Najib dan kerajaan UMNO-BN nampaknya tidak peduli individu rakyat Malaysia terus mati digantung. Ya...mereka hanya orang biasa...bukan seseorang yang masyur, kaya atau berpengaruh..
Malaysia dalam proses yang mungkin kesudahan dengan pemansuhan hukuman mati mandatori - di mana hukuman mati mandatori merampas budibicara hakim mengenakan hukuman yang wajar bergantung kepada fakta sesuatu kes. Hukuman mandatori bermaksud bahawa bila mahkamah mendapati seseorang itu bersalah, hakim tidak ada kuasa memberikan hukuman yang sesuai dan adil, tetapi terpaksa mengenakan satu-satu hukuman mandatori yang ditetapkan undang-undang - teruk sekali bila hukuman mandatori itu adalah hukuman mati...
Belas Kasihan, Keinsafan, Peluang Kedua, Kemaafan...kesemuanya tidak menjadi faktor dalam kes sesuatu jenayah yang mempunyai hukuman mandatori... Adakah ini nilai dan prinsip rakyat Malaysia yang beraneka agama ...dan budaya. Tambahan pula, hakim juga boleh melakukan silap ...lihat berapa banyak kes di mana Mahkamah menukar pendapat ...bila rayuan dibenarkan dan mereka yang telah disabitkan dibebaskan. Kini, ramai percaya juga Mahkamah silap dalam kes Anwar Ibrahim...nasib baik jenayah tersebut tak ada hukuman mati mandatori??? Ya, mahkamah akan cuba tak buat silap tetapi hakim pun hanya manusia dan kesilapan boleh berlaku...
Hadi Awang dan PAS juga nampaknya berpendirian tak mahu hukuman mati - SYABAS...Lihat usul RUU 355
Orang kaya mungkin ada peguam hebat dan ada keupayaan membuat pembelaan yang lebih berkesan...tidak sama bagi yang miskin. Malangnya, jika dilihat, kebanyakkan yang telah dihukum gantung di Malaysia adalah mereka daripada golongan berpendapatan rendah dan...
Najib dan Kabinet telah diberikan keputusan kajian oleh pihak Pendakwaraya dan Menteri berkenaan, yang saya percaya mengesyorkan hukuman mati, terutama hukuman mandatori dimansuhkan.Kuasa akan dikembalikan kepada hakim untuk menentukan hukuman wajar..
Tetapi, sedih sekali Najib dan kabinet minta membuat kajian lebih...ya...benar mereka yang dalam penjara tak tahu bila akan digantung bukan orang 'kaya' atau popular ...sama juga mereka yang kini tahan tanpa bicara di bawah POCA, POTA,...Keprihatinan kepada semua rakyat amat perlu...
Dalam keadaan ini, secara munasabah, adil sekali jangan gantung sehingga mati sesiapa pun sehingga keputusan muktamad dibuat...
Kes terbaru - 2 lagi dibunuh ...mereka melakukan rompakan di mana senjati api digunakan dan tembakan dilepaskan. Tetapi nampaknya tidak ada orang yang cedera pun...wajarkah dalam situasi sedikian, seseorang digantung sehingga mati? Ya - ini juga jenayah yang mempunyai hukuman mandatori - hukuman mati..
Satu alasan mengunakan hukuman mati adalah untuk mempengaruh orang lain daripada membuat kesalahan sama...tetapi di Malaysia, semua dilakukan secara 'rahsia'...dan, secara tambahan, alasan ini sudah didapati langsung tak berkesan...
Adakah mereka merompak kerana kegagalan kerajaan UMNO-BN? Biasa ramai miskin terdesak...ini mungkin boleh dikatakan salah kerajaan UMNO-BN yang gagal memastikan semua rakyat ada pendapatan memadai...kerja tetap.... Mengapa seseorang itu mencuri? merompak? ...mungkin kerana 'tak ada pilihan lain'... tetapi mungkin juga saperti kes rasuah atau 'kleptocracy' - mereka hanya mahu lebih dan lebih...?
Hadi Awang's position that there should be no DEATH PENALTY should be applauded. It is a very progressive and correct position, consistent with international trend towards abolition of the death penalty.
Media statement by Democratic Action Party Member of Parliament for Batu Kawan and member of the Parliamentarians for Global Action Kasthuri Patto on Wednesday, 24 March 2017 in Penang.
