Monday, October 29, 2018

Singapore should abolish death penalty: Madpet(NST)

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Malaysian Prabu, One of Possible 4, Executed By Singapore Disappointingly This Week - Emulate Malaysia, Abolish Death Penalty?

Singapore should abolish death penalty: Madpet

Prabu Pathmanathan was executed in Singapore in the early hours of Oct 26.
 

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture (Madpet) has called on the Singapore government to follow in the footsteps of Malaysia in its efforts to abolish death penalty as Asean countries strive towards making Asean a death penalty free region.

A Madpet activist, Charles Hector, expressed disappointment over Singapore’s execution on 31-year-old Malaysian Prabu Pathmanathan for a drug offence in 2017 this morning, saying that Singapore is one of the four countries in this region still conducting execution.

At dawn today, Prabu was sentenced to death for committing several acts preparatory to and for the purposes of trafficking 227.82g of heroin into the island state on Dec 31, 2014. He was one of a possible four who were executed this week.

Hector said Singapore should immediately follow Malaysia and abolish the death penalty “as we strive forward for a more caring and civilised Asean where there is no more death penalty and torture”.

“Singapore also needs to become a more caring and civilized nation, and do away with this archaic ‘death penalty’ like Malaysia, which has already made the decision to totally abolish the death penalty and the bill is in the process of being passed.

“It is believed that there may have already been about eight executions to date and Madpet hopes that Singapore would impose a moratorium on executions for the time being,” he said.

He added that Singapore Prison Service 2017 annual report showed eight people were executed in 2017, up from four in 2016, however, the actual statistics for 2018 cannot be confirmed, as Singapore continuous to be ‘secretive’ with such data.

The Malaysian government also needs to immediately identify Malaysians on death row at risk of being executed in Singapore prisons and take the necessary steps to help them before it’s too late. This is a priority, as knowledge about impending executions only comes to light at the eleventh hour and that, too, in only certain cases. - New Straits Times, 26/10/2018


A hangman's noose

Malaysian Prabu, one of possible 4, executed by Singapore disappointingly this week

Singapore should follow Malaysia in Abolishing Death Penalty as we strive for a Death Penalty free ASEAN Region.

by Charles Hector, for and on behalf of MADPET(Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture)
MADPET(Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture) is very disappointed that Singapore, which is just one of 4 countries, still conducting execution for drug offences in 2017, has on 26/10/2018 went and hanged 31 year old Malaysian, Prabu Pathmanathan.

Prabu was sentenced to death for committing several acts preparatory to and for the purposes of trafficking 227.82g of diamorphine or heroin into the island state on Dec 31, 2014.(Malaysiakini, 26/10/2018).

According to The Online Citizen(TOC) report, Prabu is just one of a possible 4 persons who were executed this week. TOC reported that ‘Ali Bin Mohamad Bahashwan was executed alongside his co-accused Selamat Bin Paki on Wednesday afternoon (24 October 2018)…. Irwan Ali, a Singaporean, is the other inmate who is set to be executed this Friday…’(TOC, 26/10/2018)

The Singapore Prison Service 2017 annual report showed eight people were executed in 2017, up from four in 2016. Actual statistics of executions carried out in 2018 cannot be confirmed, as Singapore continuous be ‘secretive’ and not transparent with such data. It is believed that there may have already been about 8 executions to date in 2018.



Many a time in Singapore, one becomes aware of upcoming executions, only when immediate family is informed days before, take the trouble to inform anti-death penalty advocates and groups.
The death sentence is provided for drug-related crimes in about 15 countries, but according to Amnesty International only four countries recorded drug offence executions in 2017 – Singapore, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and China. (South China Morning Post/SCMP, 26/10/2018)

In reality, the majority of those executed for drug trafficking will not be “kingpins” but are just low-level offenders.

Many may have been driven to crime by reasons of poverty, which really highlights a failure of governments in ensuring the wellbeing and livelihood of its people.  Singapore, Malaysia and other States must really look into the link of poverty to crime, and maybe the solution to crime reduction a maybe a caring government policy that will ensure that no one will ever need to resort to crime out of desperation for the wellbeing of themselves and their families.

Singapore also needs to strive to become a more caring and civilized nation, and do away with this archaic ‘death penalty’ just like neighbouring Malaysia, who has already made the decision to totally abolish the death penalty. In Malaysia, the necessary Bills will be tabled at this current Parliamentary Session, that will give effect to the Cabinet decision to abolish the Death Penalty.

MADPET calls on Singapore to follow neighbouring Malaysia and abolish the death penalty, as we strive forward for a more caring and civilized ASEAN where there is no more Death Penalty and Torture.

MADPET also calls on Malaysia to immediately identify Malaysians on death row at risk of being executed in Singapore prisons, and proactively act now to save them from being executed by Singapore. This is a priority, as knowledge about impending executions only come to light at the eleventh hour, and that too in only certain cases.

MADPET further calls on Singapore to impose a moratorium on executions, and abolish the death penalty’ - The Online Citizen, 25/10/2018

Saturday, October 27, 2018

Malaysian Prabu, One of Possible 4, Executed By Singapore Disappointingly This Week - Emulate Malaysia, Abolish Death Penalty?

Media Statement – 26/10/2018

Malaysian Prabu, One of Possible 4, Executed By Singapore Disappointingly This Week


Singapore should follow Malaysia in Abolishing Death Penalty as we strive for a Death Penalty free ASEAN Region.


MADPET(Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture) is very disappointed that Singapore, which is just one of 4 countries, still conducting execution for drug offences in 2017, has on 26/10/2018 went and hanged 31 year old Malaysian, Prabu Pathmanathan. 


Prabu was sentenced to death for committing several acts preparatory to and for the purposes of trafficking 227.82g of diamorphine or heroin into the island state on Dec 31, 2014.(Malaysiakini, 26/10/2018).


According to The Online Citizen(TOC) report, Prabu is just one of a possible 4 persons who were executed this week. TOC reported that ‘Ali Bin Mohamad Bahashwan was executed alongside his co-accused Selamat Bin Paki on Wednesday afternoon (24 October 2018)…. Irwan Ali, a Singaporean, is the other inmate who is set to be executed this Friday…’(TOC, 26/10/2018)


The Singapore Prison Service 2017 annual report showed eight people were executed in 2017, up from four in 2016. Actual statistics of executions carried out in 2018 cannot be confirmed, as Singapore continuous be ‘secretive’ and not transparent with such data. It is believed that there may have already been about 8 executions to date in 2018.


Many a time in Singapore, one becomes aware of upcoming executions, only when immediate family is informed days before, take the trouble to inform anti-death penalty advocates and groups.


The death sentence is provided for drug-related crimes in about 15 countries, but according to Amnesty International only four countries recorded drug offence executions in 2017 – Singapore, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and China.(South China Morning Post/SCMP, 26/10/2018)
 

In reality, the majority of those executed for drug trafficking will not be “kingpins” but are just low-level offenders. 


