Archive for category Human Rights
A decent gov’t will not fear Jeyakumar
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Human Rights, Najib Razak, Police on Monday, 18 July 2011
Malaysiakini Your Say | Jul 18, 11
‘If we Malaysians stand up against those cowards in power, we can, once again, call ourselves a decent society.’
How did my friend become a violent subversive?
Ferdtan: We all know the arrests of Dr D Jeyakumar and five other PSM members are collateral damage of the Bersih rally.
It is obvious that they are completely innocent of all the allegations made by the police. We, the rakyat, are not fooled. They were arrested on the onset, before the actual Bersih on July 9, hoping to check mate the Bersih committee and spook them into calling off the march.
For now, we can’t see the PSM 6 being released too easily. The police just cannot lose ‘face’ as their ‘credibility’ would be affected (as if they have one in the first place).
Read the rest of this entry »
Another case of police probing themselves
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Health, Hishammuddin, Human Rights, Police on Monday, 18 July 2011
Malaysiakini Your Say | Jul 17, 11
‘Expecting the police to investigate the police assault on Tung Shin Hospital is like asking a robber to testify to the honesty and kindness of another robber.’
Two special police teams to probe Tung Shin claims
Sarajun Hoda: How stupid does the police think Malaysians are? The people do not trust the police anymore, so why would they trust their investigations?
It is like asking Ali Baba to investigate his 40 thieves. People do not trust Najib’s government. People do not trust the police. People do not trust the judiciary. The Agong perhaps is their last hope, and who should call for a royal commission of inquiry.
Saengch: I hope the police team sent to interrogate the doctors is not there to intimidate them into changing their words.
Read the rest of this entry »
Liow, it’s all your own doing
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Health, Human Rights, Police on Monday, 18 July 2011
Malaysiakini Your Say | Jul 17, 11
‘You lied with a straight face. Put simply, you shot yourself in the foot. Your lie has blown right back in your own face.’
Liow: Someone out there trying to get me
DannyLoHH: In his first public statement, the health minister used words like irresponsible, serious allegation with the aim to tarnish the name of Malaysia, if it didn’t happen means it didn’t happen, and it’s the truth to describe the non-occurring of police shooting water canon and tear-gas canister into Tung Shin Hospital compound.
The video is widely circulated online, which clearly shows that the attitude of Liow Tiong Lai is defensive of the police and dismissive of enquiries regarding mounting video and photographic evidence. In short, he has shot his own foot on TV.
Read the rest of this entry »
Planking or ‘pok kai’ in Hong Kong
Posted by Kit in Articles, Human Rights on Sunday, 17 July 2011
By Anita Anandarajah
July 17, 2011
JULY 17 — So it seems planking has caught on in Hong Kong. Making like a plank of wood, practitioners like to shock their audiences by remaining utterly stiff and horizontal in the most inappropriate places.
The Planking Hong Kong Facebook page has chalked up 156 likes, a long way off from Planking Australia which has received 175,271 likes where the craze has taken its strongest hold. Read the rest of this entry »
Kit Siang says EO detainee Jeyakumar is all right
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Human Rights on Friday, 15 July 2011
By Joseph Sipalan
Jul 15, 11 | MalaysiaKini
Sungai Siput MP Dr D Jeyakumar is holding up well despite having been detained for nearly three weeks now, DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang said today after meeting up with the Parti Sosialis Malaysia activist.
Lim, who with PAS vice-president Salahuddin Ayub and PKR’s Subang Jaya MP R Sivarasa met with Jeyakumar for 20 minutes at the Bukit Aman federal police headquarters earlier today, said he PSM was doing “okay” so far.
“By and large he is okay, despite the wear and tear. Read the rest of this entry »
Detention of PSM MP mockery of the law
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Human Rights on Friday, 15 July 2011
By K Pragalath
July 15, 201 | Free Malaysia Today
KUALA LUMPUR: Whoever framed the charges under the Emergency Ordinance to detain six Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) activists must be exposed, said DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang.
