Kami mengalu-alukan penyerahan Laporan Suruhanjaya Diraja mengenai video klip Lingam kepada Yang Di-Pertuan Agong dan meminta laporan itu segara didedahkan kepada umum.

Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi berhasrat melaksana reformasi badan  kehakiman, seperti mana yang beliau umumkan sebelum ini, maka cadangan suruhanjaya tersebut supaya menyiasat dan mendakwa kalangan yang terlibat dapat dilaksanakan.

Kami juga ingin memohon penjelasan bersabit laporan suruhanjaya yang mengaitkan isu ketidak adilan pendakwaan dan penghukuman kes-kes tertentu dibawah bidang kuasa suruhanjaya tersebut.

Amat mendesak sekali untuk kerajaan mengambil tindakan wajar mengembalikan keyakinan terhadap badan kehakiman serta memastikan agar penyiasatan dan pendakwaan salah laku jenayah oleh Jabatan Peguam Negara yang bebas dari gangguan pemerintah.

Ini pastinya melibatkan beberapa percanggahan dan kaedah yang dipertikai yang sewajarnya dipatuhi oleh pihak berwajib dalam penyiasatan kes yang melibatkan pimpinan kanan kerajaan termasuk kes-kes yang tercela seperti pembunuhan dan yang melibatkan dana yang besar.

Rakyat Malaysia prihatin tentang permasalahan tersebut dan justeru itu tidak harus diremehkan oleh pemeritnhn sekarang. Sebarang tindakan yang dianggap tidak bersungguh-sungguh bagi memulihkan kewibawaan badan kehakiman pasti nya tidak akan berhasil.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

We welcome the submission of the report of the Royal Commission on the Lingam video clip to the Yang  DiPertuan Agong. We call for its full ventilation to the Malaysian public. If Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi is serious about judicial reform, then he should take this report to its logical culmination which is the investigation and prosecution of those who the report deems to have deviated the course of justice.

We have to ask what the import of the Royal Commission’s findings are with respect to the unjust prosecutions and convictions in cases that fell within the gravitational field of  the inquiry conducted by this Commission.
It is critical that adequate measures be taken to restore the independence of the judiciary and to ensure the professional and unbiased investigation and prosecution of criminal activity by the Attorney General’s chambers that is free of executive interference.

This would involve serious consideration of the inconsistence and dubious procedures being followed by the authorities right now in the investigation of cases that involve senior government officials and, to mention a few of the more egregious allegations, murder and the massive misappropriation of public fund.

These issues are of deep concern to the Malaysian people and should not be taken lightly by the present administration. A half-hearted attempt at restoration would be as unsatisfactory as no restoration at all.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

May 12, 2008

Thank you for those who participated in the live web-cast of Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s press conference today at 2:30 PM.  It was a very successful experiment with hundreds of people logging in through the blog and the Facebook page from around the country and around the world to listen and see one of the first live broadcasts of Dato Seri Anwar in Malaysia in nearly a decade. Some people have asked whether we will be uploading the video for today – which we unfortunately cannot this time but will plan to in the future.

Thanks and we look forward to hearing from you so we can improve the system.

Office of Anwar Ibrahim

Ada teman akrab yang turut khuatir kerana saya tidak terserlah dipentas ceramah atau media. Ada kebenaran telahan tersebut. Maka saya akan teruskan dengan sidang media esok dan menetapkan jadual ceramah peringkat negeri mulai minggu depan inshaallah.

Sekadar penjelasan maka tepat diteka bahawa saya tertumpu memantapkan muafakat Pakatan Rakyat, mesyuarat memperkukuh jentera KeADILan dan memantau perjalanan kerajaan negeri PR. Saya juga giat atau ligat (loghat utara) mengadakan pertemuan dengan ahli parlimen, sarjana, saudagar, aktivis, saling melontar idea dan menghimbau pandangan.

Sementara itu, Azizah ke Pulau Pinang dan Nurul Izzah ke Melaka dan Lembah Pantai. Maka saya memenuhi waktu menziarah jenazah ayah jiran di Kg Segambut, sahabat di Hospital Damansara, mengunjungi Tuan Guru, ke majlis kenduri perkahwinan dua anak Prof Razali Nawawi dan Kak Dah di Putrajaya. Selain itu saya melayani wakil-wakil rakyat tertentu.

ANWAR IBRAHIM