Malaysia dalam proses yang mungkin kesudahan dengan pemansuhan hukuman mati mandatori - di mana hukuman mati mandatori merampas budibicara hakim mengenakan hukuman yang wajar bergantung kepada fakta sesuatu kes. Hukuman mandatori bermaksud bahawa bila mahkamah mendapati seseorang itu bersalah, hakim tidak ada kuasa memberikan hukuman yang sesuai dan adil, tetapi terpaksa mengenakan satu-satu hukuman mandatori yang ditetapkan undang-undang - teruk sekali bila hukuman mandatori itu adalah hukuman mati...
MALAYSIA’S CABINET’S DELAY IN TABLING LAWS ABOLISHING THE DEATH PENALTY RISKS UNNECESSARY LOSS OF LIFE -Immediate Moratorium On ALL Executions -
UMNO-BN must trust Judges to pronounce right sentences - Repeal Mandatory Death Penalty
Belas Kasihan, Keinsafan, Peluang Kedua, Kemaafan...kesemuanya tidak menjadi faktor dalam kes sesuatu jenayah yang mempunyai hukuman mandatori... Adakah ini nilai dan prinsip rakyat Malaysia yang beraneka agama ...dan budaya. Tambahan pula, hakim juga boleh melakukan silap ...lihat berapa banyak kes di mana Mahkamah menukar pendapat ...bila rayuan dibenarkan dan mereka yang telah disabitkan dibebaskan. Kini, ramai percaya juga Mahkamah silap dalam kes Anwar Ibrahim...nasib baik jenayah tersebut tak ada hukuman mati mandatori??? Ya, mahkamah akan cuba tak buat silap tetapi hakim pun hanya manusia dan kesilapan boleh berlaku...
Hadi Awang dan PAS juga nampaknya berpendirian tak mahu hukuman mati - SYABAS...Lihat usul RUU 355
Dato’ Seri Abdul Hadi bin Awang [ Marang ] akan mencadangkan:-...
“Bahawa Dewan ini ...2A. Dalam menjalankan undang-undang jenayah di bawah Seksyen 2 Mahkamah Syariah berhak menjatuhkan hukuman yang dibenarkan oleh undang-undang syariah berkaitan hal-hal kesalahan yang disenaraikan di bawah seksyen yang disebutkan diatas, selain dari hukuman mati.” - lihat Act 355 and Hadi's Motion - Are we unnecessarily jumping to conclusions? Prejudice?
Orang kaya mungkin ada peguam hebat dan ada keupayaan membuat pembelaan yang lebih berkesan...tidak sama bagi yang miskin. Malangnya, jika dilihat, kebanyakkan yang telah dihukum gantung di Malaysia adalah mereka daripada golongan berpendapatan rendah dan...
Najib dan Kabinet telah diberikan keputusan kajian oleh pihak Pendakwaraya dan Menteri berkenaan, yang saya percaya mengesyorkan hukuman mati, terutama hukuman mandatori dimansuhkan.Kuasa akan dikembalikan kepada hakim untuk menentukan hukuman wajar..
Tetapi, sedih sekali Najib dan kabinet minta membuat kajian lebih...ya...benar mereka yang dalam penjara tak tahu bila akan digantung bukan orang 'kaya' atau popular ...sama juga mereka yang kini tahan tanpa bicara di bawah POCA, POTA,...Keprihatinan kepada semua rakyat amat perlu...
Dalam keadaan ini, secara munasabah, adil sekali jangan gantung sehingga mati sesiapa pun sehingga keputusan muktamad dibuat...
Kes terbaru - 2 lagi dibunuh ...mereka melakukan rompakan di mana senjati api digunakan dan tembakan dilepaskan. Tetapi nampaknya tidak ada orang yang cedera pun...wajarkah dalam situasi sedikian, seseorang digantung sehingga mati? Ya - ini juga jenayah yang mempunyai hukuman mandatori - hukuman mati..
Satu alasan mengunakan hukuman mati adalah untuk mempengaruh orang lain daripada membuat kesalahan sama...tetapi di Malaysia, semua dilakukan secara 'rahsia'...dan, secara tambahan, alasan ini sudah didapati langsung tak berkesan...
Adakah mereka merompak kerana kegagalan kerajaan UMNO-BN? Biasa ramai miskin terdesak...ini mungkin boleh dikatakan salah kerajaan UMNO-BN yang gagal memastikan semua rakyat ada pendapatan memadai...kerja tetap.... Mengapa seseorang itu mencuri? merompak? ...mungkin kerana 'tak ada pilihan lain'... tetapi mungkin juga saperti kes rasuah atau 'kleptocracy' - mereka hanya mahu lebih dan lebih...?
Hadi Awang's position that there should be no DEATH PENALTY should be applauded. It is a very progressive and correct position, consistent with international trend towards abolition of the death penalty.
Media statement by Democratic Action Party Member of Parliament for Batu Kawan and member of the Parliamentarians for Global Action Kasthuri Patto on Wednesday, 24 March 2017 in Penang.