“Whoever is responsible for concocting the charges must be exposed and the government must also provide a full explanation for the detention,” he said.
“The detention is a mockery of the law,” said Lim after meeting with Sungai Siput MP, Dr D Michael Jeyakumar in Bukit Aman today. Read the rest of this entry »
Free EO detainees as Bersih rally over, says Pakatan
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Human Rights on Friday, 15 July 2011
By Boo Su-Lyn
July 15, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, July 15 — Pakatan Rakyat (PR) demanded today for the immediate release of the six Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) members held under the Emergency Ordinance 1969 as the Bersih rally was over.
“709 is over. There is no case or justification to hold (Sungai Siput MP Dr Michael) Jeyakumar (Devaraj) or the PSM six,” DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang told reporters today, referring to the July 9 Bersih rally that drew tens of thousands.
Lim’s joint press conference with PAS’s Kubang Kerian MP Salahuddin Ayub and PKR’s Subang MP R. Sivarasa was held after they visited Dr Jeyakumar at the Bukit Aman police headquarters here. Read the rest of this entry »
Suhakam public inquiry into police brutality most laudable
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Human Rights, Police on Thursday, 14 July 2011
The decision of Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) to hold a public inquiry into police excessive use of force, violence and brutality during last Saturday’s Bersih 2.0 rally is most timely and laudable.
In fact, if the Malaysian police subscribes to the principles of democratic policing to protect the rights and interests of the citizens and not the outmoded colonial mentality of regime policing, not a single tear gas canister or water cannon needed to be fired during the peaceful 709 Bersih 2.0 rally.
The tens of thousands of Malaysians from all races, religions, regions, age and gender who braved police threats, arrests, teargas and water cannons to gather in Kuala Lumpur on 709 to support Bersih 2.0’s legitimate calls for free and fair elections distinguished themselves by being peaceful, orderly and disciplined – going out of their way to avoid or respond to police provocations and to protect private and public property as there was no vandalism of any kind. Read the rest of this entry »
Suhakam to probe ‘police brutality’ during rally
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Human Rights, Police on Thursday, 14 July 2011
By MalaysiaKini
Jul 14, 11
The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) is to hold a public inquiry into allegations of police brutality during last Saturday’s Bersih 2.0 rally in the streets of Kuala Lumpur.
However, Suhakam still studying the terms and reference for such an inquiry, which would be made public later, the organisation announced today.
Commissioner Dr Khaw Lake Tee made the announcement at the Suhakam office in Kuala Lumpur after receiving a memorandum from a group of rally participants led by Bersih 2.0 steering committee member Maria Chin Abdullah.
Read the rest of this entry »
Police allow three MPs to visit EO detainee Jeyakumar
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Human Rights on Thursday, 14 July 2011
By MalaysiaKini
Jul 14, 11
After drawn-out negotiations, police today gave permission for three lawmakers to visit Sungai Siput MP Dr Michael Jeyakumar, now held under the Emergency Ordinance in Kuala Lumpur.
According to Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, the inspector-general of police allowed only three parliamentarians to visit Jeyakumar at 11am, tomorrow.
They are Lim Kit Siang (Ipoh Timor), Salahuddin Ayub (Kubang Kerian) and R Sivarasa (Subang), said Guan Eng in a statement.
According to Guan Eng, the IGP had also written to him, saying that Jeyakumar had been discharged from the Institut Jantung Negara at 2.30pm yesterday. b Read the rest of this entry »
Jeyakumar, the activist doctor
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Human Rights on Thursday, 14 July 2011
By Khoo Boo Teik
Jul 14, 11 | MalaysiaKini
COMMENT Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj, or Kumar as I call him, is a public figure of enormous stature. Very much respected for his achievements and contributions to medicine and public health in Malaysia, he was the recipient of the Malaysian Medical Association’s 1999 Award for Community Service.
