| By Elena Chong | ||
 |  | Chia Ti Lik (left) was fined for taking part in an assembly and procession without a permit with more than a dozen people last year. --PHOTO: ST |
Chia Ti Lik, 35, and Surayah Akbar, 26, had been on trial with 12 others for 13 days before they decided to plead guilty. Chia was fined $800 on each of the two offences commited on March 15, 2008, while Surayan was fined a total of $1,200.
They are the fifth and sixth persons to plead guilty while the trial against the remaining 13 is on-going.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Isaac Tan said no one was permitted to hold any assembly or procession consisting of two or more persons within a specified area.
The Singapore Democratic Party planned to stage a protest rally at Parliament House that day but its application was rejected. Despite this, SDP went ahead with the assembly to protest against 'exploitative price hikes''.
Chia and Surayah, dressed in red T-shirts, took part in the assembly with the other co-accused.
During the assembly, Chia and other participants spoke and shouted slogans. Five of the co-accused also held up placards during the assembly. Police warned them to stop and disperse as they had gathered without a permit.
Despite the warning, Chia and the rest, except for one, held a procession from Parliament House drive-way to Funan DigitaLife Mall down the road, holding their placards as they walked towards the mall.
The participants ignored a further warning by police to cease their procession and stop displaying the placards.
The other four who have been fined $1,200 each are: Ng E-Jay, 31, Jeffrey George, 45, Muhammad Jufri Mohd Salim, 26, and Govinda Rajan Surian, 46. Jufri did not pay the fine and served an eight-day jail sentence while Rajan's appeal against sentence is pending.
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