Highly
immoral, inhumane and a gross misconduct on the part of the Najib
administration under the Barisan Nasional government to continue with
executions on prisoners on death row when the Attorney General has
not presented recommendations to the Cabinet to amend laws on the
mandatory death penalty.
In
the wee hours of this morning, 24 May 2017, 2 men had been executed
at Sungai Buloh Prison – a Malaysian Chinese and Yong Kar Mun, 48
who was sentenced to death in 2009 for armed robbery.
The
double execution this morning comes as a grave shock to Members of
Parliament, the Malaysian Bar, Amnesty International, the Human
Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) and other human rights
bodies, but most importantly, the unconsolable grief of the 2
families who had not been notified on the exact date and time of the
secretive nature of the executions of these two men.
Time
and time again, lawmakers have been questioning the government in the
Malaysian Parliament on the status of the abolition of the death
penalty in Malaysia and stressing on an immediate moratorium on the
death penalty pending possible amendments to laws that warrant the
death sentence as a method of punishment and revenge.
On
5th September 2016 a Special Task force had been formed on
the abolition of the death penalty attended by MP for Ipoh Barat M.
Kulasegaran, SUHAKAM, Amnesty International, The Attorney General's
Chambers, academicians, the Malaysian Bar Council, Home Ministry and
also the National Security Council. On 1st March this
year, the Cabinet was presented with the findings of a research by
Roger Hood and International Centre for Law
and Legal Studies (I-CeLLS)
by
the Attorney General himself whereby the Cabinet had decided
and agreed
that provisional amendments to Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act
1952 by including that discretionary
powers
be given to courts to mete
out the punishment befitting the crime.
In
the last Parliament sitting in April, Minister in the Prime
Minister's Department Azalina Othman cemented the fact that a
memorandum from the Cabinet together with the proposed amendments to
the DDA 1952 will be brought again to the Cabinet for further
consideration. Dato
Azalina also stressed that the mandatory death penalty has proven
that it is NOT a deterrent
to crime.
The
government has committed countless
times over the years, to
amend provisions in the law to grant discretionary
powers to the courts on drug related offences that carry the
mandatory death penalty and
yet appears apprehensive in committing to see it through. Why then
the chest thump on transforming Malaysia into a nation that upholds
and respects human rights when it is not serious on imposing a
moratorium on all death row cases, across the board until
discussions, meetings and even amendments are made?
While
the Attorney General prepares the documents on the amendments of the
law on the mandatory death penalty, executions are still going
on in
Malaysian prisons and
in
this
year alone, Malaysia
executed 4 people in
5 months!
The
Najib administration has violated international human rights
standards and laws in its persistent lack of transparency in carrying
out executions.
It
appears that the Malaysian government is more keen on executing
prisoners than making just, reformist, progressive, positive changes
in the law to uphold, promote, protect and defend human rights.
Until
and unless Prime
Minister Najib Razak pull the brakes and halt ALL executions and
impose a moratorium until law reforms have been made to safeguard the
sanctity and the spirit of the right to life and human rights in
Malaysia, vision TN50 will be merely a hollow meaningless effort to
transform Malaysia into a developed, progressive nation.
I
call upon the Attorney General, the Prime Minister Najib Razak and
the PM's Department to present the findings on the research to
abolish the death penalty in the next Cabinet meeting and in the same
vein to propose and to impose a moratorium on ALL death row prisoners
until the matter is brought to Parliament, debated and passed.
Highly
immoral, inhumane and a gross misconduct on the part of the Najib
administration under the Barisan Nasional government to continue with
executions on prisoners on death row when the Attorney General has
not presented recommendations to the Cabinet to amend laws on the
mandatory death penalty.
Kasthuri
Patto
Member
of Parliament for Batu Kawan
Publicity
Secretary of Wanita DAP
Member
of the Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) for the Abolition of
the Death Penalty
Democratic
Action Party
*****
Yong Kar Mun, a 48-year-old former mineral
water seller convicted of discharging a firearm in the course of a robbery and
another man convicted of murder were executed around 5.30am today at Sungai
Buloh Prison.
“The secretive way through which the Malaysian authorities have been carrying out executions is plain cruel. In these and previous executions, the authorities have added considerable distress to the prisoners and their families and shown blatant disregard for international law and standards − it is high time this practice stopped,” Amnesty International Malaysia Executive Director Shamini Darshni Kaliemuthu said.
Yong Kar Mun’s family was handed a letter from the Sungai Buloh Prison authorities on 22 May, informing them that Yong Kar Mun’s death sentence will be implemented imminently and that they should pay their last visit on the following day. Only then they learned that the execution would have been carried out less than 24 hours later. No further information has been made available on the other case.
