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March 15, 2008
10 arrested for protesting against rising prices
SINGAPORE police on Saturday
SINGAPORE police on Saturday arrested 10 people for holding a
rally without a permit to protest against rising living costs,
witnesses said.
Leading pro-democracy activist Chee Soon Juan was among the
group who were bundled into police vans after plainclothes officers
stopped them in front of a shopping mall in the business district,
an AFP reporter and photographer said.
Chee is the leader of the Singapore Democratic Party, one of a
handful of opposition parties in the city-state, which has been
ruled by the People's Action Party since 1959.
About 18 protesters, including children, had earlier gathered
outside parliament where they symbolically laid groceries on a
sidewalk.
The police then stopped them just minutes after setting off for
the Orchard Road shopping area, where they had planned another
protest.
They wore red t-shirts with the words 'we cannot take it
anymore' while others carried placards denouncing rising
prices.
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arrested after ignoring police calls to disperse and lay down their
placards, the witnesses said. Chee's activist sister was also
apprehended.
Singapore, scarred by racial riots in the 1960s, has strict laws
against public assembly, which require a police permit for a
gathering of five or more people. -- AFP
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I mean..if Chee can't take it anymore, how about finding a job
to defray some costs 
..bloody hell..take kids go protest....
