Usul tergempar ISA lulus di DUN S'gor

Usul tergempar ISA lulus di DUN S'gor
May 26, 08 12:54pm
Usul tergempar mengkritik Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) diluluskan buat pertama kali di Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Selangor hari ini bagi membantah penahanan berlanjutan seorang wakil rakyat negeri itu.

M Manoharan , yang menang atas tiket DAP kini ditahan di kem Kamunting, Taiping sejak Disember lepas.

Usul tersebut dibawa oleh ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Kampung Tunku (DAP), Lau Wen Sang, lewat petang ini dan dibahaskan sehingga awal malam.

Usul bersejarah itu berbunyi: "Bahawa Dewan ini menetap untuk mengkritik penahanan Yang Berhormat Tuan M Manoharan, Adun kawasan Kota Alam Shah serta pemimpin-pemimpin Hindraf (Barisan Bertindak Hak-hak Hindu) dan aktivis-aktivis sosial yang lain tanpa perbicaraan bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) dan menyeru Kementerian Dalam Negeri membebaskan tahanan-tahanan ini."

Ia diluluskan sebulat suara oleh DUN Selangor tepat jam 9 malam ini.

Semua Adun BN tidak menyertai perbahasan tersebut yang bermula jam 6 petang tadi.

Manoharan dan empat lagi pemimpin Hindraf - P Uthayakumar, V Ganabatirau, R Kengadharan dan K Vasantha Kumar - ditahan pada 13 Disember selepas terbabit menganjurkan perhimpunan 25 November lalu.

Usul itu disokong dan dibahaskan oleh enam wakil rakyat, termasuk dua bekas tahanan ISA - Dr Mohamad Nasir Hashim (DAP-Kota Damansara) dan Saari Sungib (PAS-Hulu Kelang).

Turut serta dalam perbahasan itu barisan Adun muda Pakatan Rakyat: Gan Pi Nee (PKR-Rawang), Hannah Yeoh (DAP-Subang), Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad (PKR-Seri Setia) dan Amirudin Shari (PKR-Batu Caves).

ISA families to get aid from S'gor state govt

ISA families to get aid from S'gor state govt



Posted by St Low
Monday, 26 May 2008
SHAH ALAM: The Selangor government has pledged to help the families of Internal Security Act (ISA) detainees by providing welfare assistance.

Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim said several steps could be taken to help the wives and children of these detainees, to help them through difficult times.

The state government could bear the travelling costs for families to visit the detention camp every week, he said.

The children could get scholarships to further their studies, and ways can be found for the wives to become entrepreneurs.

“Life can be difficult for them but they must continue to fight,” he said after receiving a memorandum from Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA (GMI or Abolish ISA Movement) here on Monday.
Khalid said GMI's move was in line with the state government's call for the abolition of the ISA and OSA (Official Secrets Act).

GMI chairman Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh said there were six families whose sole breadwinner had been detained since 2002.

“Six years is not a short period -- these sole breadwinners have lost their jobs and their children are suffering the consequences.

“There are also two detainees whose wives have sought divorce because of the long detention," he added.

Internal Security Act not cruel, says IGP

Internal Security Act not cruel, says IGP
Posted by labisman
Thursday, 15 May 2008
KUALA LUMPUR, May 14 (Bernama) -- Dismissing the notion that the Internal Security Act (ISA) is cruel, the inspector-general of police says it is still needed to safeguard national security.

Tan Sri Musa Hassan also rejected charges by some quarters that detainees held under the ISA were given no opportunity to defend themselves in court.

"ISA detainees can still obtain their defence by providing evidence in court.

"There is an advisory panel which re-evaluates cases of ISA detainees. If the panel says the detainees do not threaten the country's security, we will free them," said Musa, adding that members of the panel were former judges.

He was speaking to reporters after officiating the first meeting of the Asean Regional Crime Prevention Foundation (ARCPF) here Wednesday.

Answering a question from an Indonesian journalist who was covering the ARCPF event, Musa said among the ISA detainess were 13 Indonesians who enjoyed permanent resident status here.

He said they were being detained in Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah.

The three-day meeting which began Wednesday focusses on the establishment of the Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation by emphasising on aspects of crime prevention in drug smuggling, human trafficking and police enforcement.

Also present was acting ARCPF chairman Tan Sri Da'i Bachtiar of Indonesia.
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Musa: ISA tidak kejam
Posted by Super Admin
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) tidak kejam tetapi sebaliknya masih diperlukan bagi menjamin keselamatan negara daripada sebarang bentuk ancaman dalaman, kata Ketua Polis Negara Tan Sri Musa Hassan.

Beliau berkata ISA masih diperlukan untuk menjaga keselamatan negara dan beliau menolak dakwaan sesetengah pihak kononnya tahanan di bawah akta itu tidak berpeluang mendapat pembelaan di mahkamah.

"Tahanan ISA masih boleh mendapat pembelaan dengan mengemukakan bukti di mahkamah" katanya kepada pemberita selepas merasmikan mesyuarat pertama Yayasan Pencegahan Jenayah Asean (ARCPF) di sini.

