Chia Thye Poh
| Chia Thye Poh | |
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| Member of Parliament for Jurong SMC | |
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In office 1963 – October 1966 |
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| Preceded by | Chor Yeok Eng |
| Succeeded by | Ho Kah Leong |
| Leader of the Barisan Sosialis | |
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In office 1961 – October 1966 |
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| 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 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 谢太宝 | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Xiè Tàibǎo |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | Siā Thài-pó |
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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