He is allowed two visits from his family and friends per month - a 20-minute face to face meeting in prison (via a telephone through a glass screen. This is the first time Yuen has spoken publicly about his fate. The perverse twist is that it was the colonial British who introduced caning to Singapore in the first place. On a human level, though, few outside the former Crown colony, in South East Asia, would wish to inflict such retribution on him, on anyone, whatever the circumstances. The treatment meted out to individuals like Ye Ming Yuen, barbaric by western standards, is why many Singaporeans feel they can stroll the streets and ride the subway in comfort and safety at midnight. He was also using drugs himself and might have escaped jail altogether in this country if he had been prosecuted for the lesser offence of possession rather than supply, as is increasingly happening.īut ‘soft justice’ Britain is in the grip of a violent, and often drug related, crimewave which is claiming young lives on an almost daily basis, whereas Singapore, with its unflinching, uncompromising approach to law enforcement, is one of the safest places in the world.
He was a first-time offender and the quantity of drugs seized was relatively small. In Britain, Yuen could have expected to receive a 12-month sentence at most. Yuen (pictured at school), 29, who went to £37,000-a-year Westminster School, will be stripped naked and strapped to a large wooden trestle His plight, revealed by this newspaper a week ago, prompted Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and his officials to make it clear that Britain ‘strongly opposes the use of corporal punishment’.
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‘I know the skin normally tears after three strokes and that it will be very painful.’ I just pray I don’t faint half-way through because I’ll have to return to finish my punishment later. I think about doing breathing exercises between each stroke to help me deal with the pain. ‘I’ve heard so many horror stories from fellow inmates who have been caned, of scars left on them, of canes breaking during the punishment and having to be replaced and how, after every few strokes, the caner is replaced to ensure each stroke is of the same intensity. ‘Of course, I’m scared,’ he says hesitantly. Yuen will receive little warning of the caning, so he lives in a state of permanent anxiety he has been prescribed sleeping pills and drugs to stabilise his mood. Pictured is a Changi prison officer using a dummy to demonstrate how inmates are caned
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It’s wonderful how all our gay activists over the years have fought the good fight and won so much for all of us and future generations of gays.Yuen's ‘judicial corporal punishment’ – which will be inflicted by a ‘trained caner’ taught how to cause the most pain possible. I knew a guy who once told me that he only could feel alive in summer on fire Islan, the rest of the year in upstate New York where he was a teacher, he had no social life, no outwardly gay experiences or appearances.
So as you smugly criticize these guys in the film, I urge other viewers to try to place yourselves in their shoes, and imagine what gay life was in 1976. mere suspicion of being gay, or even unmarried beyond a certain undefined age, could be grounds for loosing government jobs, and of course, no security clearances for gays. These Fire Island frolicers were all born during the gay bashing and gay witch hunts of the lavender scare, under Sen Joe McCarthy and NY asshole closet case lawyer Roy Cohen.
The military was weeding out gays left and right. Gay marriage was not even on the radar screen yet. If a pair did become known in the non-gay world, your partner was known as your “friend” or your “roommate”. It was the era of “couples” always having separate apartments, not talking about the other at work or school, or among straight friends. Society didn’t like it, families raised eyebrows. In those days, many guys wee gay on weekends, straight acting Monday through Friday. Society was very anti-gay, the gay community had lots of internalized homophobia, and whenever and wherever pockets of freedom existed, of course there were excesses that cover compensated for what most of their lives were previously, and for the majority, off of Fire Island. They did not get to have boy friends in junior high (now called middle school), high school, any many even in college. Aren’t you prissy and sanctimonious? In 1976, most visitors to Fire Island had never known the freedom and self-acceptance of living “openly gay”, “Out”, in their daily lives wherever they originally came from.