KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 24 -- DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng has pledged to continue calling for the restoration of Parliament so that the voices of ordinary Malaysians can be heard.

He said he will do so despite being informed by his lawyer RSN Rayer of police investigations against him for making such a call.

"However I refuse to be silenced and will continue to press for a return to Parliamentary democracy immediately to ensure that a government elected by the people can be restored," Lim said in a statement.

He also echoed the sentiments of United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres, who said on Monday that the world is facing a "pandemic of human rights abuses" as nations use emergency measures to suppress basic freedoms by ...