Many may have been driven to crime by reasons of poverty, which really highlights a failure of governments in ensuring the wellbeing and livelihood of its people.  Singapore, Malaysia and other States must really look into the link of poverty to crime, and maybe the solution to crime reduction a maybe a caring government policy that will ensure that no one will ever needs to resort to crime out of desperation for the wellbeing of themselves and their families.


Singapore also need to strive to become a more caring and civilized nation, and do away with this archaic ‘death penalty’ just like neighbouring Malaysia, who has already made the decision to totally abolish the death penalty. In Malaysia, the necessary Bills will be tabled at this current Parliamentary Session, that  will give effect to the Cabinet decision to abolish the Death Penalty.


MADPET calls on Singapore to follow neighbouring Malaysia and abolish the death penalty, as we strive forward for a more caring and civilized ASEAN where there is no more Death Penalty and Torture.


MADPET also calls on Malaysia to immediately identify Malaysians on death row at risk of being executed in Singapore prisons, and proactively act now to save them from being executed by Singapore. This is a priority, as knowledge about impending executions only come to light at the eleventh hour, and that too in only certain cases. 


MADPET further calls on Singapore to impose a moratorium on executions, and abolish the death penalty’



Charles Hector

For and on behalf of MADPET(Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture)




High contrast image of a hangman's noose from Shutterstock.com

4 executions set to take place within a span of 48 hours in Singapore — including one on Wednesday morning.

Update (1.01pm on 26 October 2018) - TOC understands that the total number of executions this week stands at 4 and not 3, as reported earlier. It has come to our attention that Ali Bin Mohamad Bahashwan was executed alongside his co-accused Selamat Bin Paki on Wednesday afternoon (24 October 2018). As a result of the lack of official data and statistics regarding executions, we had to take some time to verify and confirm this information before publishing this update. Prabu and Irwan were executed earlier today at 6am. Full story here.

While the newly elected Pakatan Harapan Government prepares to abolish the death penalty and ramps up its efforts to save the lives of Malaysians who are on death row abroad, their counterparts across the causeway seem to be hellbent on what can only be described as an unprecedented and vicious rampage.

Traditionally, executions in Singapore only take place at dawn on Friday. The only exception in recent history is the case of Kho Jabing who was originally set to be executed on Friday morning but was hung on Friday afternoon instead owing to an eleventh-hour appeal which was heard dismissed on the morning of his execution. Following Jabing's execution, the time between an inmate's execution and the time an inmate's family will be notified of the execution decreased from two weeks to just one week.

This week, Singapore is set to execute no less than four inmates in a span of just 48 hours. Earlier today (24 October 2018), Selamat Bin Paki and his co-accused Ali Bin Mohamad Bahashwan were executed. This is the first time that an inmate is being executed on a Wednesday. Another two executions are slated for this Friday (26 October 2018). The family of Prabu N Pathmanathan, a  31 year-old Malaysian national who is set to be executed this Friday, was only notified of his execution date on 20 October 2018 according to a report from Malaysiakini. Irwan Ali, a Singaporean, is the other inmate who is set to be executed this Friday.

As executions are not announced publicly, activists and lawyers face a hard time trying to find out the execution dates of inmates. The short time between when the families are notified and when the executions take place also make it hard to arrange for family members, especially those who live overseas and may not be able to afford to travel to Singapore, to spend some time with the inmate during his/her final days and hours. Prior to the case of Jabing, activists and lawyers also operated under the assumption that if one could get an execution stayed, the inmate would not be hung until the following Friday morning - giving more time for the family to prepare for the execution and legal recourse, if any. However, the "rush" to execute Jabing following the dismissal of his criminal motion throws all of those assumptions, which were once widely accepted as conventions surrounding execution by all parties, out of the window. Kirsten Han, an anti-death penalty activist from Singapore, summarises the bleak situation in the following words:
"It is shocking to hear about a hanging taking place on a Wednesday, departing from years of precedent where executions took place at 6am on Fridays. Although it’s awful to hang people on any day of the week, this move away from the prison’s usual practice means that the little that we know about capital punishment in Singapore might no longer be true, making the death penalty regime even more opaque and unaccountable to the public than before.

We have also noticed that the time between the rejection of a clemency appeal and the scheduling of an execution has been reduced, which means families also have less time to mentally and emotionally prepare themselves." - Kirsten Han, Second Chances
In addition to the lack of rigidity surrounding the conventions governing the process of execution, the Singapore Prisons Services and the Ministry of Home Affairs is not transparent in relation to the total number of executions per year. TOC understands that if the two executions slated for Friday are carried out, it would mean that no less than eight inmates were hung this year. This is an increase from the total number of executions in 2017 (9) and is more than twofold increase from the total number of executions in 2016, which stands at four.

M Ravi, an international human rights lawyer who has been representing clients on death row for almost 15 years now had this to say about the executions this week:
"Though we were tragically unable save Selamat Bin Paki this morning, I hope the government will take immediate steps to impose a moratorium on death penalty by staving off the two impending executions this Friday in line with what Malaysia had recently done towards abolishing the death penalty. Quite rightly, Malaysia has acknowledged that death penalty does not serve as a deterrence. Our leadership needs the courage to recognise this, put aside its ego and do the right thing."
Malaysian Law Minister Liew Vui Keong told reporters in Kuala Lumpur that he received news of Prabu's imminent execution only this morning (24 October 2018) and shared that he intends to pen a letter to the Singapore Government to halt Prabu's execution. He added that he plans to work with the Foreign Ministry on this issue. When asked what would happen if the execution were to be carried out, he replied “That will be a sad thing. I hope they won't.”

Anti-death penalty activists in Singapore will be organising a  candlelight vigil for both Prabu and Irwan tomorrow evening at 7.30pm at Hong Lim Park. More information on the vigil can be found at this link.

TOC will update this article as the story develops. - TOC, 24/10/2018



Friday, October 26, 2018

UPDATE:-Singapore executed Malaysian, Prabu? Disappointing and uncivilized?

The execution is scheduled for Friday(26/10/2018)...Try to stop the hanging... 

Update : Singapore sadly continued and executed


Prabu's final message before execution: Stay away from drugs

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In his final hours behind bars, 31-year-old Malaysian Prabu Pathmanathan, who was executed this morning in Singapore, had a message to share.

A series of images taken during Prabu’s final photoshoot in prison was shared on the Facebook page of Singaporean anti-death penalty advocacy group “We Believe in Second Chances” this afternoon, several hours after his reported hanging for a drug trafficking offence.

Prabu wanted the photos to be shared with the public, as he wanted people to know his story and  "hoped to urge people not to be involved with drugs", the group said in the post.

According to the post, Prabu had conveyed the message to a friend who was the last person to visit him, along with his brother.

On Twitter, Singaporean journalist-activist Kirsten Han said she was informed by Prabu’s friend that the photographs were taken last night.

“From what I know, the prison asks the family to buy/bring the inmate civilian clothes, then they do a photoshoot at some point in the week before execution.

“The photos are then given to the family,” said Han.

The images showed Prabu dressed in a blue T-shirt and white headwrap.

He appeared calm in several photos, while he was captured with a wide smile in others, including one where he held a copy of the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita.

