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- Bill Limiting Street Protests Moves Ahead in Malaysia
- Ahmad Maslan Dan Kedangkalannya
- MP Pakatan Keluar Dewan, Protes Akta Perhimpunan Aman
- Malaysian Lawyers Rally Against Street – Protest Ban
- Anwar Likens Assembly Area Restrictions To Mubarak’s Military Rule
| Bill Limiting Street Protests Moves Ahead in Malaysia Posted: 29 Nov 2011 08:07 PM PST The lower house of the Malaysian Parliament approved a measure Tuesday that would ban street demonstrations, hours after hundreds of lawyers and activists chanting "freedom to the people" protested against the legislation, which they said would further restrict democratic rights in the country. The Peaceful Assembly Act must still be approved by the upper house, the Senate, before it takes effect, but analysts said that they expected easy passage because the Senate was dominated by government members. Opposition party members, who had called for the legislation to be withdrawn, walked out of Parliament before the vote Tuesday, saying that they would refuse to participate because only three opposition members had been permitted to speak on the issue. The legislation, which would impose fines of up to 20,000 ringgit, or $6,000, on violators, comes after Prime Minister Najib Razak pledged in September to embark on a series of reforms. Civil rights groups and opposition parties say Mr. Najib has failed to deliver on his promise to make Malaysia a "modern, progressive nation" and that the Peaceful Assembly Act is more repressive than existing laws. Lim Chee Wee, president of the Malaysian Bar Council, which organized the protest Tuesday, said the ban on street processions violated the "constitutionally guaranteed right" to have an "assembly in motion." "The Malaysian Bar Council is very disappointed that the government is rushing with unholy haste this piece of legislation without seeking adequate feedback from relevant stakeholders," he said. Under existing law, Malaysians must apply for a police permit for gatherings of more than five people. The Peaceful Assembly Act does not require people to obtain a permit, but organizers must notify the authorities 10 days in advance unless they are meeting in "designated places," which are not specified in the bill. No gatherings would be permitted within 50 meters, or about 160 feet, of prohibited places including hospitals, schools or places of worship, and no one under the age of 21 would be permitted to organize a protest. The police would be able to impose conditions, including the date, time and place of the assembly. During the march Tuesday, a police roadblock prevented most of the lawyers from reaching Parliament. However, 10 members of the Malaysian Bar Council were allowed to enter. Mr. Lim, who handed copies of a draft alternative bill to V.K. Liew, a deputy cabinet minister, and to Anwar Ibrahim, the opposition leader, in the Parliament lobby, was cheered when he returned to the crowd of waiting lawyers. "Today we have shown to the Parliament we can have a peaceful walk for freedom," he said, adding that the Bar Council would keep up its fight against the bill. "We must continue to knock on the doors of Parliament to make sure this bill doesn't enter the statute books," he said. Mr. Lim later said in an interview that the Bar Council would continue to lobby the government and senators against final approval. "The Bar will not give up hope in its objective of preventing this bill becoming law," he said. International rights groups, including Amnesty International, had also called for the bill to be withdrawn, saying that it would further tighten the country's "excessive restrictions" on peaceful protests ahead of elections widely expected to be called early next year. "If the Malaysian government is serious about holding free and fair elections, it needs to end this assault on the right to peaceful protest," Sam Zarifi, Asia-Pacific director at Amnesty International, said in a statement. After meeting with Bar Council representatives, Mr. Anwar said that the law was more repressive than those found in Zimbabwe and Myanmar. "We cannot accept the bill as it stands," he said. The outcry over the Assembly Act has largely overshadowed the government's announcement last week that it would repeal three emergency laws that allowed detention without trial and that it would permit students older than 21 to join political parties. Mr. Najib's pledge to introduce a series of reforms came after the government was condemned for its handling of a July protest at which tear gas and water cannons were used to disperse thousands of demonstrators calling for greater transparency in elections. