Singapore detained two animal rights activists who were planning a naked demonstration outside a fast-food restaurant and will deport them on Friday, one of the pair told Reuters.
Ashley Fruno, a 20-year-old Canadian woman, had planned to protest at a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) outlet in downtown Singapore on Friday, wearing nothing but a banner reading "Naked Truth: KFC Tortures Chicks."
Fruno and Jason Baker, executive director of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), were questioned for nine hours by Singapore police on Thursday, Baker told Reuters. "We were detained for the whole of yesterday and we're going to be deported today," said Baker, a 34-year-old American.
"We can confirm that there was such a case," a police official told Reuters. He declined further comment.
Baker said the two had been told they would be banned from re-entering Singapore.
Public protests are rare in the city-state, which requires a police permit for all outdoors protests and for any gathering of more than four people. Security has been tightened ahead of the IMF-World Bank meetings taking place in Singapore next week.
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