Lawyer N Surendran, who represents Prabu's family, said the execution was in breach of due process.

Surendran, who is also Lawyers for Liberty’s advisor, previously claimed that there were doubts concerning the drug trafficking conviction and noted that the vehicle in which drugs were found was driven by another person, and not Prabu.

Prabu was sentenced to death for committing several acts preparatory to and for the purposes of trafficking 227.82g of diamorphine or heroin into the island state on Dec 31, 2014. - Malaysiakini, 26/10/2018


Singapore really must stop executing people and move towards abolition of the death penalty just like neighboring Malaysia.

Singapore need to emulate Malaysia in becoming a more caring, compassionate and civilized nation. 

Really, to hang a young man for possibly his very first offence is really wrong and unjust. Most likely, it may have been caused by poverty...
The family of 31-year-old Malaysian Prabu N Pathmanathan were informed last week he would be executed on Friday..Prabu, 31, had been sentenced to death for committing several acts preparatory to and for the purposes of trafficking in 227.82g of diamorphine or heroin into the island state on Dec 31, 2014.

Law Minister to appeal to S’pore to commute Malaysian’s death sentence

PETALING JAYA: Datuk Liew Vui Keong will write a letter to the Singapore government to urge it to commute the death sentence of a Malaysian man who is scheduled to be executed on Friday (Oct 26).

The Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department said he hoped that Singapore would commute Prabu Pathmanathan’s sentence to life imprisonment.

Prabu, 31, had been sentenced to death for committing several acts preparatory to and for the purposes of trafficking in 227.82g of diamorphine or heroin into the island state on Dec 31, 2014.

“It will be a sad day. I hope they don’t do it,” he told reporters on Wednesday (Oct 24) when asked what would happen if Singapore went ahead with the execution.
Earlier on Wednesday, Lawyers for Liberty advisor N. Surendran urged Putrajaya to make “urgent and strenuous” efforts to save Prabu from the gallows.
Surendran said Prabu’s family had been informed that the execution would be held at Changi Prison on Friday for alleged drug trafficking.

“The family was only informed of the Friday hanging on Oct 20 via a letter from the Singapore Prison Services, which is less than one week’s notice.

“In the same chilling letter, the family was asked to make the ‘necessary funeral arrangements’,” Surendran said.

According to Surendran, there were doubts surrounding Prabu’s conviction, adding that the drugs was found in a vehicle driven by another person, and not Prabu.

He also claimed that the confessions obtained from Prabu by the prosecution for the trial were made under duress.

The Singapore Anti Death Penalty Campaign also called for the Singapore government to halt the execution of Prabu.

“Not only is it irreversible once an execution takes place, it also creates another set of victims – the loved ones of the executed,” it said in a statement.

On Oct 15, Liew had announced that the Malaysian government would go ahead with plans to completely abolish the death penalty in this country. – Star, 24/10/2018

Human rights groups urge Singapore to halt imminent executions

City-state expected to execute two men, including a Malaysian, following convictions for drug offences.






View through a vehicle window shows cell blocks inside Singapore's Changi Prison [Vivek Prakash/Reuters]
View through a vehicle window shows cell blocks inside Singapore’s Changi Prison [Vivek Prakash/Reuters]
Singapore is being urged to halt the planned execution on Friday of two men convicted of drug-related offences amid reports four people were hanged in the city-state in the past three weeks.

The family of 31-year-old Malaysian Prabu N Pathmanathan were informed last week he would be executed on Friday, human rights groups said. Another man is also scheduled to hang but has not been named.

“Singapore authorities must immediately halt plans to kill these men and put a stop to this recent wave of callous executions,” Rachel Chhoa-Howard, Amnesty International’s Singapore researcher, said in a statement.

Singapore reportedly hanged a man on Wednesday and three others on October 5 also for drug-related offences, the group said.

Lawyers for Liberty, a Kuala Lumpur-based legal firm that specialises in human rights cases, urged the Malaysian government to intervene to stop the hanging.

Executions are usually carried out at dawn at Changi Prison.

“The death penalty is cruel and inhuman and particularly so when used in drugs cases, which results in the execution of drug mules from poor socio-economic backgrounds,” the firm’s N Surendran said in a statement.

‘Barbarity’

Admitting time was “running out”, Surendran and Prabu’s mother and sister delivered an appeal for clemency to Singapore’s president, Halimah Yacob, on Thursday.

“Malaysia has recognised the barbarity of the death penalty and has recently announced its total abolition. Having taken that position, the Malaysian government must do everything possible to save citizens abroad who are facing execution,” it said.

Malaysia’s government that was elected in May has suspended executions and announced its intention to abolish the death penalty for all crimes.

De facto law minister Liew Vui Keong said he would write to the Singapore government to request Prabu’s death sentence be commuted to life imprisonment, local media reported on Thursday. Prabu was sentenced to death in relation to the trafficking of 228kg of heroin into the island state at the end of 2014.

“It is time for Singapore to re-establish its moratorium on the death penalty and follow the government of Malaysia’s example,” Amnesty’s Chhoa-Howard said.

Amnesty said it believes Singapore has carried out six executions this year, all in relation to drug-offences. It said there were eight executions last year. Singapore does not publicly disclose information about its use of the death penalty.

Capital punishment was imposed or implemented for drug-related offences in 15 countries last year, but executions for such crimes were recorded in only four – China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Singapore.
One-hundred and six countries across the world have abolished the death penalty for all crimes. – Al Jazeera, 25/10/2018

Monday, October 22, 2018

8 hours or 12 hours per day should workers in Malaysia work? Help workers PH government.

How many HOURS should a Worker Work in Malaysia? 8 hours a day, 48 hours a week - that is the right that workers fought for...and, we have it in Malaysia.

WHAT IS JUST? Well, we the people of Malaysia must decide...what is fair? OR do we just do not care about the many POOR workers in Malaysia - they should work 12 or even 24 hours - I do not care. Well, this is Malaysia, and we care and so we decide that all workers in Malaysia should be treated humanely and justly....




And after working 8 hours a day(or 48 hours a week), workers should be able to earn sufficient WAGES to be able to provide for a decent livelihood for themselves and their family(including dependents)

THAT MUST BE TARGET OF THE GOVERNMENT - AND ALL OF US IN MALAYSIA.

REALITY TODAY is that many workers are 'forced' to work OVERTIME by employers. Of course, legally, an employer must get the 'CONSENT' of workers before they can compell workers to do overtime...but, if you talk to many workers, they will tell you that they have 'NO CHOICE' in the matter...if they do not agree to do overtime, they may be prejudiced in terms of promotion, wage increments and/or even bonusses.

For, workers on short-term(or fixed-term contract) usually not more than 1 year, it is even a greater risk to refuse for many of such workers HOPE that they will be given an extension of their contract, or better still become a regular worker...Hence, these 'precarious' workers are easily forced to work OVERTIME.

Some employers, 'force' workers to sign agreements to do overtime when requested - this is done way in advance so again 'NO CHOICE' do reject overtime.

OVERTIME - was really for extra-ordinary situation that suddenly needs the company to operate beyond hours to complete an urgent order/work request ...but today, OVERTIME has become the norm...end result that right to just work 8 hours a day(48 hours a week) is simply ignored. 