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Ahmad Maslan Dan Kedangkalannya Posted: 29 Nov 2011 05:44 PM PST The Malaysian Insider Inilah kenyataan yang paling dangkal yang saya dengar dari Ahmad Maslan, ketua penerangan Umno. Nampak sangat dia malas membaca kerana kalau dia membaca dan faham apa yang dibaca, dia tidak mengeluarkan kenyataan yang bingung macam ini. Helo brader, semua orang dah tahu hal ini. Lihat sahaja keputusan pemilu 2008. Jumlah pengundi Melayu semuanya 5.7 juta. Calun Umno mendapat 2.38 juta undi. Katakan lah 380,000 pengundi tersebut adalah pengundi bukan Melayu. Itu bermakna, dari 5.7 juta pengundi Melayu, calun Umno hanya mendapat 2 juta undi. Jika ahli Umno sahaja sudah ada 3 juta lebih, maka itu bermakna 1 juta lebih ahli Umno tidak mengundi calun Umno sama ada kerana mereka tidak mendaftar diri atau enggan mengundi calun Umno. Umno tidak lagi boleh mendakwa mereka mewakili suara dan aspirasi bangsa Melayu. Umno dah hilang monopoli.Bolehkah orang Melayu yang merupakan 65 peratus penduduk Malaysia, hilang dominance mereka? Matematik mana Ahmad Maslan pelajari? Ertinya, Ahmad Maslan tidak perlu mengulangi kelemahan Umno. Dia lebih perlu menjawab mengapa rakyat meluat melihat Umno. Sekurang kurangnya, presiden Umno lebih teliti dalam observasinya. Orang dah kenal sangat sifat-sifat orang Umno yang ek — baju linen, kereta besar, cermin mata hitam dan lain-lain lagi petanda2 luaran. Dan orang tahu, kebanyakan pemimpin Umno seperti Ahmad Maslan adalah tin kosong. Ahmad Maslan ini sendiri semasa jadi ketua penerangan Umno akan sentiasa memulakan ucapannya dahulu dengan mencerita hal dirinya sendiri. Bagaimana dia yang tak tahu apa2 pun, tiba2 di angkat oleh Datuk Najib jadi pegawai yang in charge Felda, kemudian di lantik timbalan menteri dan terus ketua penerangan. Boleh jadi kerana kamu, Ahmad Maslan sudah jampi Datuk Najib dengan serapah 7 petala langit dan 7 petala bumi dan apa apa lagi. Semua orang yang mendengar ucapan Ahmad Maslan pada masa itu tertanya-tanya, apa jadahnya kaitan cerita nasib baik kamu dengan tugasan yang mendepani organisasi Umno? Syukurlah kamu bernasib baik tapi jangan melembukan ahli Umno yang lain dengan cerita karut marut dan buah fikiran yang dangkal. Belum sempat saya habis baca ulasannya mengenai Umno ada 3.4 juta ahli(yang semua mahu menunggang Umno) saya terbaca komennya dalam ucapannya di sebuah forum Melayu pasca PRU13. Ini satu lagi buah fikiran yang dangkal lagi. Macam mana Melayu hilang kuasa dan kedudukan? Melayu akan hilang kuasa kalau mereka tidak ada pelajaran, kalau mereka tidak kompetitif dan sebagainya. Melayu tak hilang kuasa jika tidak bertali urikan Umno. Umno yang banyak menjahanamkan kepentingan Melayu. Tajuk forum yang terlebih baik ialah Melayu Umno pasca PRU13. Hari ini, kepentingan Melayu boleh di perjuangkan diatas wadah apa sekali pun, ianya bergantung kepada dedikasi dan kepandaian yang empunya diri. Kita tanya Ahmad Maslan, bila Shahrizat bertindak sebabagi pemudah cara pemberian grant kepada Dr Salleh, ada dia fikir mengenai kepentingan bangsa Melayu? Apakah Dr Salleh akan senang dapat grant tersebut ketika rekodnya mengurus Technology Park Malaysia sangat buruk kecuali merit yang dia ada ialah dia suami Shahrizat Jalil? Tidak bukan. Sebab dia mahu melembukan semua orang Melayu. Setelah sebulan isu feedlot ini di bangkitkan baru sehari dua, Shahrizat kata, dia takde kena mengena dengan isiu feedlot? Dan bila kita membayar pembelian kereta APC oleh Deftech dengan membayar RM6 billion lebih tinggi dari harga RM1.2 billion, duit RM6 billion itu untuk orang Melayu? Dan di mana Umno menghilangkan diri bila MAS yang sepatutnya menjadi kebanggan negara Malaysia, sedang di canibalise supaya beberapa orang membuat wang yang banyak. Si Ahmad Maslan ini betul2 tidak membaca apa guruh yang sedang membuak di kalangan orang Melayu. Orang Melayu melihat Umno hari ini organisasi yang membenarkan perlanunan dan samun dan rompakan keatas orang Melayu sendiri. Dan kalau Ahmad Maslan membaca dengan teliti lagi, dia akan dengar orang ramai berkata Ahmad Maslan can shove his remarks up that part of his anatomy where the sun does not shine! — sakmongkol.blogspot.com This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| MP Pakatan Keluar Dewan, Protes Akta Perhimpunan Aman Posted: 29 Nov 2011 01:17 AM PST
Ahli Parlimen Pakatan Rakyat keluar dewan rakyat beramai-ramai bagi membantah tindakan kerajaan yang enggan menarik balik Rang Undang-Undang Perhimpunan Aman yang dibahaskan hari ini. Tindakan keluar dewan itu diketuai Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Mereka juga membantah keputusan Yang dipertua Dewan Rakyat, Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia kerana hanya membenarkan ahli parlimen kanan pembangkang Ahli Parlimen Subang, R. Sivarasa berkata, Pakatan membuat keputusan berkenaan sebagai tanda protes, selepas menjangka rang undang-undang itu akan tetap diluluskan. "Kita memilih tindakan keluar dewan kerana kita sudah menjangka akta ini akan diluluskan juga dengan mereka menggunakan undian majoriti. "Malah Menteri Di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz juga enggan memberi respon mengenai desakan kita agar rang undang-undang itu ditarik balik," katanya ditemui selepas Ahli Parlimen Pakatan Rakyat keluar dewan hari ini. Menurutnya, jika undian belah bahagi diadakan sekalipun, Pakatan Rakyat tidak