repeatedly called for the abolition of the Internal Security Act (ISA). In 1980, Amnesty International issued a public statement naming Lim as a "prisoner of conscience." In September 2011, together with 15 former ISA detainees, he issued two joint statements calling for the abolition of the Act and the setting up of an independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate the allegations made against ISA detainees. Lim also sued book publisher Editions Didier Millet, the National Library Board, Peter Lim and Tien Wah Press in 2011 over a news item in a book, Chronicle Of Singapore: Fifty Years Of Headline News (1959-2009). Medical career After his release from detention, Lim worked at the Rakyat Clinic (人民药房) along Balestier Road as a general practitioner, together with Dr Abu Bakar. He not only dispensed free medicine for poor patients, but also gave them transport money to go home. Personal life Lim was the second of ten children of a fishmonger. Lim married Dr Beatrice Chen in October 1961 and their only son was born in 1962. Death Lim had been suffering from kidney failure for three years since 2009 but, according to his family, had otherwise been in good health until he bumped his head at home at the end of May 2012 and was sent to hospital. He was in stable condition at the Parkway East Hospital, but experienced a fatal heart attack at 10:30 PM on 4 June 2012. Lim's funeral was held on 8 June 2012 and he was cremated on the same day at the crematorium at Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery. References 1931 births 2012 deaths Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Singapore Singaporean prisoners and detainees University of Malaya alumni Singaporean general practitioners Singaporean people of Hokkien descent Singaporean healthcare managers 20th-century Singaporean physicians People's Action Party politicians Barisan Sosialis politicians