Ladies and
Gentlemen,
The respected Foreign Policy Magazine, Washington DC Magazine of
May 07, 2010, has voted Gopalan Nair one of the "World's Top
Dissidents". Among others voted are Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma; Simar
Samer, Afghanistan; Arnold Tsunga, Zimbabwe; Anwar Ibrahim,
Malaysia; Shirin Ebadi, Iran; and Gopalan Nair,
Singapore.
This is what Foreign Policy Magazine said about Gopalan Nair,
Singapore:
Gopalan Nair: Nair, a former opposition politician, is known
throughout Singapore's embattled blogosphere for his fierce
promotion of human rights and blunt criticism of founding leader
and current "minister mentor" Lee Kuan Yew.
In
September 2008, Nair was sentenced to three months in jail for
defaming a judge in a blog entry.
On March
6, he published a hoax post on his blog indicating that Lee had
suffered a heart attack and had been brought to Singapore General
Hospital. Nair's motive?
It was,
he says, "a deliberate attempt to highlight how tenuous Singapore
really is, with all power in the island vested in one man, and the
dire consequences to the island of his
parting.
And
especially so as [Lee] is 87." Nair lives in California and has
been a U.S. citizen since 2004.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/05/07/the_worlds_top_dissidents?page=0,6
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http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/2010/11/foreign-policy-magazine-votes-gopalan.html