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12-10-2014, 05:40 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
NPARKS 'REVOKED' THE PERMIT OF CPF PROTESTORS ON THE MORNING OF THE PROTEST
Post date:
11 Oct 2014 - 8:04pm
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At least 8 participants of the Return Our CPF protest were summoned down to the Police Cantonment Complex and told to attend interviews about their involvement in the protest last month which clashed with a Charity event.
The police interrogated the participants for between 2 to 5 hours with protest organiser Ms Han Hui Hui interrogated for 8 hours.
The Police had been questioning the participants as they believed a case of unlawful assembly had occurred.
This is despite the fact that Ms Han had applied for a permit and been approved to hold a protest and march around Hong Lim Park previously.
The problem was that this permit was apparently revoked on the morning of the protest.
Those who were brought down for questioning were asked if they knew that the permit had been revoked and were also asked about their relationships with the chief organiser Ms Han Hui Hui and also protest speaker Mr Roy Ngerng.
The revoking of the permit had apparently happened just hours before the Protest was to occur at Hong Lim Park.
Ms Han Hui Hui had been approached by several men in plain clothes with one man claiming to be the Director of NParks.
The men had failed to properly identify themselves as the man claiming to be the NParks director could only show his NParks namecard which did not indicate that he was the director.
As only the commissioner has the right to revoke the permit if there has been a breach of the terms and conditions, the protesters were not informed correctly that the permit had been revoked.
Despite the obvious lack of official paperwork or identification, it seems that the police have considered this exchange to have been the revocation of the permit and have therefore decided that the protest was an unlawful gathering.
However, if the police, who were also present at the protest in plain clothes, had known that the permit was indeed revoked at that point, why didn’t they inform the participants of the illegal status of the protest to stop it from occurring in the first place?
If the permit had indeed been revoked at that point, why didn’t police and NParks act immediately instead of only taking action to interrogate and intimidate the participants two weeks later?
By this time, the mainstream media and many PAP MPs and ministers have taken the chance to throw mud at the protesters and Ms Han for “heckling” special needs children. If the police had really been aware from the start, why wasn’t action taken any sooner?
It seems that the Police may just be trying to put more pressure on the activists seeing as they had gathered a lot of support. This whole incident casts doubts on the purpose of the police. If they wanted to prevent an unlawful assembly, they could have told the protesters on the day to move on as they were not permitted to gather.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?191828-Shameless-FAP-Spin-NPARKS-REVOKED-THE-PERMIT-OF-CPF-PROTESTORS-ON-THE-MORNING-OF-T&goto=newpost).
NPARKS 'REVOKED' THE PERMIT OF CPF PROTESTORS ON THE MORNING OF THE PROTEST
Post date:
11 Oct 2014 - 8:04pm
http://therealsingapore.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/protesters-led-by-han-hui_0.jpg?itok=Hqub5f_5 (http://therealsingapore.com/sites/default/files/field/image/protesters-led-by-han-hui_0.jpg)
At least 8 participants of the Return Our CPF protest were summoned down to the Police Cantonment Complex and told to attend interviews about their involvement in the protest last month which clashed with a Charity event.
The police interrogated the participants for between 2 to 5 hours with protest organiser Ms Han Hui Hui interrogated for 8 hours.
The Police had been questioning the participants as they believed a case of unlawful assembly had occurred.
This is despite the fact that Ms Han had applied for a permit and been approved to hold a protest and march around Hong Lim Park previously.
The problem was that this permit was apparently revoked on the morning of the protest.
Those who were brought down for questioning were asked if they knew that the permit had been revoked and were also asked about their relationships with the chief organiser Ms Han Hui Hui and also protest speaker Mr Roy Ngerng.
The revoking of the permit had apparently happened just hours before the Protest was to occur at Hong Lim Park.
Ms Han Hui Hui had been approached by several men in plain clothes with one man claiming to be the Director of NParks.
The men had failed to properly identify themselves as the man claiming to be the NParks director could only show his NParks namecard which did not indicate that he was the director.
As only the commissioner has the right to revoke the permit if there has been a breach of the terms and conditions, the protesters were not informed correctly that the permit had been revoked.
Despite the obvious lack of official paperwork or identification, it seems that the police have considered this exchange to have been the revocation of the permit and have therefore decided that the protest was an unlawful gathering.
However, if the police, who were also present at the protest in plain clothes, had known that the permit was indeed revoked at that point, why didn’t they inform the participants of the illegal status of the protest to stop it from occurring in the first place?
If the permit had indeed been revoked at that point, why didn’t police and NParks act immediately instead of only taking action to interrogate and intimidate the participants two weeks later?
By this time, the mainstream media and many PAP MPs and ministers have taken the chance to throw mud at the protesters and Ms Han for “heckling” special needs children. If the police had really been aware from the start, why wasn’t action taken any sooner?
It seems that the Police may just be trying to put more pressure on the activists seeing as they had gathered a lot of support. This whole incident casts doubts on the purpose of the police. If they wanted to prevent an unlawful assembly, they could have told the protesters on the day to move on as they were not permitted to gather.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?191828-Shameless-FAP-Spin-NPARKS-REVOKED-THE-PERMIT-OF-CPF-PROTESTORS-ON-THE-MORNING-OF-T&goto=newpost).