Anwar Ibrahim

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• Sidang Media Pakatan Rakyat
• New Investigation Into Film Maker That Took Millions From Malaysia
• KEADILAN Fully Supports YB Fuziah Salleh And The Anty-LYNAS Movement
• ‘Pristine Condition’ Of Rectal Swabs Puzzles Expert
• Anwar Difitnah Dan Bukan Pemecah Belah Perpaduan Melayu – Islam

Sidang Media Pakatan Rakyat Posted: 26 Aug 2011 02:41 PM PDT Dimaklumkan bahawa satu sidang media akan diadakan selepas Perbincangan Mejabulat Ekonomi Pakatan Rakyat mengenai Gaji Minimum. Sidang media ini akan diadakan seperti berikut: Tarikh : 27 Ogos 2011 (Sabtu) Masa : 11.30 pagi Tempat : Bilik Mesyuarat, Bangunan Ibu Pejabat PKR, Tropicana, Petaling jaya Antara yang akan menghadiri sidang akhbar ini adalah YB Dato'Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan para Pimpinan Kanan Pakatan Rakyat yang meanggotai Jawatankuasa Bajet Alternatif Pakatan Rakyat. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

New Investigation Into Film Maker That Took Millions From Malaysia Posted: 26 Aug 2011 02:37 PM PDT Independent Press corps in Kuala Lumpur all knew FBC had close links to the Malaysian government with special access One of America’s most prestigious magazines, the 154-year-old The Atlantic, has become the latest high-profile news organisation to launch an investigation into its relationship with a media company that was allocated millions of pounds by the Malaysian government. The Washington-based magazine and website is “reviewing all transactions” it had with FBC, a media company that also produced television programmes for the BBC and the business channel CNBC. The Independent revealed this month that FBC had been hired by Malaysia in a “global strategic communications campaign”. The FBC programmes broadcast on BBC World News dealt with contentious issues including Malaysia’s treatment of its indigenous peoples, its management of rainforests and its controversial palm-oil industry. The BBC said: “FBC has now admitted to the BBC that it has worked for the Malaysian government. That information was not disclosed to the BBC as we believe it should have been when the BBC contracted programming from FBC. Given this, the BBC has decided to transmit no more programming from FBC while it reviews its relationship with the company.” The Atlantic has ordered a “full review” into its own relationship with FBC. Justin Smith, president of Atlantic Media Co, publisher of the magazine, has resigned from the board of FBC. FBC’s founder Alan Friedman, a long-term friend of Mr Smith’s, blogged for The Atlantic from this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos. Mr Friedman also encouraged The Atlantic to host an event in March in which the Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Razak, was interviewed by a correspondent of The Atlantic. Natalie Raabe, director of communications for The Atlantic, said Mr Smith’s role at FBC was unpaid and “largely nominal”. She said that the magazine was “reviewing all interactions it has had with FBC and its chairman,” including blogs Mr Friedman wrote about Indonesia. “We have found several instances in which Friedman wrote positively about the Indonesian government and its representatives. Our internal process will seek to determine whether Friedman was representing Indonesia at the time he wrote for TheAtlantic.com.” She said the company was also examining blog comments made by Mr Friedman on Malaysia and had now attached an online reference to inform readers that he was working for the Malaysian government “at or around the time he wrote them”. FBC also made a half-hourly weekly programme for CNBC, part of the American NBC network. Many of its episodes featured Malaysia. CNBC has withdrawn the programme “indefinitely” and “immediately initiated an examination of FBC and its business practices”. Since publication of The Independent’s investigation, the newspaper has been contacted by numerous correspondents based in Kuala Lumpur, who complained that the broadcasters should have taken action earlier. One senior international journalist with a decade of experience in Malaysia, said FBC’s relationship with the Malaysian government was “common knowledge among the press corps in KL”. He said: “The real scandal is the failure by BBC and CNBC to police the outsourcing of their programmes. They need to answer some hard questions.” The BBC said it had “acted swiftly to suspend the broadcasting from FBC” and pointed out that “all independent TV companies who produce programmes for BBC World News have to sign strict agreements”. A former correspondent for a prominent US magazine said that correspondents became accustomed to seeing FBC granted access to “notoriously press-shy” senior political and business figures who would not speak to other sections of the media. “Knowing FBC and their modus operandi, it was pretty clear how it happened,” he said. The Independent has established that FBC also hired the Washington-based American lobbying company APCO Worldwide for the purpose of “raising awareness of the importance of policies in Malaysia that are pro-business and pro-investment as well as the significance of reform and anti-terrorism efforts in that country”. FBC denies impropriety in any of its programme-making. Its lawyers said in a letter that “at no time have the television programmes made for the BBC ever been influenced or affected by our client’s commercial activities”. It said that FBC ran production and commercial divisions, which “are and always have been quite separate and distinct”. The BBC, CNBC and the media regulator Ofcom continue to investigate. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