HENCE, to protect abuse of workers, the government has a LAW that sets the maximum hours of overtime per month that a worker can be made to work....and under the former UMNO-BN rule, that overtime limit was 104 hours a month.
 
This means that employers can make a worker, according to law, to work an additional 4 hours every working day....meaning that a worker may end up working 12 hours a day...

OVERTIME LIMIT - Pakatan Harapan government must speedily amend this law, and reduce the limit to 48-60 hours a month. 

The law must also stipulate SITUATIONS when workers can be asked to work OVERTIME - and the requirement of actual Consent - and that workers not be discriminated for refusing to work overtime.

# It was sad to hear that in some factories, even to take sick leave, employer requires the worker to find a replacement first...same also with annual leave. The HR Minister need to seriously look into these...Ministry enforcement officers need to be more active in monitoring that worker rights are not being violated (Today, cause the precarious situation of workers, many workers will be to fearful to even complain...what more when they do not have REGULAR employment just a year's contract

UMNO-BN politicians for low wages was simply to work OVERTIME or take on a 2nd job...Pakatan Harapan need to be different and ensure the 8 hours per day is strictly complied...

Other countries are reducing the NUMBER of HOURS of work - to 40 hours per week...

WAGES is a key concern here - workers need sufficient income to live a decent life for themselves and their families.

Thus, the PH government MUST:-
- Ensure workers get needed time of for rest and leisure > and not just ending up working and working for more than 8 hours. [Remember, now if we tale time to go to work, time to return home, time actually at workplace(not counting lunch breaks/breaks), it already comes to about 10 hours or more - eating up into rest and leisure times). Well being of marriage and children is also a factor...

- More importantly is EMPLOYMENT SECURITY - this means workers should generally be employed as REGULAR employees...no more short-term contracts. The worker, after all is evaluated by the employer during probation(which need be not more than 3 months), and then there is the AGREEMENT making them REGULAR employees - of course, one may end this relationship if one commits a serious misconduct, if the company has not more work for the worker(Retrenchment/Lay-Off). Regular employment also ensures increase in basic rights like paid annual leave entitlement, sick leave, maternity leave). What PH government can do is,by law, prohibit the usage of short-term/fixed-term employment contracts, insist all workers enjoy REGULAR employment especially for those earning RM3,000(or RM5,000) or less. Regular employment also ensures wage rise annually...


 

Terrorist - Who does Malaysia consider 'Terrorists', Terrorist Ideology/Books? Siti Noor Aishah Atam? What happend to 8 arrested?

TERRORIST  - Who does Malaysia consider terrorist? Does Malaysia consider all that the US says are 'terrorist' also terrorist as far as Malaysia is concerned? Does Malaysia consider HAMAS(the Palestinian political party that won in Gaza in their elections) or the Muslim Brotherhood(that once successfully won the Egyptian Elections) terrorists? 

During the time Malaysia was colonized by the British, during the cold war between those countries with the capitalist ideology and those countries with the socialist/communist ideology, the British considered those that resorted to arms struggle for the independence of Malaya, being mainly those linked to the Communist Party of Malaya, the British called them 'communist terrorist' - something which UMN0-led government post-independence continued to advocate. 

Today, Malaysia recognizes many communist states, and have diplomatic and trade relationships. Does Malaysia still consider those who advocate the 'communist' ideology terrorists?

US and many nations have simply identified those that are not friendly to their interests as enemies - even 'terrorist' regimes/groups. The British colonialist also did the same to those that had a tendency to jeopardise their citizen's economic interest, and in Malaya, that included those who fought for independence using armed struggle, including also others who did not resort to 'armed struggle' but were vocal and active including trade unions and groups. Laws were enacted to weaken and control such groups including societies, trade unions, etc...

Recently,  those who were promoting 'ideology of Salafi Jihadism' were arrested under Malaysia's anti-terrorist laws.

 

Siti Noor Aishah Atam was arrested for possession of books, not even banned in Malaysia, for a terror offence.

Siti Noor Aishah - POCA,POTA..dimansuhkan - Resolusi Badan Peguam

KLSCAH CRC makes it 37 groups calling for the release of Siti Noor Aishah Atam and all victims of Detention Without Trial laws?

 Release Siti Noor Aishah Atam immediately(15 Groups) - Malaysiakini

Flawed Section 130JB Penal Code must not be used pending repeal Release Siti Noor Aishah Atam in prison for possession of unbanned books? (15 Groups)

The first High Court Judgment which acquitted her at the close of the prosecution's case(which is in Malay) could be found here - Siti Noor Aishah Atam - Alasan Penghakiman Mahkamah Tinggi - Mahkamah Bebas Polis Tangkap Lagi Guna POCA??

The 2nd High Court judgment, after the Court of Appeal overturned the High Court judgment, which led to her conviction can be found in this post - Siti Noor Aishah Atam - dipenjarakan 5 tahun memiliki buku yang tidak diharamkan kerajaan. Kini di Mahkamah Rayuan?

Siti Noor Aishah Atam - Release her, and Repeal section 130JB Penal Code?

 

Malaysia has enacted many 'terror laws' found in the Penal Code and other laws. The question is what exactly are the groups that Malaysia identifies as being 'terrorist groups' ...does it also include some Islamic thoughts and ideologies.

What books are Malaysians supposed to avoid owning, buying, reading ...for if they do, they may be arrested and charged for some 'terror' offence? ...just like Siti Noor Aishah Atam.

Is curiosity and a quest for knowledge an offence in Malaysia? Many may read..many may discuss...but many too will reject or simply not act on what it advocates. Many may think about even killing someone ...but may not act upon it and even reject the idea of others doing so? 

Even in the Siti Noor Aishah Atam's case, foreign scholars were called in as witness to demonstrate that the books were linked to 'terror' groups, ...

Given that Malaysia has many 'terror-linked' offences in the law, the Malaysian government need to to CLEARLY STATE what are these 'terrorist groups'...and what are the 'books,material..' that Malaysians should not be reading....This is long overdue.

What happened to the 8 persons arrested over 'suspected terror links'? Have they been charged in court? Will they be accorded a right to a FAIR TRIAL?

Or have they been simply been placed under some draconian Detention Without Trial law like the POCA or the POTA, which Pakatan Harapan committed to abolish?

Remember, DETENTION WITHOUT TRIAL LAWS - allows for indefinite detention/restrictions with no RIGHT FOR THE VICTIMS to even challenge the reasons they were made victims of this law. There is NO JUDICIAL REVIEW for the reasons POCA, POTA and Detention Without Trial laws have been used against them. Parliament removed the Judiciary's right and function to review the reasons why people have been subjected to such Detention Without Trial Laws..

No media report to tell us what has happened to these 8...and maybe the many other victims of POCA, POTA, etc ...

