The Long Nightmare: My 17 Years as a Political PrisonerAutobiography of Said Zahari, a Malay journalist in the 1950s and 60s and political prisoner in Singapore. |
Contents
Foreword Nik Anuar Nik Mahmud | x |
Foreword Lily Zubaidah Rahim | xx |
Dedication | xxvii |
Poems from Prison | xliv |
Part I | 1 |
From Home to Prison | 17 |
Unpleasant Dreams | 23 |
The Outram Prison Commotion | 33 |
My Comrades Lim Chin Siong and Ho Piao | 86 |
Pressure on Lee Kuan Yews Regime | 90 |
The Plen Replies | 97 |
Nanyang University | 103 |
Usman Awang and Utusan Melayu | 114 |
The Marxist Conspiracy | 133 |
Statement of ExDetainees of Operation Spectrum | 141 |
Four Presidents I Knew | 147 |
Realities of Life | 39 |
School of Politics and Solitary Confinement | 49 |
Our Struggle in Prison | 55 |
Hunger Strike | 61 |
Carrots and Sticks | 69 |
Freedom But at What Price? | 78 |
My Gratitude to Dr Mahathir | 155 |
Leader or Thinker? | 161 |
From Penang to Cameron Highlands | 171 |
The 2001 Award for Press Freedom | 182 |
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