Musa berkata ISA juga mempunyai penal penasihat bagi membuat penilaian terhadap kes-kes berkaitan tahanan.

"Jika badan ini menyatakan mereka (tahanan ISA) tidak mengancam keselamatan negara, jadi kita bebaskan," katanya.

Menjawab soalan seorang wartawan dari Indonesia yang membuat liputan, Musa berkata antara tahanan ISA ialah 13 orang warga Indonesia berstatus penduduk tetap (PR) negara ini.

Mereka ditahan di kem tahanan termasuk Sabah, katanya.

Mesyuarat selama tiga hari itu memberi tumpuan kepada aktiviti Yayasan Pencegahan Jenayah Malaysia (MCPF) yang memberi penekanan kepada aspek pencegahan jenayah daripada segi penyeludupan dadah, penyeludupan manusia dan penguatkuasaan polis.

Turut hadir Pemangku Pengerusi ARCPF Tan Sri Da'i Bachtiar yang juga bekas Ketua Polis Indonesia. BERNAMA

Hindraf 5 kekal di bawah ISA

Hindraf 5 kekal di bawah ISA
Soon Li Tsin | May 14, 08 12:17pm



Lima pemimpin Barisan Bertindak Hak Hindu (Hindraf) akan kekal ditahan di pusat tahanan Kamunting di Taiping, Perak, selepas Mahkamah Persekutuan menolak rayuan mereka supaya dibebaskan daripada tahanan di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA).

Dalam penghakimannya pagi ini, Hakim Besar Malaysia yang juga pengerusi panel hakim, Datuk Alauddin Mohd Sheriff berkata arahan penahanan yang dikeluarkan oleh menteri keselamatan dalam negeri pada 13 Disember tahun lalu adalah sah dan memenuhi semua keperluan di bawah ISA.

Menurutnya, panel tiga orang hakim mahkamah tertinggi di negara ini, bersetuju dengan keputusan pesuruhjaya kehakiman Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur, Datuk Zainal Azman Abdul Aziz yang memutuskan bahawa menteri berkenaan boleh mengarahkan seseorang itu ditahan mengikut Seksyen 8, ISA pada 26 Februari lalu.

Alauddin berkata, perdana menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, atas kapasitinya sebagai menteri keselamatan dalam negeri, mempunyai hak untuk mengeluarkan arahan tahanan dan telah memenuhi keperluan prosedur di bawah akta tersebut.

Ia dipersetujui sebulat suara oleh dua lagi hakim - Datuk Arifin Zakaria dan Datuk Hashim Mohd Yusoff apabila penghakiman diumumkan pada jam 11 pagi ini.

Permohonan semak penghakiman

Keputusan hari ini bermakna lima pemimpin Hindraf itu telah menggunakan semua ruang perundangan dan akan terus ditahan di bawah ISA, yang membenarkan seseorang itu ditahan tanpa bicara.

Dalam permohonan habeas corpus mereka, kelima-limanya berhujah bahawa penahanan mereka adalah haram kerana alasan yang diberikan adalah tidak jelas mengapa mereka ditahan.

Lima pemimpin Hindraf itu - M Manohan, P Uthayakumar, V Ganabatirau, R Kengadharan dan K Vasantha Kumar - ditahan pada 13 Disember lalu bawah ISA selepas terbabit menganjurkan perhimpunan 25 November lalu serta membuat kenyataan yang berunsur hasutan terhadap kerajaan.

Peguam mereka, Gobind Singh Deo berkata, beliau kecewa dengan keputusan hari ini dan menambah pihaknya akan memfailkan permohonan supaya Mahkamah Persekutuan menyemak semula penghakimannya Isnini depan.

"Kita kecewa dengan keputusan yang ringkas dan tidak menyentuh isu-isu yang dibangkitkan di segi undang-undang untuk dipertimbangkan.

"Kami berhasrat untuk memohon satu semakan semula dan kami akan mengemukakan permohonan itu Isnin ini," katanya kepada Malaysiakini.

Tahanan ISA itu turut diwakili oleh Karpal Singh dan anaknya Ram Karpal. Hadir mewakili kerajaan ialah peguam negara, Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail.

Kelima-lima mereka ditahan mengikut Seksyen 8(1) ISA atas arahan Abdullah.

Mereka dihantar terus ke Kem Tahanan Kemunting, untuk ditahan selama dua tahun, tanpa terlebih dahulu menjalani tempoh siasatan selama 60 hari.

Kelima-lima mereka menjadi terkenal selepas menganjurkan perhimpunan yang dihadiri oleh 30,000 kaum India di ibunegara pada 25 November lalu untuk membantah peminggiran kaum tersebut.

Pihak berkuasa menggunakan gas pemedih mata dan meriam air untuk menyuraikan perhimpunan tersebut.

Para peguam Hindraf kemudiannya dihadapkan ke mahkamah atas tuduhan membuat kenyataan menghasut terhadap kerajaan manakala sebilangan mereka yang menyertai perhimpunan tersebut telah didakwa atas tuduhan menyertai perhimpunan haram dan percubaan membunuh.