HOW MANY ARE CURRENTLY BEING DETAINED UNDER POCA? What are the alleged 'reasons' for which they are being detained and/or restricted? Remember POCA can be used for a wide range of reasons - terrorists, smugglers, human traffickers, drug trafficking, committing a penal code offence with one or more, gangs/triads, etc..We need details. Charge and try them all...*the answers obtained by MP Maria Chin was vague and did not contain needed details

HOW MANY ARE CURRENTLY BEING DETAINED UNDER POTA? *the answers obtained by MP Maria Chin was vague and did not contain needed details

HOW MANY ARE CURRENTLY BEING DETAINDED UNDER Dangerous Drugs(Special Preventive Measures) Act?

WHAT ARE THE GROUPS THAT MALAYSIA CONSIDERS TERRORIST GROUPS?[This information must be publicly available in the Police,etc websites]

WHAT ARE THE TERROR-LINKED BOOKS, MATERIAL THAT WE IN MALAYSIA SHOULD NOT READ OR HAVE IN POSSESSION THAT WILL CAUSE US TO BE ARRESTED?[This information must be publicly available in the Police,etc websites]

ARE CERTAIN ISLAMIC SECTS AND IDEOLOGIES ALSO CONSIDERED 'TERRORIST' RELATED AND BANNED? 

PARLIAMENT STILL DOES NOT PUBLICLY DISCLOSE WRITTEN QUESTIONS AND WRITTEN ANSWERS PROVIDED TO PARLIAMENTARIANS - So public are kept in the dark, unless particular MP/Senator circulates it to media, etc but very few do, so questions answered by government also not known - and we tend to ask again and again for we know not government has answered. Relevant Ministry websites should also carry these questions and answers -TRANSPARENCY

See related post:-

Bar Resolution for the Repeal of the Prevention of Crime Act 1959 and All Detention Without Trial Laws, and Provision for Compensation for Deprivation of Liberty of the Innocent 

Eight arrested in Malaysia over suspected terror links



Eight men with suspected terrorist links have been rounded up and detained in Malaysia for suspected activities that threatened national security.
Eight men with suspected terrorist links have been rounded up and detained in Malaysia for suspected activities that threatened national security.PHOTO: ROYAL MALAYSIA POLICE
Malaysian police have arrested eight men for suspected terror links and extremist activities that threaten national security.

The suspects - seven foreigners and a Malaysian - were detained by the Bukit Aman Special Branch Counter Terrorism Division in Kuala Lumpur, Perlis and Johor on Sept 24, national police chief Mohamad Fuzi Harun said in a statement yesterday.

Tan Sri Mohamad Fuzi said the suspects were involved with an Islamic learning centre in Perlis believed to be promoting extremist teachings. "The arrests were made following intelligence obtained by police that a terrorist group based on the ideology of Salafi Jihadism in Yemen was planning to set up an Islamic learning centre in South-east Asia to spread the teachings of Salafi Jihadism," he added.

Early investigations by police and shared intelligence from foreign agencies revealed that the centre's foreign teachers and students are linked to a madrasah in Dammaj, Yemen, founded by Syeikh Muqbil bin Hadi Al Wadi'i, a Salafi Jihadism leader and an extremist.

The madrasah follows Salafi Jihadism teachings that allow the killing of non-Muslims and Muslims who do not prescribe to their philosophy. They also label the democratic system as un-Islamic.

It was learnt from the arrested suspects that they believe in extremist teachings, such as banning men and women from wearing trousers. Work is also not allowed as this results in men and women being together, and Muslims who do so are labelled apostates.

The first arrests in Perlis involved five Europeans and a sixth suspect from the American continent, all aged between 24 and 38 years old and students at the Perlis centre.

One of those arrested was related to a citizen of a neighbouring country linked to the Syeikh Muqbil madrasah and who has also undergone weapons training.

Intelligence from a foreign agency revealed that all six are linked to the Daesh terrorist group, also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), or other extremist organisations.

The seventh arrest, which occurred in Kuala Lumpur, involved a 33-year-old suspect from the Middle East who was a teacher at the Perlis centre. The suspect was conducting classes to spread Salafi Jihadism teachings in Klang Valley.

Police in Johor arrested a 32-year-old Malaysian who was a student at the Perlis centre in 2014.

"The arrests... are to curb the spread of Salafi Jihadism ideology, which is the basis for violent acts by groups such as the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, Jemaah Islamiah (JI), Abu Sayyaf, Boko Haram and others," said Mr Mohamad Fuzi.

"This is not the first time that foreign Salafi Jihadism elements are using Malaysia as a base to spread their ideology and recruit new members."

He added that JI leaders Abdullah Sungkar and Abu Bakar Bashir infiltrated Malaysia in 1985 for the same purpose.

Malaysia has arrested around 400 people since 2013 for suspected links to terrorism. In 2016, police arrested 115 individuals in the country with links to terrorist groups. There were 82 arrests in 2015, 59 in 2014 and four in 2013.- Straits Times, 7/10/2018


Cops bust terror cult

KUALA LUMPUR: Eight men suspected of terrorist links with groups in Yemen had been planning to spread Salafi Jihadi extremist teachings in the region by making Malaysia its central hub.

Under the guise of an Islamic Learning Centre in Perlis, the cult aims to recruit new members and promote their teachings, which permit the killing of non-Muslims and even Muslims who do not follow their ways.

Sources said the students were required not to shave their beards while wearing trousers was a strict violation.

“One of the students was forced to study by himself because he insisted on wearing jeans.
“The rest of the group would not even acknowledge the student or even wish him ‘salam’,” a source told The Star.
“They are required to wake up early in the morning and surrender themselves fully to the cult’s doctrine.

“To them, life outside the cult is deemed secular which goes against their twisted version of Islam,” said the source, adding that regular work was not permitted as it would involve mingling between men and women.

Bukit Aman’s Counter Terrorism Division arrested the suspects in Perlis, Kuala Lumpur and Johor on Sept 24.

“We believe they are involved with the Islamic Learning centre in Perlis. Some of them are students while others are ex-students and former teachers,” said Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Mohamad Fuzi Harun.

The arrests, he said, were made following shared intelligence between Bukit Aman and foreign intelligence agencies that a Yemen-based terrorist group had been planning to set up a learning centre in South-East Asia.

“Initial investigations showed that the suspects arrested have connections with a madrasah in Dammaj, Yemen, set up by Sheikh Muqbil Hadi Al Wadi’i, a Salafi Jihadi scholar.

“The madrasah follows the Salafi Jihadi teachings that permit the killing of non-Muslims and even Muslims who don’t follow their ways,” he said in a statement here yesterday.

The teachings, which also labelled the democratic system as “toghut” (un-Islamic), formed the basis of most terrorist groups, including the Islamic State (IS), al-Qaeda, Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), Boko Haram and the Abu Sayyaf Group, said Mohamad Fuzi.

“This is not the first time that terror elements have tried to spread Salafi Jihadi teachings in the country. JI leaders Abdullah Sungkar and Abu Bakar Basyir set up schools in Negri Sembilan and Johor in 1985 but we managed to put a stop to it,” he said.

Mohamad Fuzi said the first series of arrests in Perlis involved five Europeans and another from the American continent, aged between 24 and 38.

“We believe all six have connections with IS as well as other terror cells in the region. They are all students of the centre in Perlis,” he said.

