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Francis Seow is a Singapore born, Oxbridge and Harvard-educated political dissident who is in self-imposed exile from Singapore. Francis Seow is currently a United States citizen, and a University Fellow based in the Department of Asian Studies of Harvard University. Image File history File links Stop_hand. ... Oxbridge is a portmanteau name for the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest in the United Kingdom and the English-speaking universe. ... A dissident is a person who actively opposes the established order. ... Geographically and technically, both Asian and Asiatic indicates a person, place, thing, or idea original to Asia. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ...

A solicitor by training whose served as Solicitor-General of Singapore (1969-1971), Francis Seow is one of the few Singaporean politicians to have challenged the Singapore one-party leadership under the People's Action Party (PAP), led by Lee Kuan Yew. The policies of the PAP are highly controversial but they have transformed the island of Singapore from a third world British colonial port into a first world global city, South-east Asia's wealthiest nation-state and Asia's telecommunications hub. A solicitor is a type of lawyer in many common law jurisdictions, such as the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Republic of Ireland, Canada and some States of Australia but not the United States. ... Party logo with a symbol of red lightning that signifies action. ... Lee Kuan Yew (also spelt Lee Kwan-Yew) (born September 16, 1923) (Chinese: 李光耀; Pinyin: ) was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore from 1959 to 1990. ... World map of colonialism at the end of the Second World War in 1945. ... Seaport, a painting by Claude Lorrain, 1638 The Port of Wellington at night. ... London New York City Paris Tokyo For a city spanning an entire planet, see Ecumenopolis A global city, also known as a world city or world-class city, is a city that has a direct and tangible effect on global affairs through socioeconomic, cultural, and/or political means. ... Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ... BlackBerry 7100t Telecommunications is the communication of information at a distance. ...

As President of the Law Society in 1986, Seow had a falling out with Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. In the 1988, he was a member of the Workers' Party team that contested Eunos Group Representation Constituency in the 1988 election, with his team eventually winning 49.11% of the vote. Just before the election, he was detained without trial under the Internal Security Act for 72 days, accused of having received funds from the United States and advice for the purpose of promoting democracy in Singapore, and was subjected to torture including sleep deprivation and intense air-conditioning. During the elections, he was slammed as an American stooge. Later, while awaiting trial for tax evasion, he fled the country and was convicted in absentia. These events are alleged by many to have been politically motivated, and part of a pattern lawsuits and criminal proceedings against Singapore's political dissent. The Workers Party is a name used by various political parties throughout the world. ... Eunos means: a brand of car marketed in Japan by Mazda an area of Singapore : Eunos is a small neighbourhood in Singapores middle East. ... The Group Representative Constituency (GRC) system in Singapore is a formal system of social and political committees representing the interests of both the majority and minority social groups within each local island community. ... Torture is any act by which severe pain, whether physical or psychological, is intentionally inflicted on a person as a means of intimidation, a deterrent, revenge, a punishment, or as a method for the extraction of information or confessions (i. ... Sleep deprivation is an overall lack of the necessary amount of sleep. ... The external section of a typical single-room air conditioning unit. ... This article contrasts tax evasion, tax avoidance, tax resistance and tax mitigation. ... In Absentia is the eighth studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, first released in September 24, 2002. ... Dissent is the sentiment of non-agreement with the majority, or the leader, of a group to which the dissenter is supposed to belong or to obey. ...

Francis Seow's book, To Catch a Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew's prison, is about his personal experience of being detained by the Internal Security Department, which serve as a wry critique of and political commentary on the authoritarianism and human rights abuses of government under the pseudo-dictatorship of then-Prime Minister, later Senior Minister, and currently [Minister Mentor] Lee Kuan Yew. Some point out, though, that his retelling of the events of his detention seems a bit too detailed and perfect, and so suspect some literary embellishment on the author's part. Seow also wrote a book called The Media Enthralled, which describe how the Singapore government undermined the freedom of media and turned the Singapore media into pro-government mouthpieces. This article applies to political ideologies. ... A human rights abuse is abuse of people in a way that violates any fundamental human rights. ... Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister A Prime Minister is a politician who serves as the head of the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ... The political office of Senior Minister in the political system of Singapore is taken by a Prime Minister when he retires from that office, but still has something to offer the government based on his long experience. ... Lee Kuan Yew (also spelt Lee Kwan-Yew) (born September 16, 1923) (Chinese: 李光耀; Pinyin: ) was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore from 1959 to 1990. ...

Other famous political dissidents in Singapore include Tan Wah Piow, now based in London, Britain; Kuo Pao Kun (since then commemorated with the Arts Medallion Award of Singapore); the late Devan Nair, a former President who disagreed with Lee Kuan Yew and then resigned the Presidency, with alcoholism cited as a reason, and Chia Thye Poh, who has the dubious honour of being Singapore's longest-serving political detainee - imprisoned for 23 years without trial under the Internal Security Act and then placed on house arrest on the island of Sentosa for 9 years. Chia has recently been allowed exile and visits in Germany where he has been lauded by the German government for protecting human rights and free speech in Asia. The Houses of Parliament and the clock tower containing Big Ben Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London (see Wiktionary:London for the name in other languages) is the capital of the United Kingdom and England. ... Chengara Veetil Devan Nair, also known as C. V. Devan Nair, (August 5, 1923–December 6, 2005) was the third President of Singapore and was elected by Parliament on October 23, 1981. ... Chia Thye Poh (b. ... Sentosa, which means tranquility in Malay, is a popular island resort in Singapore, visited by some two million people a year. ... Freedom of speech is the right to freely say what one pleases, as well as the related right to hear what others have stated. ...

Alleged influence on America

The rise of a successful model of East Asian Capitalist Authoritarianism as an alternative socio-political model of governance has been influencing the rise of the Republicans in the United States of America. The Republican Party was established in 1854 by a coalition of former Whigs, Northern Democrats, and Free-Soilers who opposed the expansion of slavery and held a Hamiltonian vision for modernizing the United States. ...

Especially attractive to the Republicans is the tremendous wealth created through the implementation of this model in the East Asian Tigers' system of government, sacrificing individual civil liberties and human rights for economic wealth generated by behemoth corporations and multi-national corporations. The rise of global corporatism in America with the rise of the Republicans, in Europe with the rise of the European Union and in Asia, with the rise of East Asian authorianism, has been attributed to globalised industrialisation which depends highly on capital flowing within corporations with offices throughout the world. The East Asian Tigers, sometimes also referred to as Asias Four Little Dragons, referred to the economies of Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore; these territories and nations were noted for maintaining high growth rates and rapid industrialization between the early 1960s and 1990s. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...

Increasing global dependence on capital from corporations to spur industrialisation and job growth been cited as a factor. The East Asian model, which includes the Capitalist Communist dictatorship in the People's Republic of China (China), Republic of Korea (South Korea). The Taiwanese and Hong Kong model of success based on democracy and human rights, ideas imported from the liberal faction of the West, has been gaining less ground due to economic stagnation in these highly developed Asian economies. East Asian authorianism is attributed to the rise of right-wing authoritarianism in the United States of America under the Presidency of George W. Bush and the Republican party. Look up liberal on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Political progressivism, a political ideology that is for change, often associated with liberal movements Liberty, the condition of being free from control or restrictions Liberal Party, members of... In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ... This article applies to political ideologies. ...

See also

• Tang Fong Har
• Internal Security Act
• Operation Spectrum