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Mohd Khalil Abdullah
Sat | May 16, 09 | 7:37:46 pm MYT
KUALA LUMPUR, 16 Mei (Hrkh) - Menteri Luar, Dato’ Anifah Aman akan menghadapi tindakan saman oleh Ketua Umum KeADILan, Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim jika beliau tidak memohon maaf secara terbuka atas tuduhan Anwar menawarkan jawatan Timbalan Perdana Menteri apabila beliau berjaya mengambil alih kuasa Kerajaan Malaysia.
Peguam Sangkara Nair dan rakan-rakan yang bertindak bagi pihak Anwar akan mengfailkan saman terhadap keyataan Anifah jika beliau tidak memohon maaf dalam masa 24 jam dari sekarang.
“Klien kami, Anwar menafikan bahawa beliau pernah menawarkan jawatan tersebut kepada Anifah dan menafikan sekeras-kerasnya pertuduhan sedemikian oleh Anifah.
Continue reading ‘Anwar akan saman, jika Anifah tidak mohon maaf’
from Malaysiakini.com
Athi Veeranggan | May 16, 09 5:30pm
Pakatan Rakyat leader Anwar Ibrahim has vehemently denied offering newly appointed Foreign Minister Anifah Aman the deputy prime minister’s post in the bid to entice him to defect to the opposition coalition last year.
MCPX
“At no time were any such offers made to Anifah by Anwar. The allegations made in the said story are baseless, untrue, defamatory and made with malicious intent to tarnish Anwar’s reputation,” said lawyer Sankara Nair, who is representing the opposition leader.
“We have instructions to file a defamation (libel) suit against Anifah if he does not retract and make an apology within 24 from now.”
Continue reading ‘Anwar denies offering Anifah DPM post’
From The New Yorker
May 14, 2009-In this week’s issue of the magazine, Ian Buruma writes about the Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. Anwar was poised to succeed Mahathir bin Mohamad as Prime Minister until he denounced the government in 1998 for “cronyism”; Mahathir accused Anwar of sodomy and corruption and jailed him for six years. Anwar—who has forged an unlikely coalition between Malaysia’s Islamists, liberals, and ethnic minorities—will likely challenge Mahathir’s successor in the 2010 election.
Buruma answered a few questions related to his article (which is available online to subscribers).
You’re working on a book about Islam and democracy—what drew you to Malaysia? How does its encounter with political Islam differ from what’s happened in the Middle East or other Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia?
I was drawn to Malaysia partly, I must admit, by the pure zaniness of its politics: the main opposition leader jailed for sodomy, the Prime Minister accused by bloggers of having a hand in the murder of a Mongolian model. But the deeper reason for my interest is the complexity of racial and religious politics. In Malaysia, unlike Indonesia, race and religion are almost identical, since all Malays are considered to be Muslims. The same is not true of Indonesians—or indeed of Arabs or Persians. What is interesting about Anwar Ibrahim is that he is both a devout Muslim, with deep roots in Islamic organizations, and a democrat. He feels close to the Turkish Islamic party. What they are trying to forge is an alternative kind of politics to the Iranian autocratic, theocratic model, or the secular dictatorships of the Middle East. If it works, this would offer some hope, not only to Malaysians, but to the world, which is struggling with various forms of Muslim radicalism.
Continue reading ‘Ian Buruma on Malaysia, Obama, and Islam’
—PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE —
15 MAY 2009, PETALING JAYA – We call for an immediate cessation of hostilities in Sri Lanka’s northeastern region and appeal to the Sri Lankan military to halt its offensive activities. The fighting has reached a point where humanitarian concerns for the civilian population must be weighed against the military advantages gained by either side in the continuation of this conflict.
Thousands of innocent people have already perished in the combat zone including many women and children. An estimated 50,000 are still caught in the crossfire. Ensuring the safety and well being of the trapped population should be the primary concern of the Sri Lankan government, the LTTE and the international community.
UN agencies and the ICRC should be allowed access to the conflict zone to assess needs and bring in relief supplies, food and medical care to needy and injured populations. International monitors should be granted access to the area to ensure the protection of civilian populations and facilitate confidence building in efforts to establish a lasting peace.
ANWAR IBRAHIM
Malaysian Opposition Leader
Syabas saya ucapkan kepada Majlis Peguam Malaysia di atas kejayaan mereka meluluskan 11 usul yang dikemukakan oleh saudara Ragunath Kesavan dalam Mesyuarat Agung Luarbiasa semalam.