One of those arrested was the brother-in-law of a militant from a neighbouring country, who had undergone weapons training, he added.

The seventh suspect arrested was a 33-year-old Middle Eastern man in Kuala Lumpur, who was a teacher at the centre, said Mohamad Fuzi.

“We believe he has been spreading Salafi Jihadi teachings in the Klang Valley under the guise of conducting Islamic classes,” he said.

The last arrest was that of a 32-year-old Malaysian man in Muar, Johor, who was a student at the centre in 2014.

The suspects were arrested under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma). A total of 433 militants have been detained since February 2013. - Star, 7/10/2018

Hukuman Mati Undang-undang sekular(bukan Islam) dimansuhkan - PAS jangan melenggahkan pemansuhan?

Kabinet Malaysia telah memutuskan menghapuskan hukuman mati...ini adalah satu tindakan yang wajar dan adil. Ini keputusan rakyat/kerajaan - bukan keputusan beberapa keluarga mangsa kes bunuh saja. Yang membunuh dalam undang-undang Islam ada pilihan tidak dihukum mati - prinsip 'Diyat'(pampasan). 

Hakikat kini adalah undang-undang yang mengenakan hukuman mati di Malaysia adalah kesalahan dalam undang-undang biasa atau 'sekular' - bukan undang-undang Islam atau Syariah.

Undang-undang Islam, bila  mengenakan hukuman Islam, bila ada peruntukan untuk hukuman mati, ia juga harus melalui Kaedah Pentadbiran Jenayah Islam, dan juga memastikan keperluan keterangan Islam terpakai. 

Di setengah bidangkuasa, bila ada undang-undang Islam memperuntukkan hukuman mati tetapi tidah ada Kaedah Pentadbiran Islam(Islamic Criminal Procedure Code/CPC) atau undang-undang Keterangan Islam, undang-undang ini tidak digunakan. Sebagai contoh, di negara Brunei.

The first phase of the Syariah Penal Code was enforced on May 1, 2014. His Majesty added that before the second phase can be implemented, the country has to wait for another 12 months after the CPC can be gazetted. "Now two years have gone by, but the CPC is not gazetted yet and the vetting process has not even started. This means that after it is gazetted in 2016, we have to wait another year, until 2017 before the second phase can be implemented.”
Justeru, tindakan menghapuskan hukuman mati dari undang-undang 'sekular' di Malaysia adalah betul - tidak sama sekali bercanggah dengan Islam atau agama lain.

Untuk pengetahuan am, di dalam undang-undang Islam yang mengenakan hukuman mati untuk kes bunuh(murder), ia juga memberi pilihan yang dikenali sebagai 'Diyat' - di mana ini jika keluarga mangsa pembunuhan sedia menerima pampasan...[Mungkin, adil bagi yang kaya tetapi yang miskin mungkin tak mampu membuat pembayaran pampasan]..

Diya (Arabic: دية‎; plural diyāt, Arabic: ديات‎) in Islamic law, is the financial compensation paid to the victim or heirs of a victim in the cases of murder, bodily harm or property damage. It is an alternative punishment to qisas (equal retaliation). In Arabic, the word means both blood money and ransom, and it is spelled sometimes as diyah or diyeh.It only applies when victim's family want to compromise with the guilty party; otherwise qisas applies.
Islam secara jelas hanya menetapkan hukuman mati untuk kesalahan khusus. Tak ada hukuman mati untuk kes pengedaran dadah, dsb. 

Justeru, bila parti politik Islam saperti PAS tidak membantah, saya memahami pendirian ini. Kini bila Presiden PAS tiba-tiba meminta agar keputusan memansuhkan hukuman mati dikaji semula, saya cukup hairan..

Hadi Awang juga nampaknya ada silap - beliau nampaknya bercakap tentang 'hukuman mati mandatori' saja kerana keputusan kabinet kini adalah pemansuhan keseluruhan 'hukuman mati' dalam undang-undang sekular/biasa di Malaysia. 

Hukuman Mati Mandatori - ini adalah SATU-satu hukuman yang ditetapkan oleh Parlimen yang harus dikenakan apabila seseorang didapati bersalah melakukan jenayah tersebut. Ini bererti Hakim, setelah bicara dan dapati sidituduh bersalah dirampas kuasa mengenakan hukuman wajar/adil berasaskan fakta, halkeadaan dan perkara lain dalam kes tersebut. Ini sebenarnya juga TIDAK demokratik kerana Parlimen(legislature) sepatutnya tidak menceroboh apa yang sepatutnya fungsi badan kehakiman. Prinsip 'Separation of Powers' dicabul.

ANTARA SEBAB MENGAPA HUKUMAN MATI HARUS  DIMANSUHKAN

- Risiko seseorang yang tidak bersalah akan dibunuh oleh Kerajaan
Hakim juga manusia dan boleh melakukan kesilapan. Polis boleh juga silap atau juga menyembunyikan fakta/maklumat dari Mahkamah termasuk juga membekalkan Mahkamah dengan maklumat/keterangan palsu. Pendakwaan dan juga peguam sidituduh mungkin melakukan kesilapan. Peguam sidituduh pun boleh melakukan silap - jangan lupa yang miskin tidak ada peguam sendiri...hanya peguam lantikan Mahkamah.

Berapa kali sudah Mahkamah Rayuan/Mahkamah Persekutuan membenarkan rayuan dan mengatakan Mahkamah Tinggi silap? Kemungkinan Mahkamah tertinggi pun silap adalah juga besar? Adakah kita sedia membunuh seseorang yang didapati bersalah kerana ada kemungkinan bahawa dia yang sudah dibunuh mungkin seorang yang sebenarnya tidak bersalah. Satu kes sedemikian berlaku di Taiwan beberapa tahun yang lepas - kerajaan telah meminta maaf dan juga membayar pampasan TETAPI sedih orang yang kini diketahui tak bersalah sudahpun dibunuh oleh kerajaan. 

Silap kerajaan demokratik adalah silap semua rakyat yang memilih kerajaan tersebut. Justeru, yang melakukan kesalahan menyebabkan kematian seseorang itu adalah kesalahan kita semua...bukan sahaja kerajaan atau Mahkamah. Adakah anda rakyat Malaysia sanggup menanggung kesalahan bunuh seseorang yang mungkin bersalah atau tidak wajar dilupuskan nyawa?

- Jika lakukan satu kesalahan - wajarkah seorang dibunuh? Atau lebih wajarkah dia dihukum dan diberi peluang insaf dan kemungkinan teruskan kehidupan dalam masyarakat? [Jika pimpinan politik 'merampas' wang rakyat - kemiskinan menyebabkan seseorang melakukan jenayah mengakibatkan kematian - siapakah yang bersalah? Siapakah yang harus dihukum mati?]

- Untuk seorang kanak-kanak, adakah lebih baik untuk anak jika bapa, ibu, adik-beradik, ahli keluarga dibunuh digantung ...atau dipenjarakan(iaitu masih hidup)? Ya, hukuman bunuh bukan sahaja melibatkan sidituduh tetapi juga mengakibatkan seluruh keluarga dan kenalan beliau...

