SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore police and opposition activists were locked in a stand-off in a downtown park as authorities blocked a planned protest march past the venue for the annual IMF-World Bank meetings on Saturday.
About 30 police formed a human barricade for more than nine hours around Chee Soon Juan, secretary-general of the tiny Singapore Democratic Party, and six other activists after Chee tried to lead a march from Singapore's Speakers' Corner to the Suntec convention centre where the meetings are being held.
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