PR/BN in Sabah, S'wak should be invited to join UBA

By Joe Fernandez
KOTA KINABALU : The PR/BN chapters in Sabah and S'wak should be invited to join UBA on condition that these said chapters will achieve autonomy, if they don't already have, as soon as possible.

To avoid the Sapp kind of about-turns, those signing up with UBA should take a Public Pledge and sign a Memorandum of Understanding with all UBA members.

Bludgeoned natives to sue police

By Joseph Tawie of FMT

A father and son who were attacked by gangsters are planning to sue the police for not acting on their report and for detaining them instead.

KUCHING: A native landowner and his son who were bludgeoned by gangsters on Feb 14 last year while defending their property and who were later imprisoned by police for lodging a report on the incident, are now planning to sue the authorities.

Minggat Nyakin and his son Juan were badly beaten by the gangsters when they tried to block the thugs from extracting timber from their NCR land at Sungai Rotan and Sungai Penyaru Kuba, Sarikei.

According to Minggat, the gangsters had the intention to kill both of them, but since his son had managed to escape to seek help, they had to hurriedly left him unconscious and sprawled on the ground.

‘BN and Umno leaders pawning Sabah’

By  Queville To of FMT

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) has denounced Kota Belud MP Abdul Rahaman Dahlan’s view that Sabah is just one of the 13 states in Malaysia.

SAPP supreme council member Peter Marajin accused Abdul Rahman of denying Sabah’s autonomy by twisting the history of the proclamation of Malaysia in Sept 16, 1963.

“The proclamation of Malaysia read by Donald Stephens at Padang Bandaran on that particular day that Sabah is one of the 13 states in Malaysia does not mean Sabah’s status is the same as Perlis or Kedah in Malaya at that time. It is only a question of convenience that such proclamation was pronounced.

Slain assailant paid tribute to Dr M

PETALING JAYA: Khalil Afandi Abd Hamid, who was gunned down when he went on a rampage at the Prime Minister’s Office, had praised Dr Mahathir Mohamad and poured scorn on Najib Tun Razak.

In his last posting, the 47-year-old blogger described the former premier as the “kindest human being” whom he had come across in Malaysia.

Khalil added that he would “very much agree” if Mahathir wanted to become the prime minister again.

Rampage in Putrajaya: Duo linked to mental illness

KUALA LUMPUR: A self-proclaimed “Imam Mahadi” (Last Messiah) who was shot dead by the police when he went on a rampage with a samurai sword outside Complex B of the Prime Minister’s Department yesterday, suffered from mental illness.

His woman accomplice in the incident, who was also armed with a samurai sword and butcher’s knife, suffered from similar mental disorder, said city police today.

The police shot and injured the 28-year-old woman in the right leg. She was a former student of the International Islamic University Malaysia.

Bumburing, Lajim exit plan aborted again

By Raymond Tombung of FMT

Potential defectors Wilfred Bumburing and Lajim Ukin are
'playing tarik tali' with the BN leadership in view of
the current political scenario in Sabah.

KOTA KINABALU: Plans to enable Upko deputy president Wilfred Mojilip Bumburing and Umno warlord Lajim Ukin to announce their exit from Barisan Nasional have been aborted.

Senior PKR leaders and the organising officials of the gatherings on July 15 in Beaufort (for Lajim) and in Tuaran (for Bumburing) have confirmed that the planned jump by Bumburing and Lajim has been “suddenly aborted, or postponed”.

The development has heightened curiosity amongst observers.

Senior PKR leaders, who are disheartened by the turn of events, were given varied reasons for the cancellation of Bumburing’s formal announcement to ditch BN.

More than 30 arrested in Kuantan over Cameron Highlands problems

KUANTAN: Once again the rights of the people to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression have been violated when police personnel arrested more than 40 people who sought an audience from Pahang Chief Minister Datuk Seri Adnan Yaacob to resolve their grievances.

Residents from Cameron Highlands have put up makeshift camps in front of the Pahang Chief Minister’s Office, at Wisma Sri Pahang since today morning. The residents have sent 17 letters to Cameron District Office, had 7 meetings with them, sent 15 letters to Pahang Chief Minister and met twice, sent 4 letters to the Prime Minister’s Office and meeting them twice. But till now their issues have not been resolved.

Among those arrested were a five year old child and the oldest being a 90 year old woman.

7 Issues affecting the people are as below:

a.       4 farmers case who have been farming for more than 40 years but not given TOL license.

b.      1 case of land grab by BN cronies although the occupant has been staying for more than 42 years.

c.       1 case of applying for land more than 30 years but no response.

d.      Application for shop rejected after applying 3 times but approved to a crony.

e.       1 case of a single mother given hope of owning a shop but was later evicted and shop demolished.

f.       4 cases of families at Green Cow facing risk of landslide

g.      2 cases of Kea Farm shops that are facing eviction for development.

 

SUARAM urge the police to show respect of the people’s freedom of expression and assembly and release all those arrested immediately. The special rapporteur on Freedom of Assembly of Association, Maina Kiai has warned that Malaysia as a member state of Human rights council to stop restricting and limiting on the exercise of Freedom of Assembly. But what we have seen today is a direct insult to the human rights council.

 

Malaysia has already an atrocious international record on democracy and human rights and it should not join the ranks of rogue countries universally regarded as most notorious and infamous for their reckless disregard for the most basic human rights - human dignity and life. 

