Detention without trial in Malaysia

Being ISA detainee ‘095’ for seven years

By Clara Chooi

August 01, 2010

Read about a former ISA detainees seven years of detention without trial in oppressive Malaysia.

Please click HERE

Anwar Ibrahim’s ongoing “Show Trial”

Anwar Ibrahim & his wife Wan Azizah

Read an opinion in an article published in a Canadian newspaper, The Globe and Mail, by clicking HERE

Extract:

“The presence of so many foreign embassies attending Mr. Anwar's show trial is a clear expression of international concern. This is an issue on which the world must speak out.”

You can read what was said in an article published in the Los Angeles Times by clicking HERE

Extract:

"Legal records suggest that sodomy charges under Section 377 have been leveled only seven times in Malaysia in 70 years, according to thenutgraph.com, an independent Malaysian news website, with four of those charges being against Anwar."

To read a BBC news article on this issue, please click HERE

Extract: "Umno is too rotten to be saved"

Commune periculum concordiam parit

Common dangers bring forth harmony

Diligite justitiam, o judices terrae

Cherish justice, o judges of the earth

MURDEROUS MALAYSIA , MANY MURDERS MANIFESTING MALE FIDE

Getting away with murder in Malaysia is not that uncommon, if you are well connected you can get actually away with cold blooded murder in Malaysia, read the article from Asia Sentinal by clicking HERE, then you will know what goes on in Malaysia.

read also HERE

It is utterly disgusting, so shameful, undoubtedly unjust and downright despicable, but if has happened, and no doubt will continue to happen, in Malaysia while the BN / UMNO government is in power with apparent impunity and immunity!

Male Fide means:

bad faith, noun: intentional dishonest act by not fulfilling legal or contractual obligations, misleading another, entering into an agreement without the intention or means to fulfill it, or violating basic standards of honesty in dealing with others. Most states recognize what is called "implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing" which is breached by acts of bad faith, for which a lawsuit may be brought (filed) for the breach (just as one might sue for breach of contract).

bad faith noun abjection, abjectness, abscondence, apostasy, artifice, base conduct, betrayal, betrayment, breach of faith, broken faith, broken promise, collaboration, complicity, connivance, cozenage, debasement, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, defection, delusion, delusiveness, dereliction, dereliction of duty, deviation from rectitude, deviousness, disaffection, disavowal, dishonesty, dishonor, disingenuousness, disloyalty, disobedience, double-dealing, duplicity, fallaciousness, false pretension, false swearing, falseheartedness, falseness, forswearing, fraud, fraudulency, furtiveness, guile, hypocrisy, ignominy, improbity, indiscretion, infidelity, insidiousness, insincerity, inveracity, lack of conscience, lack of fidelity, lack of principle, lack of probity, mala fides, malversation, mendaciousness, mendacity, misfeasance, misrepresentation, obliquity, perfidiousness, perfidy, pettifoggery, pretense, pretext, punic faith, recantation, recreancy, reprobacy, sedition, spuriousness, subterfuge, subversion, subversive activity, suppression of truth, surreptitiousness, traitorousness, treacherousness, treachery, turpitude, unauthenticity, unconscientiousness, underhand dealing, unfairness, unfaith, unfaithfulness, unfaithworthiness, ungenuineness, unloyalty, unsteadfastness, untrueness, untrustiness, untruthfulness, unveraciousness, unveracity, venality, violation of allegiance, violation of duty

OF BAD FAITH: Perhaps a most apt expression for BN / UMNO?

Commodum ex iniuria sua nemo habere debet

No person ought to have advantage from his own wrong

Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus

False in one thing, false in all

Sodomy charges are 'Pathetic' Anwar Ibrahim says

Anwar Ibrahim

Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim calls the sodomy charges against him 'pathetic' but he says the opposition is making plans for the future should he be convicted or die.

Anwar told this to an audience on Monday 5^th October 2009 at Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC, USA, saying that there is no evidence to support charges that he sodomised a 24-year-old male former aide last year.

He also said in a news report, that Malaysia is dealing with 'semi-authoritarian rule' and therefore the opposition must plan for a possible conviction or his death.

Anwar also said, Malaysia must also shake off 'race-based politics' and move to a true democracy.

Ab actu ad posse valet illatio

From what has happened we could infer what may happen

Ad astra per aspera

To the stars through difficulty

Mega Rally Planned for Wednesday 8th July 2009 at the Kuala Lumpur court complex

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Mega Rally on the first day of Anwar Ibrahim's 'Sodomy II' Trial on Wednesday 8^th July 2009 at the Kuala Lumpur court complex where the trial will open , about 5,000 patriots are expected to assemble, they will all be wearing black clothes, such as T shirts.

