Cloverdale’s Ashley Fruno has a history of shedding her clothes to fight against animal cruelty.

But Singapore would not have any of her antics and has sent her packing.

Fruno, 20, and two other animal rights advocates - Sonia Astudillo of the Philippines, and Jason Baker, an American citizen based in Hong Kong – were tracked by Singapore cops after they received calls reporting that the trio had been “behaving suspiciously.”

They were ordered to leave the country last week.

The trio from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, planned a demonstration in which two women were to stand outside a local KFC restaurant, each wearing nothing but a banner reading “Naked Truth: KFC Tortures Chicks,”.

PETA said the protest was canceled.

“We think that Singaporeans have the right to know what happens to chickens before their dismembered bodies wind up in KFC buckets,” says Ashley on the PETA website. “We were treated like criminals, when the real crime is the way that KFC tortures millions of helpless birds.”

Although her mother grew up on a dairy farm and her grandfather was president of the local rodeo board, Fruno has always cared about animals. At age 7, she found a vein in a chicken nugget and instantly made a connection between her own body and the corpse on her plate. At 14, she led a petition drive to stop a local pet store from giving away live animals as prizes. Now Fruno has been a PETA member for two years and is responsible for the daily leafleting outside a KFC in Vancouver, where she leads a local animal protection group.

The group staged a similar protest outside a KFC restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand, last month.

Singapore police said in a statement they deployed officers to find and interview the activists in response to calls reporting that the trio had been “behaving suspiciously.” The statement did not give details of what the activists were doing nor identify the callers.

“Based on their profile and records, police assessed that they would be participating in an anti-KFC campaign as PETA activists and will speak without a permit,” the police statement said.

Police said the three were asked to leave the city-state and that Singapore’s immigration authorities had canceled their social visit passes.

Singapore has been tightening security measures ahead of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank on September 19 to 20.

Singapore says it will strictly bar outdoor demonstrations, which even under normal circumstances are rarely seen in the city-state because of tight restrictions on expression.

Its leaders say such controls have helped turn the tiny resource-poor island into one of Asia’s economic powerhouses.

Fruno, who is well known as an animal rights activist, has stood naked outside department stores to protest them selling fur, debated the seal hunt on network TV and urged people to boycott the Cloverdale rodeo in B.C.

In interviews published by local newspapers, she said she spends two to three hours a day organizing demonstrations against cruelty to animals, writing letters about animals to government and the media, and mobilizing people on behalf of animals.

She has been punched, had food thrown at her and is regularly assaulted verbally for her beliefs.