(Petaling Jaya, Monday): DAP is still waiting for word from the Director-General of Prisons, Datuk Omar Mohamad Dan as to whether he would allow DAP Deputy Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Guan Eng, to attend the next Parliamentary meeting beginning on April 5, 1999.
DAP�s nation-wide "Justice For All" campaign will launch a new programme to allow Malaysians regardless of race, religion, political beliefs, gender or age an opportunity to send a clear and unmistakable message to the authorities concerned that when Parliament reconvenes, Guan Eng should be in Parliament to be the voice of the people and not in Kajang Prison.
I have said that the DAP will consider sending a delegation to the 101st
Inter-Parliamentary Conference in Brussels from April 11-16, 1999 which
will debate the report of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Fact-Finding Mission
to Malaysia on Guan Eng�s case as well as the decision of the IPU Committee
on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians in Geneva early this month which,
among other things, urged the Malaysian authorities to:
If the Malaysian IPU continues to exclude the DAP from the country delegation to the Brussels conference, I may personally attend the IPU Conference in Brussels to tell the world the true story about Guan Eng�s case and his prison conditions.
(1/3/99)