“By giving incredibly limited notice of the scheduled executions, the authorities are also preventing those affected to seek further reviews of the cases. Even more so when lives are at stake, transparency is an essential safeguard. Why are they hiding?” Shamini Darshni Kaliemuthu said.
“The government has repeatedly promised legislative reforms on the death penalty, yet no drafts have been shared and more lives have been taken by the gallows. If Malaysia aspires to join the Human Rights Council, it should demonstrate its commitment to human rights by ending executions and abolishing the death penalty. The time for action is now,” Shamini Darshni Kaliemuthu said.
Background
Yong Kar Mun was convicted and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty on 5 March 2009 by the Shah Alam High Court, under Section 3 of the Firearms (Increased Penalties) Act, 1971. While a man involved in the robbery was subsequently killed in a police chase, there were no casualties resulting directly from the offence. The imposition of the mandatory death penalty is prohibited under international law, which also states that in countries where it has not yet been abolished, the imposition of the death penalty must be restricted to “the most serious crimes”, meaning intentional killing.
International law and standards require countries which have not yet abolished the death penalty to make publicly available information on their use of the death penalty, as well as ensure that prisoners under sentence of death and their families are given reasonable advance notice of the scheduled date and time of the executions. The laws and prison regulations of Malaysia, however, do not establish procedures for the notification of the implementation of death sentences and the families of death row prisoners are usually provided with only a few days’ notice.
Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases without exception regardless of the nature or circumstances of the crime, the guilt, innocence or other characteristics of the individual, or the method used by the state to carry out the execution. As of today, 141 countries have abolished the death penalty in law or practice; in the Asia Pacific region, 19 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes and a further eight are abolitionist in practice. Mongolia is poised to give effect to its new Criminal Code abolishing this punishment in July 2017.
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Gwen LeeCampaigner
*****
24 May 2017
Malaysia:
Call for reforms renewed after shameful secretive executions
Following
the secretive
execution of two men earlier today Amnesty International renewed its
calls to the Malaysian government to immediately establish a moratorium
on all
executions and urgently reform the country’s laws with a view to
abolishing the
death penalty.
“The secretive way through which the Malaysian authorities have been carrying out executions is plain cruel. In these and previous executions, the authorities have added considerable distress to the prisoners and their families and shown blatant disregard for international law and standards − it is high time this practice stopped,” Amnesty International Malaysia Executive Director Shamini Darshni Kaliemuthu said.
Yong Kar Mun’s family was handed a letter from the Sungai Buloh Prison authorities on 22 May, informing them that Yong Kar Mun’s death sentence will be implemented imminently and that they should pay their last visit on the following day. Only then they learned that the execution would have been carried out less than 24 hours later. No further information has been made available on the other case.
“By giving incredibly limited notice of the scheduled executions, the authorities are also preventing those affected to seek further reviews of the cases. Even more so when lives are at stake, transparency is an essential safeguard. Why are they hiding?” Shamini Darshni Kaliemuthu said.
“The government has repeatedly promised legislative reforms on the death penalty, yet no drafts have been shared and more lives have been taken by the gallows. If Malaysia aspires to join the Human Rights Council, it should demonstrate its commitment to human rights by ending executions and abolishing the death penalty. The time for action is now,” Shamini Darshni Kaliemuthu said.
Background
Yong Kar Mun was convicted and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty on 5 March 2009 by the Shah Alam High Court, under Section 3 of the Firearms (Increased Penalties) Act, 1971. While a man involved in the robbery was subsequently killed in a police chase, there were no casualties resulting directly from the offence. The imposition of the mandatory death penalty is prohibited under international law, which also states that in countries where it has not yet been abolished, the imposition of the death penalty must be restricted to “the most serious crimes”, meaning intentional killing.
International law and standards require countries which have not yet abolished the death penalty to make publicly available information on their use of the death penalty, as well as ensure that prisoners under sentence of death and their families are given reasonable advance notice of the scheduled date and time of the executions. The laws and prison regulations of Malaysia, however, do not establish procedures for the notification of the implementation of death sentences and the families of death row prisoners are usually provided with only a few days’ notice.
Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases without exception regardless of the nature or circumstances of the crime, the guilt, innocence or other characteristics of the individual, or the method used by the state to carry out the execution. As of today, 141 countries have abolished the death penalty in law or practice; in the Asia Pacific region, 19 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes and a further eight are abolitionist in practice. Mongolia is poised to give effect to its new Criminal Code abolishing this punishment in July 2017.
Gwen LeeCampaigner
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