Hari ini di Mahkamah Tinggi Shah Alam, kita telah menyaksikan pembebasan Abdul Razak Baginda daripada pertuduhan subahat membunuh Altantuya Shariibuu. Saya mendoakan agar semuanya baik buat Razak, namun isu yang lebih penting ialah persepsi umum yang yakin bahawa penyiasatan tidak dijalankan dengan profesional dan bebas. Begitu juga dengan kontroversi apabila Hakim K.N Segara ditukar dari mengendalikan kes tersebut serta kemungkinan wujudnya penglibatan Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak dan isteri.
Walhal semalam Mahkamah Persekutuan melalui Ketua Hakim Negara yang baru dilantik telah menolak rayuan Dr. Munawar Anees yang mahu kesnya dibawa ke Mahkamah Tinggi agar beliau boleh membersihkan namanya dari fitnah jahat 10 tahun lalu. Keputusan tersebut dibuat selepas berbincang dengan hakim-hakim yang lain manakala asas kepada penghakiman akan diberikan kemudian. Saya berpendapat rayuan Dr. Munawar wajar dibenarkan bagi membolehkan keadilan terlaksana; yang dipinta ialah Mahkamah Tinggi mendengar hujah serta kisah dari pihak beliau.
Keadilan bukan sahaja mesti dilaksanakan bahkan mesti kelihatan dilaksanakan!
Sesi Dewan Rakyat semalam sedikit panas suhunya selepas pendedahan oleh Timbalan Menteri Pertahanan bahawa tiada percubaan dan pemeriksaan fizikal terhadap 12 unit helikopter model Cougar EC725. Nilai pembelian yang mencecah RM 1.6 bilion itu dibuat hanya berdasarkan dokumen!
Keputusan ini cukup mengecewakan. Selain melibatkan pembaziran dana yang sebegitu besar di saat prospek ekonomi tidak memberangsangkan, ianya juga menunjukkan sikap pemerintah Umno-BN yang tidak prihatin terhadap rakyat terutamanya kepada bakal juruterbang helikopter itu kelak. Keselamatan mereka langsung tidak diendahkan!
Saya berharap bekas Menteri Pertahanan dapat hadir ke Dewan Rakyat untuk mengemukakan penjelasan berhubung perkara ini. Pun demikian, saya ucap tahniah kepada pegawai Kementerian Pertahanan yang menegur dan memperbetulkan bapak menteri kerana berulang kali salah dalam menyediakan angka sebenar bagi harga pembelian helikopter tersebut.
A Malaysian court acquitted a key aide of Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak of abetting the murder of a Mongolian woman in 2006.
The verdict could ease political pressure on Mr. Najib as he prepares to assume Malaysia’s premiership next year. But it is also likely to reignite public criticism over the independence and competence of Malaysia’s police, prosecutors and judiciary.
High Court Justice Mohamed Zaki Mohamed Yasin ruled Friday that government prosecutors had failed to establish a prima facie case against 48 year-old Abdul Razak Baginda, a prominent political analyst and close friend and adviser to Mr. Najib.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 31 — Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim wished Abdul Razak Baginda well, but questioned the manner in which the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder case was handled by the police and the prosecution.
“Of course on a personal level, I wish Razak well, but the issue here revolves around the court procedure and the investigations,” he told reporters when met at the Jalan Duta court complex.
Mahkamah Persekutuan menolak rayuan Dr Munawar Ahmad Anees berhubung kesnya diliwat Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, 10 tahun lalu.
Panel tiga hakim diketuai oleh Ketua Hakim Negara, Tan Sri Zaki Tun Azmi menolak permohonan peguam pengarang itu Manjeet Singh Dhillon agar mahkamah menggunakan bidang kuasa semakan mengembalikan rayuan Munawar ke Mahkamah Tinggi.
Beliau yang bersidang bersama hakim-hakim Datuk Nik Hashim Nik Ab. Rahman dan Datuk Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin menjelaskan, alasan penghakiman tersebut akan diberikan kemudian.
The charge against Anwar Ibrahim will be mentioned at Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court, Jalan Duta 31st October at 9:30am
Sessions Court judge SM Komathy Suppiah will deliver her decision tomorrow on whether the matter can be moved up to the High Court as applied by the prosecution.
Komathy had allowed Anwar to be released on a personal bond set at RM20,000 without surety after his defence lawyers pleaded for him to be released on personal bond under Section 388 (ii) of the Criminal Procedure Code while the prosecution argued for bail to be set at RM20,000 on 7th August this year.
Earlier this month, Komathy dismissed a preliminary objection raised by the prosecution that she had no choice but to transfer the case to a higher court. Komathy then ruled to hear the merits of an objection raised by Anwar’s legal team against the transfer notice.
Semalam saya dan Azizah bertuah kerana menerima kehadiran tetamu-tetamu yang istimewa. Selain kehadiran dua sahabat lama iaitu Profesor John Voll dan Dr. Munawar Anees, kami juga menerima kunjungan 31 Ahli Parlimen Parti Keadilan Rakyat dan Ahli Majlis Tertinggi bagi membincangkan agenda perubahan yang perlu dilaksanakan serta upaya bagi memperhebat serta memperkasakan parti. Continue reading ‘Makan Malam bersama Prof John Voll dan Dr Munawar Anees’
KUALA LUMPUR: Dewan Rakyat Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim filed an emergency motion in Parliament on Wednesday to call for a Royal Commission to be established to investigate the doubts and controversies over the Federal Government’s decision to spend on three controversial mega projects.
The three mega projects are the RM11.31bil High Speed Broadband Project, the RM4.26bil purchase of the Bank Internasional Indonesia by Maybank and the RM1.7bil procurement of 12 units of the Eurocopter Cougar EC 725 helicopters.
Anwar said this in the motion addressed to the Dewan Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia.
Wawancara eksklusif Bloomberg dengan Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim berkenaan keadaan politik semasa Malaysia. Wawancara ini akan disiarkan oleh saluran Bloomberg(Saluran 12) TV ASTRO (Malaysia) pada waktu:
Tarikh: 28 Oktober (Selasa)
Jam: 1pm, 8:30pm (ulangan), 11:30pm (ulangan)
Wawancara 3½ minit ini menyaksikan Datuk Seri Anwar memberi komentar berkenaan situasi politik semasa dan proses demokratisasi di Malaysia.
PUTRAJAYA, Oct 28 — All he wants is for his story to be heard in court, a chance to clear his name from the stigma of a conviction for sodomy, a crime he says he did not commit.
On Thursday, the Federal Court will decide if it has the jurisdiction to review the Kuala Lumpur High Court decision which threw out Dr Munawar Anees’s application for an appeal over a sodomy conviction which dates back about a decade.
Saksikan debat malam ini di antara Ahli Parlimen Machang YB Saifuddin Nasution dan Ketua Pembangkang Dewan Undangan Negeri Selangor YB Dr. Mohamad Khir Toyo.
Tarikh: 27hb Oktober 2008.
Masa: 10.30PM
Saluran: tv9
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