Int'l group denounces KL

Thu, 03 Dec 1998, 00:00 WIB | Source: REUTERS

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters): Legislators representing a global
rights watchdog condemned the Malaysian government on Wednesday
over a jailed opposition leader, adding to international
criticism of Kuala Lumpur's rights record.

Representatives of the human rights committee of the Inter-
Parliamentary Union (IPU) said Malaysian authorities had shown an
almost unprecedented lack of cooperation during their three-day
visit to the capital.

Prison authorities rejected a request by the three-member
delegation to meet privately with Lim Guan Eng, an imprisoned
member of parliament and leader of Malaysia's opposition
Democratic Action Party, the IPU representatives said.

Lim was convicted of sedition and sentenced to two concurrent
18-month prison terms this year for criticizing the government's
handling of allegations of statutory rape against a former state
chief minister.

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