KEADILAN Fully Supports YB Fuziah Salleh And The Anty-LYNAS Movement Posted: 26 Aug 2011 05:17 AM PDT BN's ploy of using the UMNO-owned TV3 to discredit YB Fuziah Salleh,KEADILAN Vice President and Kuantan MP's relentless campaign together with the Anti-Lynas movement against the Lynas Advanced Material Plant (LAMP) in Gebeng, Kuantan is utterly desperate and despicable. BN resorted to hide behind two nuclear experts that misrepresented the aims and objectives of the Anti-Lynas movement in order to further BN's narrow and divisive political objectives. Zulkefly Mohd Omar, the PAS Central Committee Member and Chairman of Environment Bureau has also released a statement in support of the Anti-Lynas movement which is supported by Pakatan Rakyat as a coalition. In addition, the Malaysian Medical Association, the Malaysian Bar Council, Sahabat Alam Malaysia, Aliran and the Consumer Association of Penang, among others, have expressed their concern about the project. The Anti-Lynas movement was never narrowly confined to objecting about radioactivity alone. On the contrary, the movement opposed LAMP on the basis that operating a rare earth refinery in Prime Minister Najib Razak's home state brings with it other hazards such as health and environmental damage that would have dire consequences for the tourism and fishing industry, thus the local economy as a whole. LAMP will be the world's largest rare earth plant outside China once it operates. We believe that the health and safety of the residents of Gebeng and the surrounding areas are too precious to be sacrificed for short-term economic benefit. In this regard, YB Fuziah has rightly defended the rights of Gebeng residents, and should be applauded for continuing to do so as a responsible Member of Parliament for Kuantan. Nurul Izzah Anwar Vice President Parti Keadilan Rakyat This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

