> <\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a statement released before the hunger strike, Palay called for global pressure on the Malaysian government to free the five and to prove allegations against them in open court.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>&quot;In line with the greater focus on human rights in Asean today &#8230; we surely cannot turn a blind eye to this matter,&quot; his statement said.<\/div>\n<div>The Association of Southeast Asian Nations last month signed a charter calling for the establishment of a regional human rights body.<\/div>\n<div>Singapore currently chairs the 10-member Asean.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singaporean on 5-day hunger strike to support Hindraf 5 http:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/76524 Dec 31, 07 12:24pm A Singaporean artist said today he had begun a hunger strike to seek the release of Malaysian Hindu rights activists detained under a tough security law. &quot;At 9am, I began (the hunger strike),&quot; 23-year-old Seelan Palay said from near the front [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[112,21,27],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-discrimination","tag-hindraf","tag-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}