mampu menghalang rang undang-undang itu dari diluluskan kerana majoriti dalam Dewan Rakyat ialah Ahli Parlimen BN. Rang undang-undang itu dibahaskan Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (KEADILAN-Permatang Pauh), Abdul Rahman Dahlan (BN-Kota Belud), Lim Guan Eng (Dap-Bagan), Abdul Hadi Awang (Pas-Marang), Ibrahim Ali (Bebas-Pasir Mas) dan P Kamalanathan (BN-Hulu Selangor). This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Malaysian Lawyers Rally Against Street – Protest Ban Posted: 28 Nov 2011 11:27 PM PST From BBC News Hundreds of lawyers in Malaysia have staged a rally against proposed laws that would ban street protests. The government has promised to get rid of a rule requiring people to get a police permit to hold a demonstration. But it wants to replace that rule with a ban on street protests and a ban on people under 21 demonstrating. The lawyers say the new proposals are more repressive than the old laws, and they are calling on the government to ditch the plans. Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is expected to call an election early next year, has been trying to boost his popularity by overhauling the country’s web of security laws. But his government’s Peaceful Assembly Act has caused outrage among critics and rights groups. ‘Voice of the people’ They chanted “freedom to assembly” and “freedom to the people”, before police stopped most of them from entering the complex. They say the government is trying to rush through the law without proper consultation. “We hope the government will listen to the voice of the people,” said Bar Council President Lim Chee Wee, according to the Associated Press news agency. Last week, the government announced the repeal of three emergency proclamations providing for detention without trial. Much of the legislation dates back to the 1960s and 70s when Malaysia was racked by tensions between Muslim Malays and the ethnic Chinese, which at one point exploded into bloody riots. Thousands of people are being held under the proclamations, according to a report on arbitrary detention by the UN Human Rights Council last year. Campaigners say that many of those being held are petty criminals who have been denied due process. Mr Najib also promised in September to repeal another law, the Internal Security Act, which has its origins in the anti-Communist legislation of the British colonial period and has been used for decades to detain and intimidate government critics. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Anwar Likens Assembly Area Restrictions To Mubarak’s Military Rule Posted: 28 Nov 2011 09:18 PM PST Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said today the government was following in the footsteps of toppled Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak by barring protests from taking place on the streets and at least 20 other kinds of venues. "The prohibition of places like kindergartens follows Hosni Mubarak's military rule," the opposition leader said when debating the Bill that has been criticised by several quarters as being more repressive than existing regulations. Mubarak's 30-year presidency came to an end in February this year after hundreds of thousands of Egyptians gathered to demand his exit. The PKR de facto leader was replying to his colleague and Kuala Kedah MP Ahmad Kassim who asked "what is the meaning" of the long list of prohibited areas. The Bill prohibits assemblies from being held at dams, reservoirs, water catchment areas, water treatment plants, electricity generating stations, petrol stations, hospitals, fire stations, airports, railways, land public transport terminals, ports, canals, docks, wharves, piers, bridges, marinas, places of worship and kindergartens and schools. Anwar questioned how the government intended to "become the best democracy in the world" when it was "making it more difficult to gather than in Zimbabwe and Myanmar." He was referring to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's statement just days after his September 15 pledge of democratic reforms, including repealing the controversial Internal Security Act (ISA), that the move was to make Malaysia the world's best democracy. But critics have said that the proposed law is more repressive than those in countries like Myanmar, which has one of the world's poorest human rights records. Myanmar's military-dominated Parliament passed a law last week allowing street protests and a notice period of just five days, fewer than the 10 days required by the Peaceful Assembly Bill. "The new law is even more repressive than Section 27 of the Police Act. Powers held by the police and the minister have not changed, only the timeframe for them to act," the Permatang Pauh MP said, referring to the provision that requires a police permit for all public gatherings. Pakatan Rakyat (PR) has called for the Bill to be withdrawn and put before a parliamentary select committee. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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