Career
He calls himself a "free speech activist". Tan, a Malaysian of Chinese descent, was a Law student at the National University of Singapore. He uploaded videos to his blog of himself having sex with his girlfriend Vivian Lee, while inviting others to join in.
The opposition to these videos, as pornography is illegal in both Malaysia and Singapore, led to Tan being stripped of his Association of Southeast Asian Nations scholarship for the university.
Pressured by their families, the couple shut down their blog. Tan and his girlfriend posed for a photograph while eating pork and uploaded it to Facebook as a Ramadan greeting, which led to them being put on trial for sedition.
They pleaded not guilty, but were jailed without bail until the conclusion of the trial. He says that
If all else fails, I can easily publish more "seditious" materials on my Facebook to taunt the authorities and get them to be hot on the pursuit of me again, therefore creating an even more well-founded fear of political persecution to bolster my asylum claim.
In November 2015, Tan again caused controversy when he uploaded onto Facebook a comic strip of photographs of himself defecating, and then wiping his anus with pages of the Quran, the Islamic holy book
During his trial, Malaysia"s Attorney General Abdul Gani Patail said that Tan"s Ramadan photograph was likely to be the motive to a religiously-aggravated assault on a Chinese manitoba Upon his arrival in the California, United States, Alvin began working as a professional pornographic film director and actor.