Fan Yew Teng

Fan Yew Teng (Chinese: 范俊登, Tamil: பான் இயூ தெங், romanized: Pāṉ Iyū Teṅ; 12 May 1942[1] – 7 December 2010) was a Malaysian human rights activist, educator, trade unionist, politician, and writer.

He served as the Acting Secretary-General of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for Kampar and Menglembu, and an Assemblyman in the Selangor State Legislative Assembly for Petaling Jaya.

[2] He received a Certificate in Education (CertEd) from the University of Birmingham in 1962, after attending and graduating from the Malayan Teacher Training College in Featherstone, near Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom.

[5] During the 1976–77 academic year, he was a Parvin Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs at Princeton University.

[6] Fan's political career was marred by many trials and tribulations, including his infamous conviction under the Sedition Act in 1975 and subsequent disqualification from the Menglembu parliamentary seat.

[7] Fan was disqualified after he was fined RM2,000 in default six months’ jail for publishing a "seditious" speech by the then Penang DAP chairman Dr Ooi Kee Siak the in party organ The Rocket.

Oppressors and Apologists was banned when first published in 1988