‘Pristine Condition’ Of Rectal Swabs Puzzles Expert Posted: 26 Aug 2011 02:25 AM PDT Malaysiakini How is it that three cotton swabs retrieved from the rectum of sodomy complainant Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan showed no sign of degradation when tested some 100 hours later? This is the issue that is puzzling Australian DNA expert Dr Brian McDonald. Describing the findings from the three swabs marked B7, B8 and B9 from the high and low rectal areas of the complainant as “pristine”, McDonald (right) told the Sodomy II trial of Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim that this was “inconsistent with the history”. “This is because there is no sign of degradation and the samples are pristine,” he said about the three samples taken from Saiful’s rectum 56 hours after the alleged sodomy took place between 3.01pm and 4.30pm on June 26, 2008. Saiful was examined by four doctors at Hospital Kuala Lumpur between 9pm on June 28 and midnight on June 29, 2008. Investigating officer Supt Jude Blacious Pereira had earlier testified that the samples were kept in a drawer in his air-conditioned office and handed over to chemist Dr Seah Lay Hong at around 7pm on June 30, 2008. Yesterday, McDonald, 60, told the Kuala Lumpur High Court that the samples should ideally be kept in a freezer at minus 20 degrees Celsius. Questioned on the three samples by defence counsel Ram Karpal Singh, McDonald said the ‘Male Y’ DNA was prevalent in the low rectal swabs. However, the witness noted, Saiful’s DNA was prevalent in the high rectal swab. “Hence, I cannot discount the possibility that Saiful’s semen or sperm could have been up in the high rectal area, based on the tests,” McDonald said. “Furthermore,” he added, “the three samples from the swab are pristine, although they should have degraded under the circumstances.” Another Australian expert witness, Dr David Wells, had testified earlier that he would not take samples from a sexual assault victim 36 hours after the attack. McDonald had also testified that such a sample would be deeply degraded after 56 hours. Saiful’s semen sperm in anus? McDonald also explained that chemists Dr Seah Lay Hong was guilty of "guessing" in treating Saiful’s sample, as there was no indication in her report where the sample originates and that he did not use the same numbering system employed by the doctors. "We have to assume where the swab came from as this is not reflected in Seah’s (right) report," he said, adding Seah should verify where it came from in sodomy cases. "It could come from a cigarette butt. Seah did not provide the information in the report. She has not reported anything on the sample whether it came somewhere or another." McDonald said Seah did not properly do the differential extraction process (DEP) test from the samples taken to resolve the issue of sperm and non-sperm cells. This, he said, has to be done again and again until what is left are sperm and not other contaminants. He said this has resulted in findings of Saiful’s DNA in the rectum. "That is the case of the complainant’s semen is in his rectum," he said, adding one cannot assume there is Saiful’s sperm is in his own rectum initially but this had to be assumed following the results of the test. "I would say Seah’s evidence is a guess." Ram: Why is that? McDonald: Because she did not slide on the receptacle and put it under a microscope to verify. That is only way to determine and if there is further, the process has to be repeated again to remove the contaminants. Ram: Is it possible that there is Saiful’s sperm in his anus. McDonald: If she had done it properly, we can cut out on such a possibility. The sample taken cannot be relied on because (it contain Saiful’s DNA). Ram: Can we conclusively say that Saiful’s sperm is not in his anus? McDonald: No, she is guessing that there are other cells. She did not do the DEP test properly. The Male Y (allegedly Anwar’s DNA) is predominant in B7 the low rectal swab. However, on the B8 (high rectal), Saiful’s DNA was predominant.We cannot discount Saiful’s sperm was up in his own anus, based on the result. Anwar Ibrahim is charged with sodomising Saiful at the Desa Damansara condominium between 3.01pm and 4.30pm on June 26, 2008. The trial continues from Sept 19 to 23 with McDonald’s testimony. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Anwar Difitnah Dan Bukan Pemecah Belah Perpaduan Melayu – Islam Posted: 26 Aug 2011 02:10 AM PDT Kenyataan Media Parti Keadilan Rakyat mengalu-alukan kenyataan Mufti Perak Tan Sri Harussani Zakaria di media massa bahawa punca perpecahan Melayu-Islam adalah kerana Kerajaan yang lemah, tidak amanah dan rasuah. Beliau juga menyatakan bahawa demi menjaga perpaduan Melayu, pernah menasihati Dr Mahathir agar tidak memecat Timbalanya ketika itu iaitu Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim serta membuat tuduhan liwat tanpa membawa empat orang saksi. Dengan kenyataan di atas, jelaslah bahawa apa yang ditanggapi sebagai perpecahan Melayu-Islam pada masa kini adalah berpunca dari permainan politik kotor para pemimpin UMNO sendiri bermula dari Dr. Mahathir Mohammad (Mantan Presiden UMNO dan Perdana Menteri Malaysia). Kenyataan ini juga menjelaskan dengan terang bahawa perpecahan orang Melayu pada masa kini bukan di sebabkan oleh Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan Pakatan Rakyat seperti yang digembar-gemburkan selama ini. Kenyataan Mufti Perak tersebut juga mengesahkan pendirian kita selama ini bahawa tuduhan liwat ke atas Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim adalah tidak sah dan fitnah semata-mata untuk menjatuhkan beliau sebagai pemimpin politik harapan orang Melayu-Islam. Adalah jelas bahawa pemecatan Anwar bukan kerana faktor moral tetapi konspirasi jahat Dr Mahathir Muhammad dan para kuncunya. Dengan pendedahan yang dibuat ini, rakyat perlulah membuka mata dan menyatakan sikap menolak dengan tegas fitnah yang dilemparkan ke atas Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Malah, semua yang cintakan keadilan perlulah bersama-sama bertanggungjawab dan bertindak untuk membela beliau dari segala kezaliman dan pembohongan berterusan sejak lebih satu dekad yang lalu. Justeru, bersempena dengan hari-hari terakhir bulan Ramadan yang mulia dan padanya diturunkan kitab suci al Qur'an, kita menyeru para pemimpin UMNO supaya melakukan muhasabah diri dan menghentikan kezaliman ke atas DSAI demi perpaduan ummah dan seluruh masyarakat Malaysia amnya. Kita berkeyakinan penuh bahawa selagi kezaliman terhadap DSAI tidak dihentikan, isu perpaduan Melayu-Islam tidak akan dapat diselesaikan secara tuntas. Dr Muhammad Nur Manuty Ketua Penerangan This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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