Chee Soon Juan is the leader of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party (SDP). He was sacked as a lecturer by the National University of Singapore when he joined the SDP and took part in an election in 1992. Chee was also censured by the Singapore Parliament and fined by a parliamentary select committee. He has been imprisoned more than a dozen times for repeatedly challenging the ruling People's Action Party's (PAP) curbs on political freedom.
Chee is the author of several books as well as contributed chapters in other books. He was Research Associate at Monash Asia Institute (1997), Human Rights Fellow at University of Chicago (2001), and the Reagan-Fascell Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy (2004).
Chee Soon Juan is currently a visiting fellow at the Sydney Democracy Network.
Honours
Defender of Democracy Award (2003) given by the Parliamentarians for Global Action. Prize for Freedom (2011) given by Liberal International. The Hellman/Hammett Writers Grant by Human Rights Watch.
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