I may personally attend the  IPU Conference in Brussels in April to tell the world the true story  about Guan Eng’s case and his prison conditions if the  Malaysian IPU excludes the  DAP from its  delegation

(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:
 

• ensure Guan Eng’s attendance in the forthcoming Parliamentary meeting starting on April 5;
• grant full pardon to Guan Eng as he was "merely exercising his right to freedom of speech and his function of oversight  of the Executive" when making the statements which resulted in his prosecution and jail sentence.

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)