PR MASS RALLY TONIGHT AT KELANA JAYA STADIUM

Pakatan Rakyat (Peoples' Alliance) has announced a mass rally in a show of solidarity for Raja Petra Kamaruddin and DAP MP Teresa Kok now being held under the Internal Security Act (ISA) and to demand their release.

The police have issued a permit for this rally (under repressive laws in Malaysia all gatherings require a police permit)

The rally will be peaceful, but the organisers and those attending will need to be aware that there may well be agents provocateur mingling in with the crowd, troublemakers from the political and perhaps the religious lunatic fringe, who may try to stir up trouble. It is not too far fetched to postulated that the some agents provocateur may be from groups within the Barisan Nasional, or even the police themselves? Anything is possible!

But let us hope that there will be no trouble makers, and that the rally will proceed in an orderly and peaceful manner.

The rally is being held tonight (Monday 15th September 2008) from 19:00; the eve of Malaysia Day (16th September) which is opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's self imposed deadline to take over the government through defections of MPs from the ruling BN coalition.

Extracts from the Malaysakini website:

The opposition alliance said it expected some 30,000 supporters to gather for the rally in Kelana Jaya stadium on Monday night to call for the release of the two still detained, after the journalist was freed Saturday.

It will be held on the eve of September 16, Anwar's deadline to seize power and also the day in 1963 when Sabah and Sarawak joined together with Malaya to form modern Malaysia.

"We gained independence but Malaysians continue to live under repression. We believe Malaysia Day should symbolise freedom, justice and equality," said PKR information chief Tian Chua.

"The gathering at Kelana Jaya stadium is to express our solidarity for the two people held under the draconian security law and to demand their freedom," he told AFP.

Rights groups have condemned the use of the Internal Security Act (ISA), which allows for indefinite detention without trial, and the United States summoned Malaysia's top envoy in Washington in protest over the arrests.


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Hamid Albar Talks Cock, once again!

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Can you believe the bullshit, misinformation, fudging and drivel that emanates from the mouths of people like Hamid Albar?

I certainly cannot.

Does he think all Malaysians are unthinking, uneducated, and / or brainless?


Firstly regarding Ms. Tan Hoon Cheng's arrest under the ISA


Sin Chew Daily News reporter Tan Hoon Cheng, who was arrested under the Internal Security Act 1960, maybe released as soon as today, Saturday 13th September 2008, the day after her arrest, so home affairs minister Hamid Albar was reported to have said.

He went on to explain that Tan was detained under Section 73(1) of the Act in order to ensure her safety as police intelligence indicated that there were threats to her life after she reported on Bukit Bendera division UMNO chairman (now former chairman) Ahmad Ismail’s racist remarks.

“We have no intention of holding a reporter as after all she was just taking notes of the comments made by a certain party that led to a public debate."

“She maybe released as soon as today after police have obtained all information needed,” he said, adding that the reporter’s detention was part of the police preventive action.

If that really was the case, why on earth was she arrested under the ISA?

She could have been provided with 24/7 police protection instead!

Have those who have threatened to kill her been neutralised, by being arrested, or otherwise?

Now what Hamid said regarding Teresa Kok.

When he was asked about the detention of MP and Selangor senior executive councillor Teresa Kok, under the ISA, Hamid said she was arrested due to her comments on mosques and the Azan (call to prayer, which is broadcast by loudspeakers from all mosques in Malaysia) recently, which had 'created a lot of problems and public disorder'.

He added that no more arrests under ISA are expected but it would depend on the situation of public order.

More bullshit, unbelievable utterances and fudging.

Let's see how these wicked, convoluted and devious 'sandiwara' (Malay dramas), and 'wayang kulit' (shadow plays) play out!

The Star story HERE

Verum et factum convertuntur

The true and the made are interchangeable

Teresa Kok is the latest to be arrested under the ISA

Teresa Kok

The Star report is HERE

DAP's Teresa Kok is the latest to be arrested under the ISA Section 73 (1), Kok, who is Seputeh MP and also assemblyman for Kinrara, was arrested at 11.20pm on Friday 12^th September 2008.

Deputy IGP Ismail Omar has confirmed Kok's arrest.

Tan Hoon Cheng

Earlier, Sin Chew Daily News reporter Tan Hoon Cheng was arrested from her home in Taman Permai in Bukit Mertajam at 8.40pm Friday.

Family members said they were told that she would be taken to the Bandar Perda police station in Seberang Jaya.

Ismail Omar said was also arrested under Section 73 (1) of the ISA.

Tan, a Mass Communications graduate from Universiti Sains Malaysia, has been a journalist for the last nine years.

She had reported on former Bukit Bendera division UMNO chief Ahmad Ismail's alleged racist remarks while campaigning for the Permatang Pauh by-election.

The arrest comes on the same day that Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin was detained, under the ISA.