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Chia Thye Poh

Chia Thye Poh
Member of Parliament for Jurong SMC
In office
1963 – October 1966
Preceded by Chor Yeok Eng
Succeeded by Ho Kah Leong
Leader of the Barisan Sosialis
In office
1961 – October 1966
Preceded by Lee Siew Choh
Succeeded by Lee Siew Choh
Constituency Jurong SMC
Personal details
Born 1941 (age 75–76)
Singapore
Political party Barisan Sosialis (1961-1966)
Chia Thye Poh
Traditional Chinese 謝太寶
Simplified Chinese 谢太宝

Dr Chia Thye Poh (born 1941) is a Singaporean former political prisoner.

Detained under the Internal Security Act of Singapore for allegedly conducting pro-communist activities against the government, he was imprisoned for 23 years without charge or trial and subsequently placed under conditions of house arrest for another nine years – in which he was first confined to the island of Sentosa and then subject to restrictions on his place of abode, employment, travel, and exercise of political rights.

Prior to his detention, he had been a teacher, a physics lecturer, a socialist political activist and a member of the Parliament of Singapore. Subsequent to it, he has been a doctoral student and an interpreter.

He travelled to Germany in 1997, and to the Netherlands at least as recently as 2000. The supervision of his PhD thesis in development economics was completed in 2006.

He read physics at Nanyang University and upon graduating he worked briefly as a secondary school teacher and then as a graduate assistant at his alma mater.

As a member of the Barisan Sosialis he was elected member of the Legislative Assembly for Jurong Constituency in 1963, being nominated as the candidate in replacement of a colleague who had been arrested by the government of Singapore. Concurrent with his holding of office, he worked as a university physics professor.

He was banned permanently from entering Malaysia in the wake of a political speech he delivered to the Perak division of the Labour Party of Malaysia on 24 April 1966.


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