As a government physician, Kumar served many years in hospitals in Penang, Sarawak and Perak, and chose optional retirement when he ran in the 1999 general elections. In addition, Kumar is a tireless social advocate and activist. Read the rest of this entry »
Release Dr Jeyakumar immediately
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Human Rights on Wednesday, 13 July 2011
by P Ramakrishnan
President Aliran
12 July 2011
Aliran is very concerned and troubled over Dr Jeyakumar’s health, which seems to be deteriorating under detention. We learn that he is now in IJN undergoing observation. This is the second time he had to be taken to hospital while under detention. This has happened within a span of two weeks which is really worrying.
The PSM 6 detained under the Emergency Ordinance have been placed in a cruel and unjust situation: they have been falsely accused (first of waging war against the King and now of being a threat to national security), subjected to interrogation and solitary confinement, and denied proper visitation rights with their lawyers. This is totally unacceptable in a civil society.
Kumar is neither a communist nor a violent man to be a serious threat to the country. Read the rest of this entry »
When the ordinary became extraordinary
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Elections, Human Rights, nation building on Tuesday, 12 July 2011
— Scuba gal
The Malaysian Insider
Jul 12, 2011
JULY 12 — I’m as ordinary as it gets. I live in a decent-sized condo, in a fairly popular middle-upper class neighbourhood. I married my husband in my early 30s. I’ve got a decent job in a well-regarded private corporation, where I’m middle management.
No children just yet but we’re trying for the average number of two. On the weekends, we do what most Malaysians in our circumstances might do — head to the cinema, have a meal at one of KL’s many malls, catch up with family and friends.
Recently, I had to answer a little profile write-up for work. When asked “what’s your biggest achievement?”, I could think of nothing I’d done so far that qualified. Yes, I’m that ordinary. Read the rest of this entry »
Was it worth it?
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Human Rights, Police on Monday, 11 July 2011
by Abdul Haleem
Jul 11, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider
JULY 11 — It has been 12 days since I have seen my wife, my son (who has just turned three) and my one-month-old daughter, sweet little Lana girl. If I don’t go down to see them this weekend, I will not see them for at least another week.
Three days ago my wife and I celebrated our fourth wedding anniversary, whilst we were apart. I had a choice to go back to Penang and be with them for the weekend, but instead, I chose to go down to Kuala Lumpur to support Bersih 2.0.
I arrived in KLIA at about 10.30am. The airport looked eerily deserted. As I travelled light, I literally ran to get an ERL ticket and jumped onto the train. As my excitement grew, I looked around to see KL as a ghost town. Even on Hari Raya holidays, you’ll see more cars on the Sungei Besi Highway compared to this particular Saturday.
Walking out from KL Sentral, I was shocked to see a huge presence of FRU units and police. I assumed this was to “manage possible demonstrators who might alight in KL Sentral and walk towards Masjid Negara.” I proceed to my hotel, which was just across from KL Sentral. Read the rest of this entry »
Running Scared in Malaysia
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Election, Human Rights on Friday, 8 July 2011
By John R. Malott
Wall Street Journal
July 8, 2011
Opinion The Malaysian government has pulled out all the stops to prevent an rally this weekend. This week, army units conducted crowd control exercises with banners that said, “Disperse or we will shoot!” The police set up roadblocks and arrested Malaysians simply for wearing yellow T-shirts, the signature color of Bersih, a coalition of 62 nongovernmental organizations that demands changes in Malaysia’s electoral system. To date, the police have arrested over 250 supporters of Bersih, claiming that they are “waging war against the king.”
Then something unprecedented happened. Malaysia’s King Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin, allegedly the target of Bersih’s campaign, intervened. He called on both Prime Minister Najib Razak and Bersih to resolve their differences in a spirit of harmony and cooperation, for the good of the nation. Read the rest of this entry »
The day when the people rise up: July 9
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Election, Human Rights, nation building, Police on Thursday, 7 July 2011
By Kim Quek
July 07, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider
JULY 7 — That’s it! Bersih finally has had enough of the treacherous conduct of a shameless government which has lost all sense of decency!
