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(From left) DAP veterans Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng and Teresa Kok are suing PAS MP Siti Mastura Muhammad for defamation.
Do not let the racial and religious bigoted Kepala Batas MP Mastura get off scot free
Update
DAP trio’s suits against PAS MP to go to trial after mediation fails
Predeep Nambiar-15 May 2024, 01:38 PM
Lawyer SN Nair says the parties could not reach a settlement.
(From left) DAP veterans Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng and Teresa Kok are suing PAS MP Siti Mastura Muhammad for defamation.
GEORGE TOWN: The defamation suits brought by DAP leaders Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng and Teresa Kok will proceed to trial after mediation talks with Kepala Batas MP Siti Mastura Muhammad failed.
Lawyer SN Nair, representing the trio, said the parties could not reach a settlement over the suits filed against the PAS MP.
“No agreements were reached. We will proceed to trial,” Nair told FMT.
The trial is scheduled for six days in September at the High Court here. Justice Quay Chew Soon had advised the parties to enter into mediation on Feb 15, ahead of the trial.
Kit Siang and Guan Eng filed suits against Mastura in the High Court last November for alleging they had blood ties with former Communist Party of Malaya leader Chin Peng and late Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.
Mastura is alleged to have made the remarks during a speech in Kemaman, Terengganu, on Nov 4.
In her defence, Mastura said the facts were sourced from a book published by the Barisan Nasional communications department as part of the coalition’s 15th general election campaign material.
She also cited the same source for her claims that Kit Siang and Guan Eng were Lee’s cousins, and that Kok is a cousin of Betty Chew, Guan Eng’s wife.
In response to her defence, Kit Siang, Guan Eng and Kok said the “so-called campaign material had been debunked by BN deputy chairman Mohamad Hasan and former Umno Supreme Council member Isham Jalil” in a news report dated Nov 11, 2023.
The DAP trio said Mastura, who holds a PhD, should have conducted due diligence by checking the facts before making the remarks.
KUALA LUMPUR, May 15, 2024: What’s there to mediate?
The recalcitrant racist PAS Kepala Batas MP Siti Mastura Muhammad was given a chance to retract her ridiculous utterances but she refused.
Why should the DAP trio, Lim Kit Siang and his son (Bagan MP) Guan Eng and (Seputeh MP) Teresa Kok now let her get off scot free?
If they do, there will be no end to such slanderous lies spewed by racial and religious bigots.
No News Is Bad News reproduces below a news report on the DAP trio’s suit:
DAP trio, PAS MP in mediation talks over defamation suit
Nicholas Chung-15 May 2024, 11:35 AM
The George Town High Court has advised the parties to try settling the suit this way, says lawyer SN Nair.
(From left) DAP veterans Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng and Teresa Kok are suing PAS MP Siti Mastura Muhammad for defamation.
PETALING JAYA: DAP veterans Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng and Teresa Kok are holding mediation talks with Siti Mastura Muhammad today over their defamation suits against the PAS MP.
While the suits are scheduled for trial over six days in September, lawyer SN Nair told FMT that the George Town High Court had advised all parties to try resolving their dispute through mediation.
Nair, who is representing the DAP leaders, added that separate sessions have been scheduled for each of the clients and Mastura at Penang’s state court mediation centre.
Kit Siang and Mastura’s session started at 11am, with Guan Eng’s to follow at 12pm and Kok’s at 2.30pm.
Kit Siang and Guan Eng, the party chairman, filed suits in the High Court last November against Mastura for alleging they had blood ties with former Communist Party of Malaya leader Chin Peng and late Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.
Mastura is alleged to have made the remarks during a speech in Kemaman, Terengganu, on Nov 4.
In her defence, Mastura said the facts were sourced from a book published by the Barisan Nasional communications department as part of the coalition’s 15th general election campaign material.
She also cited the same source for her claims that Kit Siang and Guan Eng were Lee’s cousins, and that Kok is a cousin of Betty Chew, Guan Eng’s wife.
In response to her defence, Kit Siang, Guan Eng and Kok said the “so-called campaign material had been debunked by BN deputy chairman Mohamad Hasan and former Umno Supreme Council member Isham Jalil” in a news report dated Nov 11, 2023.
The DAP trio said Mastura, who holds a PhD, should have conducted due diligence by checking the facts before making the remarks.
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