- Hukuman Mati adalah hukuman yang 'tua' - kini, ada penjara dan kehidupan dalam penjara adalah sangat teruk dan memedihkan kepada mereka yang dipenjarakan.... Yang bersalah tetap akan dihukum...tetapi tak perlu kita membunuhnya, di gantung sampai mati di Malaysia...[Pembunuh ramai(77 orang) di Norway pun merayu dihukum mati tetapi Mahkamah memerintahkan dipenjarakan ...]

- Hukuman Mati Mandatori atau Hukuman Mati nyata tidak ada kesan mengurangkan insiden jenayah tersebut dalam masyarakat Malaysia. Beberapa tahun dahlu, Menteri sendiri mengakui hakikat ini mengenai kes pengedaran dadah yang terus bertambah. Saya percaya keadaannya sama dengan kes bunuh dan juga kes-kes lain yang kini ada hukuman mati sebagai hukuman jika disabitkan jenayah berkenaan. Kerajaan PH harus mendedahkan bilangan kes bunuh dan jenayah lain - kerajaan UMNO-BN menyembunyikan bilangan hanya kini dedahkan 'kadar jenayah'(bukan bilangan khusus) saperti dulu.

- Ramai yang menyatakan bahawa hukuman mati harus dikekalkan untuk kes serius saperti 'rogol dan bunuh' dan kes bunuh yang teruk. Ini isu prinsip? Tetapi adakah kita pasti seratus peratus bahawa seseorang yang dituduh telah melakukan jenayah tersebut? Adakah dia melakukan jenayah tersebut kerana 'suka' atau kerana diarahkan atau untuk wang kerana kemiskinan - baru ini pun dilapurkan kes bunuh diri kerana kemiskinan? Jika sebab seseorang melakukan adalah kemiskinan, bukankah itu menjadi kesalahan kita semua - kerajaan kerana tak memastikan bahawa semua orang sekeluarga ada cukup untuk hidup dan tak perlu buat salah untuk dapat wang untuk menampung hidup diri dan keluarga?

- Ramai kita terpengaruh dengan TV dan wayang Amerika yang mengalakkan budaya 'balas dendam' - bukan budaya insaf, kemaafan, pemulihan dan peluang kedua? Adakah kita mahu ikut sahaja budaya sedemikian...atau adakah kita akan pegang teguh kepada budaya keprihatinan, kemaafan ...budaya Malaysia? Di dalam rancangan janaan Amerika, kita lihat juga tindakan polis 'memalsukan' keterangan demi memastikan seseorang itu disabitkan - ada juga dipamerkan sebagai 'OK' untuk bunuh sahaja seorang yang dianggap bersalah tanpa dibicarakan? Jangan kita di Malaysia buta-buta sahaja menyerap budaya Amerika sebegini ...Jika anak lakukan kesalahan, kita tak bunuh saja?

- Ada yang mengatakan kekalkan hukuman mati kerana sehingga kini, tak ada kenalan atau ahli keluarga mereka sendiri dihukum gantung ...atau sudah digantung. Sekiranya, ahli keluarga sendiri kena...maka posisi mungkin berbeda? Senang sekali membuat komen kerana fikir kesan perundangan ini akan tidak sama sekali dihadapi oleh diri sendiri atau keluarga....Sama juga pendirian setengah mengenai banyak isu termasuk isu gaji minima, kemiskinan...YA - tapi sebagai seorang ahli komuniti Malaysia, tak kira sama ada

Dahulu bila saya bersama dengan peneroka bandar berjuang menghalang rumah mereka dimusnahkan, komuniti kampung terbabit itu akan bersama berjuang TETAPI kampng setinggan sebelah yang belum lagi menghadapi ugutan rumah diroboh tak keluar menyokong walaupun kemungkinan tak lama mereka pun akan menghadapi isu sama?  Ini merupakan sifat ramai...sifat tidak prihatin kepada ketidakadilan yang menimpa orang lain...

Sama juga dengan isu ISA dan penahanan tanpa bicara, ramai tak ambil berat kerana memikirkan mereka tidak akan sama sekali menjadi mangsa undang-undang tak adil itu ---TETAPI di Malaysia, ramai telah mula mengambil berat dan menentang undang-undang sedemikian dan akhirnya ISA di mansuhkan tetapi sedih masih ada undang-undang tanpa bicara lagi, yang perlu kita berusaha untuk memansuhkan undang-undang tidak adil sedemikian.

Kini isu adalah HUKUMAN MATI - dan amat bangga bila kerajaan BARU kerajaan PH telah memutuskan mahu menghapuskan hukuman ini, yang mengambil nyawa seseorang. Jangan lupa bahawa hukuman penjara lama adalah hukuman yang lebih 'teruk' berbanding dengan hukuman mati. Sakit gigi berterusan adalah lebih teruk bagi mangsa berbanding dengan sakit sekali beberapa hari bila gigi dicabut. Mungkin perbandingan yang tak bagus...???

Bila hukuman sesuatu jenayah adalah hukuman mati - penjenayah mungkin juga akan juga sanggup mengelak dengan membunuh saksi dan sebagainya...kerana tahu jika ditangkap, beliau akan dibunuh oleh kerajaan...

Bila hukuman mati dimansuhkan, kadar jenayah kemungkinan akan turun. Ini adalah apa yang berlaku di Canada, negara-negara Eropah Barat dan banyak negara lain bila hukuman mati dimansuhkan..

The removal of capital punishment from the Canadian Criminal Code in 1976 has not led to an increase in the murder rate in Canada. In fact, Statistics Canada reports that the murder rate has generally been declining since the mid-1970s. In 2009, the national murder rate in Canada was 1.81 homicides per 100,000 population, compared to the mid-1970s when it was around 3.0.

- Adakah orang lain terlibat dalam pembunuhan atau jenayah tersebut, yang masih belum diketahui dan dibawa kepada keadilan? Ini adalah situasi untuk kes pengedaran dadah - sebab yang ditangkap biasanya 'orang delivery' yang menerima bayaran untuk bawa masuk dadah...saja. KES bunuh pun ada yang sama - contohnya kes Altantuya - adakah mereka yang melakukan pembunuhan diarah oleh orang lain? bertindak atas arahan orang lain? Jika kita bunuh sahaja 2 yang ditangkap, pasti yang lain terlepas gitu sahaja? [Jika jenayah itu mengenakan hukuman mati, apa guna yang ditangkap mendedahkan maklumat memastikan semua lain juga ditangkap dan dihadapi muka keadilan? - Jangan lupa bahawa mereka yang dituduh melakukan jenayah yang ada hukuman mati akan 'berdiam diri saja' (kerana ini tindakan bijak - apa guna kata saya bunuh kerana dibayar, kerana ini hanya akan membuktikan kesalahan yang akan menyebabkan hukuman mati? Justeru, tak pelik bila Sirul, selepas habis semua rayuan Mahkamah dan selepas beliau cabut diri lari ke Australia, mendedahkan bahawa ada lain yang terlibat]..

