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 CIS NO: 89-H381-29
 TITLE: Recent Developments in Malaysia and Singapore, 1988.
 SOURCE: Committee on Foreign Affairs. House
 DOC TYPE: Hearing                   COLLATION: iii+288 p.
 DATE: July 7, Sept. 22, 1988
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 100-2             SUDOC: Y4.F76/1:M29
 ITEM NO: 1017-A; 1017-B
 LC CARD NO: 89-601006               MC ENTRY NO: 89-8363

 Hearing before the Subcom on Human Rights and International Organizations
 to review the human rights situation in Malaysia and Singapore in light of
 alleged 1987 politically motivated arrests.
   Supplementary material (p. 233-236, 253-261, 286-288) includes
 correspondence, submitted statements, and:
 -- H. Con. Res. 328, urging Singapore to release all persons who have been
     imprisoned without trial for their political views, text (p. 233-236).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Malaysia and Singapore human rights situation
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): SUBCOM ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND
     INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. HOUSE; MALAYSIA (Human rights situation);
     SINGAPORE (Human rights situation); ARREST; POLITICAL PRISONERS;
     FOREIGN.RELATIONS; PREVENTIVE DETENTION; HUMAN RIGHTS
 BILLS: 100 H.Con.Res.328

 89-H381-29 TESTIMONY NO: 1         July 7, 1988 p. 3-124, 198-232,
                                      237-252
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     SCHWARTZ, ERIC (Program Director and Counsel, Asia Watch Committee)
     JONES, ESTRELLITA (Asia Affairs Coordinator, Amnesty International)
     LENT, JOHN A. (Communications Professor, Temple University;
        representing Committee on Human Rights in Malaysia and Singapore)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Overview of Malaysia human rights situation;
     outline of human rights issues raised by Oct. 1987 arrests and
     continuing preventive detention (related correspondence, p. 198-211);
     critique of Malaysia Government rationale for detentions based on racial
     tension concerns; criticism of viewed political motivation of
     detentions.
       Concerns about alleged Government efforts to limit Malaysian judiciary
     authority to prosecute human rights cases; background on Singapore human
     rights situation; details of human rights concerns relating to Singapore
     1987 arrest and subsequent detention of persons accused of conspiracy to
     establish a Communist Government in Singapore (related statement,
     correspondence, p. 212-232, 237-244).
       Doubted validity of conspiracy accusations; support for H. Con. Res.
     328; critical assessment of Malaysia and Singapore internal security
     laws used to justify arrests and detentions; analysis and examples of
     Malaysia and Singapore restrictions on press freedom; perspectives on
     U.S. response to Malaysia and Singapore human rights issues.
 INSERTION: 
     -- Committee To Protect Journalists and International Centre on
        Censorship, "Press Abuse in Malaysia and Singapore" Sept. 1988 (p.
        245-252).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Malaysia and Singapore human rights situation
 DESCRIPTORS: MINORITY GROUPS; ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE; COMMUNISM AND
     COMMUNIST PARTIES; FOREIGN.LAWS; FREEDOM OF THE PRESS; SECURITY;
     ASIA WATCH COMMITTEE; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; COMMITTEE ON HUMAN
     RIGHTS IN MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE

 89-H381-29 TESTIMONY NO: 2         Sept. 22, 1988 p. 126-162, 262-285
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     FARRAND, ROBERT W. (Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Human
        Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Department of State)
     LAMBERTSON, DAVID F. (Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian
        and Pacific Affairs)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Critical assessment of the human rights
     situation in Malaysia and Singapore; analysis of human rights issues
     relating to recent arrests and detentions in context of overall U.S.
     relations with Malaysia and Singapore.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Malaysia and Singapore human rights situation
 DESCRIPTORS: DEPARTMENT.OF.STATE

 89-H381-29 TESTIMONY NO: 3         Sept. 22, 1988 p. 162-197
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     GRAY, CHARLES D. (Executive Director, Asian-American Free Labor
        Institute, AFL-CIO)
 STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION: Concerns about human rights in Malaysia and
     Singapore, focusing on Government restrictions on freedom of association
     for trade union members.
 INSERTION: 
     -- AFL-CIO, "Petition on Malaysia" submitted to U.S. Trade
        Representative, June 1, 1988 (p. 176-193).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Malaysia and Singapore human rights situation
 DESCRIPTORS: LABOR UNIONS; FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION; AFL-CIO