Shamsul Iskandar Mohammad Akin, National Justice Party (Keadilan Nasional) youth chief, said;

'We want to have a gathering to show our support for Anwar and to tell the world that these allegations made against him are false and baseless' '

The government is attacking him because they do not want to see his reform agenda for Malaysia to succeed,'

Read the full story by clicking HERE

BLACK ATTIRE DE RIGUERE

SLOGAN OPTIONAL

Facta, non verba

Deeds, not words

Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo

Resolutely in action, gently in manner

Part 2 The Gates of Hell Home at Kuala Kubu Baru

Where the Ray of Hope was extinguished

The Mindful Mariner's own comments:

This so called sheltered home (it is more like a Hell Hole) belongs to and is run by the Malaysian Government, through the Department of Social Welfare which is under the control of the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development.

Disciplinary action needs to be taken from top to bottom, at both the Ministry & the Department; in fact the honourable thing initially, would be for the Minister (Sharizat Abdul Jalil) and the DG of the Social Welfare Department (Meme Zainal Rashid) to resign forthwith.

Then all types of care homes, shelters, orphanages and other similar institutions, public and private, should thoroughly checked and independently audited. After that they should all, without exception, be required to be operated to impeccable international standards of best practice.

Subsequently the Social Welfare Department should conduct regular frequent and comprehensive inspections of all shelters, care homes and orphanages for the disadvantaged in Malaysian society.

To ensure:

1. They are all fully equipped, sanitary and are run in a professional, caring, humane way.

2. That the are staffed by sufficient numbers of qualified, able, caring and dedicated staff.

3. That all the residents receive good quality, nutritional healthy food in sufficient quantities.

4. That all residents receive regular medical examinations and adequate health care.

And many other things, about which others are better qualified than me, need to be set out in full clearly mandating what has to be done.

PS But I am not too hopeful that effective sustained action will be taken.

There will be buckets of faux tears, sympathetic [or perhaps a better word is pathetic] remarks, much empty talking, but very little or more likely no effective action, as per usual!!!!

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The statements by th Malaysian Bar Council:

Bar Council constitutional law committee chairman Edmund Bon said he was shocked to learn how the residents were being treated, describing it as “cruel and degrading”.

Statement by a human rights lawyer:

Amer Hamzah, human rights lawyer called on those responsible for the care of the residents to be charged with a criminal offence should there be any evidence of physical abuse resulting from the treatment.

See the news report HERE

Lots of reaction and a flurry of what is probably an attempt at 'clearing yardarms' and 'reactive damage control' from the government and their agencies:

Civil servants from the Social Welfare Department, the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry, volunteers and hoards of media personnel descended upon the home on Sunday 5^th July 2009, after the wicked, cruel and degrading conditions there were exposed by the Star newspaper.

Minister of Health Liow Tiong Lai, reportedly ordered his staff to check on the residents of the home in Kuala Kubu Baru, and said he was wants those who are confirmed to have mental problems, to be transferred to government hospital psychiatric wards for treatment.

Click HERE

Other related Stories HERE, HERE, & HERE

Oh Shit! Add a little to a little, and there will be a great heap.*

Watch out for the swarms of politicians!

*Adde parum parvo, magnus acervus erit

Of course the politicians involved, and their minions, will now be buzzing around like flies round a turd trying to gain political mileage out of the misery they have directly or indirectly inflicted on the inmates of government run shelter homes.

"Politicians love visible beneficiaries and invisible victims." Dr. Walter Williams

"God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell." P.J. O'Rourke

"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." H. L. Mencken

Human Rights in Malaysia: Different Day, Same Shit

So June 2009 is already here, and we are not that far away from the end of the first decade of the 21st Century, yet in many ways Malaysia is still, it seems, in the middle ages!

Malaysia still has many archaic, draconian and loosely worded 'catch-all' laws which result in people receiving, inhuman, cruel, degrading punishments.

Prisons, Detention Camps and the illegal immigrant Detention Centres run by the immigration department are all places where the living conditions, the food, the health care and the general facilities are to say the least appalling and inhuman.

The recent outbreak of leptosporosis at the illegal immigrant Detention Centre near Juru recently is a case in point, which highlights how unhealthy and insanitary such places are.

