“They felt it was important enough to stay for as long as possible in order for them to show their commitment to the cause,” he said. Mr Ng, who claimed that he was invited to be part of the protest at the very last minute, said that he accepted the invitation because it “was a way of showing the people and the Government the importance of the equal and fair treatment of people of all gender expressions and identities in schools”.Īsked why the others did not leave with him, Mr Ng said that they remained because of “the strength of their convictions”, though he did not know what happened after he left the scene. I and another person decided to leave at that point.” “Before that, I had agreed (with the others) that I would not put myself on the line to be arrested due to my loved one’s concern. Then later, after maybe two to three minutes, a security staff in uniform told us to disperse,” the playwright and LGBTQ activist told TODAY. “He came out to say to Kirsten that she shouldn’t be taking photos. Singaporean writer Ng Yi-Sheng, who was one of the five who had initially been part of Tuesday’s protest, recounted how “plain-clothed” personnel approached them less than a minute after they held up the placards at MOE. He was charged in November last year with staging a one-man protest without permit after he held up a piece of cardboard with a smiley face drawn on it. Some of the protesters were pictured wearing masks with a smiley face, a symbol popularised by civil rights activist Jolovan Wham. It is not known if they were among the three who were arrested.
Two protesters named in statement are student activist Lune Loh and Elijah Tay, founder of LGBTQ group My Queer Story SG. The plus-sign in LGBTQ+ signifies a desire to be inclusive to all representations of sexual orientations and gender identities. In a statement issued by the group who is alleged to have assembled illegally, it said that they were a group of students and supporters staging a peaceful demonstration to call on Education Minister Lawrence Wong to end discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community in schools.
The trio have since been released on bail at around 10pm and police investigations are ongoing. “The three refused to comply despite the police’s repeated warnings and were arrested under the Public Order Act at around 5.35pm,” the statement read.įive placards, two multi-coloured flags and a blue bag were seized, the police said. The remaining trio had ignored the police’s warnings to stop their activities and the police then issued them with a direction to stop their protest and warned that they would be arrested if they failed to do so. When the police arrived, only three of the protesters were there.įreelance journalist and activist Kirsten Han, who posted the images on her Twitter account on Tuesday, said that two of the five protesters left after security officers showed up to ask them to leave. The police said in a statement on Tuesday that the group outside MOE’s headquarters had allegedly gathered at around 5pm even though they did not have a permit to carry out the public assembly. It sparked a debate on the discrimination that students who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) are facing in schools. Recently, an 18-year-old junior college student alleged that the ministry had prevented her from obtaining a doctor's referral letter to begin hormone replacement therapy. Some of the placards read “#Fix schools not students” and “Why are we not in your sex ed”.
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On Tuesday (Jan 26) afternoon, images circulating on social media showed five young people outside the building along Buona Vista Drive holding up placards, a rainbow-coloured pride flag and a transgender flag with pale-pink and blue stripes. SINGAPORE - Three people, aged 19 to 32, were arrested after they staged a protest outside the headquarters of the Ministry of Education (MOE), the police said.
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