Singapore Falun Gong Practitioners on Hunger Strike Face Prison
Punishment
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The Epoch Times
May 01, 2005
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Two Falun Gong practitioners who are on a hunger strike in prison
to protest their court sentence may be given a written warning or
placed in a punishment cell.
According to the Strait Times report, a prison spokesman said that
refusing to eat was an offence under the Prisons Act. If found
guilty, they could be placed in a punishment cell or given a
written warning. They will be placed on a glucose drip should their
health be in danger.
The women Ng Chye Huay and Cheng Lujin were ordered to pay fines of
20,000 and 24,000 Singapore Dollars (US $12,216 and $14,660),
respectively. Insisting on their innocence, both refused to pay and
have launched an appeal. They are currently in jail, and both are
hunger striking to object to the decision.
Cheng Lujin has a six-month-old daughter to be cared for. She
requested that her daughter be taken to her in prison, but the
judge has refused her request. Cheng Lujin has been on a hunger
strike since she entered the prison.