Prisons should provide reasonable living conditions, nutritious food, clean water and be fit for purpose. Surely it is punishment enough to be locked up away from family and friends, without the addition suffering cause by inhuman and unhealthy living conditions.

The UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

Adopted by the First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, held at Geneva in 1955, and approved by the Economic and Social Council by its resolution 663 C (XXIV) of 31 July 1957 and 2076 (LXII) of 13 May 1977

This old set of Rules, lays down minimum standards, one can but wonder even if these basic minimum standards are met in Malaysia even now in the 21st Century.

Click HERE for more information.

Dum inter homines sumus, colamus humanitatem


As long as we are among humans, let us be humane


Ut sementem feceris, ita metes


As you sow, so shall you reap

Amnesty International Malaysia

THE AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT 2009 ON MALAYSIA was recently published, and in it you can read what this report says, you will find if you click HERE

Headlines cover such things as:

Freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and freedom of he press are denied in Malaysia

Detention without trial, is a common practice, which is condoned by evil laws

Excessive use of force by the multitude of enforcement authorities in Malaysia is not uncommon

Migrants have few if any rights, refugees and asylum-seekers are not afforded adequate protection

True freedom of religion is not practised

Discrimination is common, and in fact it is the norm in many instances

The Death Penalty is still in force in Malaysia and cruel, inhuman and degrading punishments are still standard practice.

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum


So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds

More Arrests under Malaysia's Draconian ISA

Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA (GMI) [The Abolish ISA Movement] has said three people, including an Indonesian citizen, were arrested recently under Section 73 (1) of Internal Security Act 1960 (ISA) and have been detained for an initial 60 days for investigations.

GMI president Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh handed two memorandum to Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) Commissioner S.Siva Subramaniam today, he said the three recent detainees are Agus Salim, aged 32, Abdul Matin Anol Rahmat, aged 60, and Indonesian Johar Hassan.

Syed Ibrahim said with the three latest arrests, there are now 30 people under ISA detention without trail, four of them have been detained without trail for more than six years.

ABOLISH THE EVIL, OPPRESSIVE & DRACONIAN ISA!

Read the full news report in the Sun Daily Malaysia HERE

These detentions under the Internal Security Act(ISA) are confirmed by Malaysia's Inspector General of Police (IGP)

"Inspector General of Police Musa Hassan confirmed the three men were being held but declined to elaborate. Home Ministry officials who could comment were not immediately available."

read the full news report HERE

Homo homini lupus


Man is a wolf to man

Iustitia omnibus

Justice for all

RPK is a free man, video

A video from Malaysiakini / YouTube

RPK's release from unlawful detention under the ISA




Straits Times, Singapore, report HERE


FREE ALL THOSE DETAINED WITHOUT TRIAL


Iustitia omnibus


Justice for all

RPK TO BE FREED TODAY

WONDERFUL NEWS

Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin is to be freed today 7th November 2008.

Raja Petra Kamarudin was successful in his bid to obtain a release order from detention under the Internal Security Act (ISA) via a habeas corpus application.

The judge ruled that the Home Minister (Hamid Albar) had acted outside his jurisdiction when he issued the two-year detention order under Section 8(1) of the ISA.

The High Court in Shah Alam also allowed Raja Petra to be brought to court to be released today.

He was detained under the archaic and draconian ISA for a second time on 12th September 2008.

One small step for justice, one small step for democracy in Malaysia.

The Home Affairs minister Hamid Albar should be sacked immediately.

THE ABHORRENT ISA

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A typical ISA *

The ISA is a wicked political tool used,

by

Ignorant Stupid Arseholes *

to

Incarcerate Suppress Abhorrently,

image from mob1900

PLEASE LIGHT A CANDLE TONIGHT

& EVERY NIGHT

CONTINUE THE CANDLELIGHT VIGIL

UNTIL THE WICKED ISA IS REPEALED

ABOLISH THE ISA


FREE ALL ISA DETAINEES!

FREE ALL THOSE DETAINED WITHOUT TRIAL

Causarum justia et misericordia



For the causes of justice and mercy

AN UNDEMOCRATIC MALAYSIA. Articles on Aliran web site

For a broader perspective please read the articles below which are from the Aliran web site

http://www.aliran.com/

GMI condemns use of ISA on blogger Raja Petra. HERE

All must condemn Raja Petra’s arrest and show-cause letters. HERE

Release Raja Petra and retract show cause letters. HERE

Hoc tempore obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit

In these days friends are won through flattery, the truth gives birth to hate

Vincit omnia veritas

Truth conquers all

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.