In a firmly worded statement released late last night, Bersih effectively said “come what may, we will have our rally at the Stadium Merdeka on July 9 at 2 pm!”.
This is Bersih’s final answer to a battery of ridiculous obstructions, warnings and excuses put up by the Najib government to obstruct a Bersih rally in the stadium.
This is despite Bersih having made a major concession to shift the rally from the streets to a stadium under the unprecedented intervention of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, and after Prime Minister Najib Razak’s offer of a suitable stadium for the purpose. Read the rest of this entry »
Kit Siang accuses Najib of being insincere in Bersih row
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Elections, Human Rights, Najib Razak, Police on Thursday, 7 July 2011
By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal
July 07, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, July 7 — DAP leader Lim Kit Siang accused Datuk Seri Najib Razak today of being insincere and irresponsible for continuing with the Bersih clampdown, despite the group heeding the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s call to hold the July 9 rally in a stadium.
The election watchdog has chosen Stadium Merdeka as the venue for this Saturday’s rally. Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar has however told the polls reform group to hold its rally outside of the capital. Read the rest of this entry »
Najib at risk of becoming the first Kafkaesque Prime Minister in Malaysia who does not mean what he says and does not say what he means
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Human Rights on Thursday, 7 July 2011
Datuk Seri Najib Razak runs the risk of becoming the first Kafkaesque Prime Minister in Malaysia who does not mean what he says and does not say what he means.
“Kafkaesque” relates to or suggestive of Franz Kafka or his writings and is often applied to bizarre and impersonal administrative situations where the individual feels powerless to understand or control what is happening.
The national sigh of relief evoked by the wise and just intervention of the Yang diPertuan Agong on Monday – that the “gathering storm” in the past week over the Bersih 2.0 rally on July 9 calling for free, fair and clean elections could be dispelled – lasted only 24 hours, for it proved to be both short-lived and premature.
As a direct consequence of the wise and just intervention of the Yang di Pertuan Agong, Bersih organisers called off the July 9 march and instead agreed to hold a rally at any stadium as proposed by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
However, when the Bersih organisers decided on Merdeka Stadium as the venue for the peaceful rally for free, fair and clean elections, all sorts of roadblocks and obstacles were thrown up by the various authorities despite the fact that such a rally at Merdeka Stadium had the blessings of the Yang di Pertuan Agong, viz: Read the rest of this entry »
Gov’t briefing on Bersih threat comes unstuck
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Elections, Human Rights on Wednesday, 6 July 2011
By Terence Netto
Jul 6, 11 | MalaysiaKini
A briefing yesterday by the police and the Election Commission meant to give credence to government claims that the planned Bersih march was fraught with the threat of violence came unstuck when it ran into a thicket of sceptical questions from those being briefed.
Present at the briefing which was held in a leading hotel in Kuala Lumpur even as Bersih’s top leaders were being granted an audience by the king at Istana Negara, were some 30 members comprising leaders of the Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism (MCCBCHST), Suhakam, and a couple of NGOs. Read the rest of this entry »
Hishammuddin and Police should respect and uphold the YDPA intervention by full co-operation with Bersih
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Elections, Hishammuddin, Human Rights, Police on Wednesday, 6 July 2011
The Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein and the police should respect and uphold the Yang di Pertuan Agong’s wise and just intervention in the Bersih 2.0 impasse by full co-operation with Bersih to make the July 9 Bersih 2.0 stadium rally a peaceful and orderly one as well as end all harassment against persons for wearing Bersih T-shirt and other paraphernalia and release all such items seized in past 10 days.
Hishammuddin and the police should pay special heed to advice by the Yang di Pertuan Agong in his special statement on Sunday where he said: Read the rest of this entry »
-
You are currently browsing the archives for the Human Rights category.