 

Released by,

R.Thevarajan

SUARAM Coordinator

 

What can you do?
We urge you to write a letter to the relevant authorities of Malaysia to voice your concerns over the intimidation and threat faced by the people and demand immediate negotiation with the people to resolve the problem.

SAMPLE LETTER

[Letterhead of your organisation]

Tan Sri Ismail Omar,

IInspector General of Royal Malaysian Police

Ibu Pejabat Polis Diraja Malaysia,

Bukit Aman,

50560 Kuala Lumpur.

Tel: 603-2266 2222
Fax: 603-2070 7500
E-Mail: rmp@rmp.gov.my

Dear Sir,
STOP THE INTIMIDATION AND TAKE ACTION NOW!

We ________________________________________________ are writing to you, to express our outrage and our strongest condemnation over the crackdown on the people of Cameron Highlands whom are occupying the Office of Pahang Chief Minister (Menteri Besar Pahang).

More than 40 people consisting of all walks of life want Datuk Seri Adnan Yaacob to solve their issues which has been pending for more than 4 years.

 We strongly urge you, once again, to stop bringing shame to Malaysia, a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council. We would like to remind you that freedom of expression is guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as the Federal Constitution of Malaysia.

Yours sincerely,
[Name]
[Position]

 

 

1.      Dato' Sri Mohd Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak,

Prime Minister of Malaysia,

Prime Minister's Office,

Main Block, Perdana Putra Building,

Federal Government Administrative Centre,

62502 Putrajaya , MALAYSIA

Tel: 603-8888 8000

Fax: 603-8888 3444

E-Mail: ppm@pmo.gov.my

 

2.      Chief Minister of Pahang,

YAB Dato Seri Haji Adnan bin Haji Yaakob,

Wisma Sri Pahang, 25503 Kuantan,

Tel : 09-5121155/09-5121682/685, 
Faks : 09-5157766
Emel  : mb@pahang.gov.my

 

 

3.        Chairman,

Tan Sri Hasmy Agam,

Chairman,

Malaysian Human Rights Commission,

Level 11, Menara TH Perdana,

Jalan Sultan Ismail,

50250 Kuala Lumpur.

Tel:  03 26125600

Fax: 03 26125620

4.      OCPD Mohd Jasmani

Kuantan District Police Station
Jalan Mahkota
25000 Kuantan,
Pahang.

Tel:  09-5132222, 5132512

Fax: 09-5130454, 5157119

Email: kpdkuantan@rmp.gov.my

 

5.        Mr. Frank La Rue
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
Palais des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland
Fax: +41 22 917 9006
Email: freedex@ohchr.or

 

6.       Ms. Margaret Sekaggya,

Special Rapporteur on the situation on human rights defenders,

Email: defenders@ohchr.org, urgent-action@ohchr.org, ksmeby@ohchr.org

 

7.      Mr. Maina Kiai

Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association

Palais des Nations

CH-1211 Geneva 10

Switzerland

Fax : + 41 22 917 9006

Email : freeassembly@ohchr.org

 

 

8.      Daniel Collinge
Human Rights Officer
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division
Asia-Pacific Section
Room 4.32
Tel:   +41 (0) 22 928 9173
Email: dcollinge@ohchr.org

 

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Particulars of Hindraf's claim as first filed on 31 Aug 2007. This forms 95 per cent of the 2 July 2012 refiling

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE Claim No.

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION

BETWEEN:

WAYTHA MOORTHY PONNUSAMY (Suing in his personal capacity and as representing and for the benefit of all persons interested in and who are Malaysian citizens of Indian origin)
Claimant

-and-


SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
Defendant

__________________________¬¬__

PARTICULARS OF CLAIM
____________________________

1. The Claimant is and was at all material times a Malaysian citizen bearer of identity card number A 0480890 and Malaysian Passport number A 14915290 a Barrister of The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn currently practicing as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in Ipoh and residing at No 39 Desa Lang Indah 5 30200 Ipoh Perak Malaysia.

STAR to contest only 32 DUN seats, says deputy

By Awang Ahmad Sah Awang Sahari
KOTA KINABALU: I am responding to the piece put up by the deputy president of Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP), Amde Sidek, in FreeMalaysiaToday days ago on issues related to SAPP - Star relations vis-a-vis negotiations for seats at the coming general election.

Although we all subscribe to one communal politics through the so-called multi racial politics, all political parties must be realistic on the issue of which party is more acceptable by the grassroots.

All opposition parties must be sincere if they are serious for a one to one fight against the Barisan Nasional. You can't go to a negotiating table and say you want 40 (out of 60) seats which by itself doesn't help much to achieve a one to one fight.

‘Govt must subsidise transport to Sabah’

The federal government must provide proof that
freight charges have no impact on the price of
consumer goods in Sabah.

By Azman Habu of FMT

TAWAU: The federal government must subsidise trans-shipment of goods to Sabah in order to standardise the prices of consumer goods in the state with that in Peninsular Malaysia.

Tawau MP Chua Soon Bui said talks have been going on for years with no solution in sight while consumers have been forced to cough up more money for goods that are cheaper in the peninsula.

“If the federal government can afford to subsidise the toll charges on federal highways for billions of ringgits, there’s no reason why the same cannot be done for transport to Sabah as a result of the cabotage policy,” she said over the weekend.