Penyokong mereka bagaimanapun, mendakwa, kelima-lima pemimpin Hindraf itu - empat daripadanya peguam - hanyalah membangkit isu-isu yang membabitkan kaum India.

Pelbagai pihak termasuk parti-parti komponen Barisan Nasional seperti MIC, MCA dan Gerakan, turut menggesa kerajaan supaya membebaskan lima pemimpin Hindraf tersebut.

Urgent Appeal

Urgent Appeal: 08 May 2008

Drop Charges against Raja Petra and Syed Akbar, Respect Freedom of Speech and Expression

Three days ( 6 May 2008 ) after World Press Freedom Day (which fell on May 3), Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin and former banker Syed Akbar Ali have become the first Internet citizens to be charged with sedition.

Raja Petra Kamarudin, editor of news portal and blog, “Malaysia Today”, has been charged in the Petaling Jaya Sessions court with sedition in connection with an article he wrote, titled “Let’s send the Altantuya murderers to hell” and posted up at www.malayia-today.net on April 25, 2008 . Meanwhile, Syed Akbar Ali, has been charged for allegedly posting seditious comments about Malays and Islam on Raja Petra’s article titled “ Malaysia ’s organized crime syndicate: All roads lead to Putrajaya”.

Both of them pleaded not guilty to the charges. Kuala Lumpur Sessions court granted bail for Syed Akbar Ali at RM 3000 in one surety pending hearing on 10 June 2008 , while the Shah Alam Judge granted bail for Raja Petra at RM5000 in one surety and fixed 6 Oct 2008 for hearing.

Suaram strongly condemns the charges against Raja Petra and Syed Akbar. In our view the sedition charge is malicious and without merit. It is also politically motivated and aimed at silencing one of the most eloquent, dedicated and uncompromising voices speaking in defense of the rights of Malaysians and against the abuse of power stemming from the highest level of government and authority. We stress that a draconian law such as the Sedition Act has no place in a democratic society.

Please register your strongest condemnation towards this latest violation of human rights by the Malaysian government, and urge the government to withdraw the charges against the two immediately and unconditionally. Your protest letters should be sent to:

1. Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Prime Minister of Malaysia
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Dear Sir,

We are writing to you to express our strongest condemnation and protest against the charges against Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin and former banker Syed Akbar Ali with sedition.

Raja Petra Kamarudin, Editor of news portal and blog, “Malaysia Today”, has been charged in the Petaling Jaya Sessions court with sedition in connection with an article he wrote, titled “Let’s send the Altantuya murderers to hell” and posted up at www.malayia-today.net on April 25, 2008 . Meanwhile, Syed Akbar Ali, has been charged for allegedly posting seditious coments about Malays and Islam on Raja Petra’s article titled “ Malaysia ’s organized crime syndicate: All roads lead to Putrajaya”.

We strongly condemn the charge against Raja Petra and Syed Akbar, in our view the sedition charge is malicious and without merit. It is also politically motivated and aimed at silencing one of the most eloquent, dedicated and uncompromising voices speaking in defense of the rights of Malaysians and against the abuse of power stemming from the highest level of government and authority.

We strongly urge the Government to re-consider its action in pursuing what is being perceived in the country and internationally as blatantly selective and repressive persecution. We stress that a draconian law such as the Sedition Act has no place in a democratic society.

We further urge the government to withdraw the charges against the two immediately and unconditionally, and to respect Malaysian citizens’ fundamental rights, particularly freedom of speech and expression.


Sincerely yours,

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Newly-sworn ISA rep vows to fight

iday May 9, 2008

Newly-sworn ISA rep vows to fight

TAIPING: ISA detainee M. Manoharan has pledged to raise matters of public interest and fight for justice for all, irrespective of race, religion or descent without fear or favour.

He said this after being sworn in as a Selangor state assemblyman before Speaker Teng Chang Khim at the Kamunting detention centre yesterday.

Manoharan was among five Hindraf leaders detained last December for a two-year period under the Internal Security Act.

The swearing-in ceremony was witnessed by, among others, Manoharan’s wife S. Pushapaneela, their three children – twins Hariharan and Shivaranjini, 11, and Ganendra, nine, – and Manoharan’s father M.S. Malialam.

The 10-minute ceremony, which started at 9am, was also witnessed by Selangor state legal adviser Datin Paduka Zauyah Be T. Loth Khan and legal advisers from the Home Ministry and the Prisons Department.

In a statement made available three hours later, Manoharan thanked Teng for making the swearing-in ceremony possible and said the presence of his wife, children and father had made “my detention here less painful”.

“Today is not only a beginning for me, being officially declared a Selangor state assemblyman, but also in the war against discrimination and marginalisation,” he said in the statement which his wife read out in the presence of DAP chairman Karpal Singh.

To a question, Teng said Manoharan would not be disqualified for not being present at state assembly sittings as he could apply for leave.

Manoharan has submitted 10 questions for the first session of the state assembly commencing on May 22.