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About Fan Yew Teng
- Fan Yew Teng (??? 12 May 1942 – 7 December 2010) was former Acting Secretary-General of the Democratic Action Party, Malaysia, former Member of Parliament for Kampar (elected in 1969) and Menglembu (elected in 1974), and former Selangor State Assemblyman for Petaling Jaya.
- He was arrested in 1969 and later charged under the Sedition Act for publishing, as editor of DAP's The Rocket, a speech by Dr.
- Ooi Kee Saik, then Penang DAP Chairman.
- He was eventually convicted for sedition in 1975.
- Fan was then disqualified from Parliament and denied all MP privileges, including his pension.
- He kept his parliamentary seat until 1977, when the Privy Council upheld the decision of the High Court.
- Fan left DAP over differences in 1978 to join Social Democratic Party (SDP).
- He rejoined the DAP in 1998, during the transformative period of Reformasi in Malaysia.
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