Majlis yang berlangsung di Dewan Sivik MBPJ, Petaling Jaya itu dihadiri oleh seramai 1429 orang peguam dan 81 orang pelatih dalam kamar. Kesemua mereka sebulat suara menggesa Menteri Dalam Negeri, Ketua Polis Negara, ACP Wan Abdul Bari bin Wan Abdul Khalid dan DSP Jude Pereira untuk meletak jawatan.
Sekali lagi Majlis Peguam memperlihatkan keazaman dan keberanian luar biasa apabila berhadapan dengan kekuasaan. Tindakan pihak keselamatan yang membelakangkan kedaulatan undang-undang serta prinsip-prinsip perlembagaan yang sudah sedia termaktub amatlah dikesali.
Penahanan secara salah terutamanya ke atas lima peguam muda dari pusat khidmat bantuan guaman menjadi saksi kerakusan kuasa sekaligus ketakutan luar biasa terhadap arus kebangkitan rakyat.
Apa yang kita harapkan dari pihak berkuasa agar mereka senantiasa bertindak adil dan tidak berat sebelah. Janganlah sesekali tunduk kepada permintaan pemerintah yang hanya demi memenuhi nafsu untuk kekal berkuasa.
ANWAR IBRAHIM
Dari Malaysiakini
Majlis Peguam menuntut peletakan jawatan ketua polis negara dan menteri dalam negeri, ekoran penahanan lima rakan peguam mereka pada 7 Mei lalu.
Kelima mereka ditahan kerana didakwa menyertai perhimpunan haram sewaktu mahu memberi khidmat guaman kepada sekumpulan individu yang ditahan kerana menyertai acara nyalaan lilin bagi menyokong aktivis Bersih, Woang Chin Huat, yang ditahan di bawah Akta Hasutan.
Kesemua mereka dibebaskan selepas ditahan semalaman dalam lokap polis – satu tindakan yang telah mencetus kemarahan masyarakat peguam.
Kira-kira 200 peguam mengadakan bantahan di kompleks mahkamah Kuala Lumpur pada hari berikutnya terhadap “penyalahgunaan kuasa oleh pihak polis”.
Dan untuk menyatakan kemarahan mereka, para peguam mengadakan mesyuarat agung luar biasa (AGM) hari ini berhubung perkara tersebut.
Ia dihadiri lebih 1,400 peguam. Selain mendesak Tan Sri Musa Hassan dan Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein meletak jawatan, para peguam tersebut juga bersetuju untuk memfailkan saman berhubung penahanan lima peguam berkenaan.
Continue reading ‘Peguam tuntut Musa, Hisham letak jawatan…’
From The Malaysian Insider
By Debra Chong
PETALING JAYA, May 15 — The Malaysian Bar today demanded the immediate resignation of the Home Affairs Minister, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and two other high-ranking police officers over the “unlawful” arrests of five lawyers from its Legal Aid Centre last May 7.
Bar Council president Ragunath Kesavan condemned Hishammuddin Hussein, IGP Tan Sri Musa Hassan and OCPD Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Wan Abdul Bari Wan Abdul Khalid for their publicly castigating the lawyers without first checking the facts on what took place that night.
He pointed to their public statements in response to the incident that lawyers were not above the law.
“The lawyers were accused of asking for preferential treatment, implying they had broken the law by being in front of the police station,” an upset Ragunath told reporters after chairing an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) here today.
Continue reading ‘Bar wants minister, IGP to quit over arrest of lawyers’
Dari Malaysiakini
Datuk Seri Najib Razak digesa menunaikan janjinya untuk memberi ruang lebih bebas kepada pengamal media arus perdana dan internet seperti seruannya tidak lama selepas dilantik perdana menteri.
Jawatankuasa Melindungi Wartawan (CPJ), sebuah NGO pemantau kebebasan akhbar yang berpangkalan di New York, membuat gesaan itu dalam suratnya kepada Najib semalam.
Sambil menyifatkan hasrat awal perdana menteri untuk melihat kebebasan akhbar sebagai “isyarat positif untuk reformasi”, CPJ menyampaikan keprihatinannya selama ini berhubung ruang terhad untuk pengamal media di Malaysia.
