Sandrasegaran "Sidney" Woodhull was a Singaporean lawyer, former politician and political prisoner.
14 Facts About Sandrasegaran Woodhull
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Sandrasegaran Woodhull was a founding member of the University of Malaya's University Socialist Club, and the Singapore's political parties, People's Action Party and the Barisan Sosialis.
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Sandrasegaran Woodhull was a founding member of the University Socialist Club in 1953, serving as Financial Secretary in the first Central Working Committee.
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Sandrasegaran Woodhull was involved in the Fajar controversy because of his contribution to the Fajar magazine and occasional attendance at group meetings although he was not the member of the Fajar editorial board.
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Together with other trade unionists, Sandrasegaran Woodhull was officially recruited into the People's Action Party on 21 November 1954.
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Sandrasegaran Woodhull was detained by the police after the Chinese middle school riots in 1956.
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Sandrasegaran Woodhull was one of the thirteen PAP left-wingers who were expelled from the PAP on 20 July 1961, he later joined the Barisan Sosialis on 29 July 1961 as was made its Vice Chairman.
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On 26 October 1962, Sandrasegaran Woodhull married Peng Tsu Ping, who was a graduate of University of Malaya and a librarian at the University of Singapore at the Singapore Registry witnessed by Secretary-General of Barisan Sosialis Lim Chin Siong and Dr Gopal Baratham.
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Sandrasegaran Woodhull was against the PAP proposal for merger with Malaysian Federation, calling it a political "strait jacket".
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Sandrasegaran Woodhull was arrested and detained without trial under Operation Coldstore in February 1963.
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Sandrasegaran Woodhull returned to Kuala Lumpur where he was called to the Malaysian Bar in 1967.
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Sandrasegaran Woodhull was allowed to return to Singapore in 1990.
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Sandrasegaran Woodhull died on 26 November 2003 at the age of 71 at a Singapore Hospital after heart surgery.
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Sandrasegaran Woodhull is survived by his wife Peng, his daughters Anashuya and Anuita, his son Anshumann, and a granddaughter Lara Sayana Bell.