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At last DAP takes legal action against Taliban-like PAS MP Siti Mastura
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 29, 2023: So, it is not NATO (No Action Talk Only) only for the DAP and its leaders.
The party and its leaders have finally found the courage to go after the Taliban-like PAS leaders who have been slandering and spewing racial and religious bigotry since the 15th General Election but the DAP had not responded with any legal action.
Party elder Lim Kit Siang, Bagan MP and DAP adviser Lim Guan Eng and Seputeh MP Teresa Kok today filed defamation suits against the PAS’ Kepala Batas MP Siti Mastura Mohamad for alleging they had blood ties with former Communist Party of Malaya leader Chin Peng and late Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.
Siti Mastura is a PhD (doctorate) from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM).
No News Is Bad News reproduces below a news report on the filing of the suit:
DAP trio file defamation suits against Siti Mastura
Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng and Teresa Kok say the PAS MP’s remarks damaged their reputation.
FMT Reporters - 29 Nov 2023, 12:27pm
DAP trio Lim Guan Eng, Teresa Kok and Lim Kit Siang have filed a defamation suit against PAS’s Kepala Batas MP Siti Mastura Mohamad for remarks in a speech in Kemaman on Nov 4.
PETALING JAYA: Three DAP leaders have filed separate defamation suits against PAS’s Kepala Batas MP Siti Mastura Mohamad for alleging they had blood ties with former Communist Party of Malaya leader Chin Peng and late Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.
In the suits filed by Messrs SN Nair & Partners in the Penang High Court two days ago, Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng and Teresa Kok are seeking damages for both libel and slander against Siti Mastura for damaging their reputations.
The trio also want the High Court to issue an injunction preventing Siti Mastura from uttering, writing, publishing or distributing the same or similar statements.
Siti Mastura is alleged to have made the remarks in a speech in Kemaman, Terengganu, on Nov 4.
According to the statements of claim filed, snippets of her speech were subsequently posted on TikTok two days later.
“The impugned video clips … garnered more than 17,200 views, 496 comments, 264 ‘likes’, 70 ‘saves’ and 178 shares, as at the date of the filing of the suit,” the statements of claim read.
Siti Mastura, the PAS women’s wing deputy chief, is also alleged to have said that DAP secretary-general Loke Siew Fook, vice-president Nga Kor Ming and Beruas MP Ngeh Koo Ham had blood relations with the family of Kit Siang and Guan Eng.
On Nov 10, Kit Siang, Guan Eng and Kok demanded that Siti Mastura retract and apologise for her remarks. However, last week, she denied their claims.
The contents of Siti Mastura’s speech were also reported in the media.
In the statements of claim, the three DAP leaders alleged that Siti Masura also implied they subscribed and ascribed to communist ideologies by claiming blood-related connections with Chin Peng.
They said by virtue of the family connections, Siti Mastura claimed that the trio, together with Lee and DAP leaders Loke, Nga and Ngeh, had perpetuated a Chinese communist conspiracy that was detrimental to the security and democracy of Malaysia.
“As a result of the impugned slanderous words and/or the impugned libellous words, (the plaintiffs’) reputation has been irreparably damaged wherein (their) character and social creditworthiness have been severely tarnished, degraded and exposed to, inter alia, severe public ridicule, scandal, hatred, odium, condemnation, humiliation, and opprobrium,” the filings said.
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