Continue reading ‘PM digesa Buka Kebebasan Akhbar’
The Economist
MAY 15 — When three legislators in Perak, one of five of opposition-ruled Malaysian states, switched sides in February, overturning a narrow majority in the 59-seat assembly, Umno was cock-a-hoop. After a big electoral setback last year, the long-dominant Umno was at last taking the fight to the opposition, led by its nemesis, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, a former deputy prime minister. Loyalists credited the defections, reportedly induced by the threat of corruption probes, to the bare-knuckle tactics of Datuk Seri Najib Razak, since sworn in as prime minister in place of the mild-mannered Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Taking back Perak was just the start, Umno snarled.
Perak was indeed the start of something, but not the rollback of Malaysia’s opposition, as foreseen by Umno and its ruling coalition partners. Instead it has snowballed into a constitutional crisis that reveals the wobbly underpinnings of a democracy yet to be tested by a handover of power at the federal level. On May 7, amid scuffles at Perak’s state assembly, Umno’s man was installed as mentri besar. Scores of people were arrested, including the speaker of the House, who was bundled away by plainclothes police. He had objected to the takeover as it had never been put to a vote in the assembly.
Continue reading ‘Practising in Perak for federal battles to come’
From The Malaysian Insider
By Edmund Bon
MAY 15 — We hope that judges should endeavour to write their grounds of decision and take delight in this aspect of judicial work as a matter of personal pride and satisfaction and not as a burden. Failure on the part of judges to write their grounds of decision will certainly undermine their authority to insist upon magistrates and presidents of Sessions Courts to write theirs. If the practice of not writing grounds of judgment is widespread the system of administration of justice will tumble down. (per Salleh Abas LP in Wong Chee Hong v Cathay Organisation (M) Sdn Bhd [1988] 1 CLJ (Rep) 298 at 300.)
As a matter of course, judges should write and give reasons/grounds for their decisions (usually known as “Alasan-Alasan Penghakiman”).
Continue reading ‘Tell Us Why, Please?’
Rencana ‘The Malay Dilemma’ ini merupakan hasil tulisan wartawan terkenal Ian Buruma dan bakal diterbitkan di dalam majalah antarabangsa The New Yorker (edisi 18 Mei 2009). Untuk muat turun versi PDF, sila klik pada pautan di bawah:
The Malay Dilemma (PDF version)
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By Ian Buruma
KUALA LUMPUR, May 15 — Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s voice was barely audible above the background din of chattering guests and a cocktail-bar pianist at the Hilton Hotel in Kuala Lumpur.
Anwar — who had rebounded from six years in prison on corruption and sodomy charges to become the best hope for a more democratic, less corrupt Malaysia — speaks softly. He is still under constant surveillance, he said.
Sensitive political business has to be handled in other capitals, Jakarta, Bangkok or Hong Kong. Security is a constant worry. Intelligence sources from three countries have warned him to be careful. “I’m taking a big risk just walking into this hotel to see you, but what can I do?” he murmured. “It’s all too exhausting. But, you know, sometimes you just have to take risks.”
This was the same Anwar Ibrahim, one struggled to remember, who was once at the heart of the Malaysian establishment: the Minister of Culture in 1983, the Minister of Education in 1986, the Minister of Finance in 1991 and a Deputy Prime Minister in 1993. He was poised to succeed Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. And then he got overconfident. Starting in the summer of 1997, when the Malaysian currency and stock market lost more than half of their value in the Asian financial meltdown, Anwar did something that Dr Mahathir found unforgivable.
Continue reading ‘The Malay Dilemma’
From The Malaysian Insider
By Shannon Teoh
IPOH, May 15 — V. Sivakumar, the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) appointed speaker of the Perak state assembly, will file a suit at the Ipoh High Court at 11.30am today against Datuk R. Ganesan, who is Barisan Nasional’s (BN) choice for speaker, which could determine who legitimately holds office as head of the state’s legislature.
The latest legal challenge will add to the state of confusion which has crippled the administration of Perak since BN’s power grab in February, and places more pressure on all parties to agree to fresh polls as a way out of the quagmire.
The speaker’s position is crucial as he controls assembly proceedings and for BN, it could mean convening an assembly to pass a vote of no-confidence in Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin, rendering the current court case over who is the legitimate mentri besar academic.
Perak DAP chief and Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) legal coordinator for the Perak crisis, Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham, told The Malaysian Insider that Sivakumar will file a personal suit against Ganesan for bringing unauthorised persons into the May 7 assembly.
Continue reading ‘Now it’s Speaker vs Speaker’
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