DAP trio file defamation suits against Mastura
Published on: Wednesday, November 29, 2023
By: FMT
DAP trio Lim Guan Eng, Teresa Kok and Lim Kit Siang have filed a defamation suit against PAS’s Kepala Batas MP Siti Mastura Muhammad 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 Muhammad 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 Mastura for damaging their reputations.
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The trio also want the High Court to issue an injunction preventing Mastura from uttering, writing, publishing or distributing the same or similar statements.
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.
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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 Mastura retract and apologise for her remarks. However, last week, she denied their claims.
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The contents of Mastura’s speech were also reported in the media.
In the statements of claim, the three DAP leaders alleged that Mastura 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, 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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