Kes Canny Ong - Ahmad Najib sudah mati digantung. Adakah semua orang yang terlibat telah dikenalk pasti, ditangkap atau dituduh? Adakah Ahmad Najib bersalah atau wajar secara adil digantung mati? Ada banyak keraguan masih wujud mengenai kes pembunuhan tersebut? Lihat rencana di bawah ini - The Truth Related About A.Najib Murder Canny Ong Death – Is It Related To VVIP?
Sep 24, 2016 - PETALING JAYA: After spending 11 years on death row and having exhausted all his appeals, Ahmad Najib Aris (pic) was finally executed for the 2003 murder of Canny Ong.
Yang berpendirian bahawa hukuman mati harus dikekalkan sering merujuk kepada kes pembunuhan teruk, kes rogol dan bunuh, ...TETAPI ini isu prinsip...hukuman mati harus dimansuhkan keseluruhannya...kerana dalam kes paling teruk pun, hukuman perlu tetapi bukan hukuman mati.

Di Norway, sebuah negara di mana hukuman mati telah dimansuhkan, baru ini berlaku insiden di mana seorang telah membunuh ramai orang...Pembunuh itu juga meminta dihukum mati ...


The right-wing fanatic said he doesn't fear death and that militant nationalists in Europe have a lot to learn from al Qaeda, including their methods and glorification of martyrdom. "If I had feared death I would not have dared to carry out this operation," he said, referring to his July 22 attacks — a bombing in downtown Oslo that killed eight people and a shooting massacre at a youth camp outside the Norwegian capital that killed 69.


Insiden ini membuka semula perbincangan sama ada hukuman mati harus kembali TETAPI akhirnya kerajaan Norway dan rakyat bertekad berasas prinsip membuat keputusan tidak mahu kembalikan hukuman mati ini. Malangnya, perkara sama membawa kesan berlainan di India...


Di Malaysia pun kita ada kes LAHAD DATU - dan kita telah hukum mati beberapa orang(tetapi mereka sebenarnya tidak dibuktikan membunuh sesiapa pun - serta 'bos' tak ditangkap dan dihukum)..

MADPET - Commute death sentence on Lahad Datu 9 to life (FMT News)

Nampaknya, ramai pembunuh mahu dibunuh tidak mahu dipenjarakan - tetapi isu hukuman ada perkara yang diputuskan rakyat dan negara,  bukan juga ahli keluarga mangsa dibunuh saja, dan yang paling adil dan wajar, sealiran dengan sifat kemanusian, sifat keprihatinan, harapan seseorang itu insaf, kepentingan kanak-kanak, keadilan, hasrat bertobat dan peluang kedua,...hukuman wajar tak sama sekali hukuman mati...SYABAS KERAJAAN BARU KERAJAAN HARAPAN yang berani menghapuskan Hukuman Mati di Malaysia...

Kerajaan UMNO-BN sudah berdekad-dekad mengkaji isu memansuhkan hukuman mati, tetapi kurang berani bertindak kerana mungkin takut RAKYAT(segulungan) akan tidak suka dan mungkin akan kehilangan sokongan semasa pilihanraya akan datang. 

Tentangan perubahan dilakukan oleh kerajaan satu perkara yang biasa yang sudah lama wujud adalah perkara biasa TETAPI pimpinan politik harus menunjukkan kepimpinan - sanggup membawa perkara yang baru...dengan kepercayaan bahawa rakyat akhirnya akan dapat menerima perubahan sedemikian adalah adil dan baik...PRU akan datang pun lama lagi...4 tahun lebih ...dan sekiranya perlu, apa-apa undang-undang baru pun boleh dipinda semula pada masa depan, jika perlu... ISA pun boleh dibawa balik...

JUSTERU, adakah kerajaan Pakatan Harapan kini berani melakukan apa yang wajar - hapuskan hukuman mati? Adakah PAS, UMNO dan ahli politik pembangkang juga akan ikut prinsip dan nilai, bukan hanya buta-buta membangkang apa saja kerajaan mahu, dan sedia menyokong pemansuhan hukuman mati, yang juga adalah dalam undang-undang sekular di Malaysia? Jangan lupa Hadi Awang, dalam RUU355, tidak mahu hukuman mati...


RUU355, jika dilihat adalah usaha untuk meningkatkan had hukuman penjara, denda dan sebatan sahaja - ia bukan secara nyata meminta hak untuk mengenakan hukuman mati - dan tidak juga apa-apa permintaan untuk mengenakan hukuman 'potong tangan' dan sebagainya.

Kerajaan harus bertindak cepat isu pemansuhan hukuman mati...kita ada banyak lagi perubahan yang perlu termasuk pemansuhan undang-undang tahanan tanpa bicara[POCA, POTA, DD(SPM)A,..), SOSMA, Akta Perhimpunan Aman, Akta Hasutan, Akta Universiti, Akta Pertubuhan, Akta-akta Pekerja... 

Jika ada hukuman mati dalam Undang-undang Syariah mana-mana Negeri, ini adalah tanggungjawab kerajaan negeri masing-masing untuk melakukan apa yang perlu untuk memansuhkan. [Kini, kerana Akta Persekutuan menghalang hukuman Mahkamah Syariah kepada hanya denda, penjara dan sebatan - hukuman lain tidak boleh dikenakan termasuk hukuman mati...potong tangan...dll.] RUU 355 adalah usul untuk tambahkan jumlah denda, penjara dan sebatan yang boleh dikenakan oleh Mahkamah Syariah diperingkat Negeri. RUU355 secara jelas tidak meminta kuasa untuk kenakan hukuman mati. 

Kaji semula mansuh hukuman mati mandatori - Pas

Kaji semula mansuh hukuman mati mandatori - Pas
ABDUL HADI: Saya harap kerajaan dapat mengkaji terlebih dahulu keputusan berkenaan mengikut proses yang adil dan betul mengikut peringkat-peringkat tertentu. - Foto BERNAMA
KUALA LUMPUR: Putrajaya digesa untuk mengkaji semula keputusan memansuhkan hukuman mati mandatori, kata Pas hari ini.

Presidennya Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang berkata keputusan itu sepatutnya dibawa ke peringkat perbincangan membabitkan semua pihak berkepentingan terlebih dahulu.

“Saya harap kerajaan dapat mengkaji terlebih dahulu keputusan berkenaan mengikut proses yang adil dan betul mengikut peringkat-peringkat tertentu.

“Saya tak kata setuju atau tak, tapi ia harus dikaji dahulu. Boleh ambil pakai kaedah hukuman ta’zir dalam Islam,” kata Abdul Hadi yang juga Ahli Parlimen Marang kepada media di lobi Parlimen hari ini.

Katanya, kerajaan harus mendahulukan hukuman ringan terlebih dahulu, sebelum memikirkan hukuman mati sebagai jalan terakhir.

Sebelum ini Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri Datuk Liew Vui Keong berkata hukuman mati mandatori akan digantikan dengan penjara minimum 30 tahun jika Parlimen meluluskan pemansuhannya.

Rang undang-undang tersebut dijangka dibentangkan pada sidang Dewan Rakyat akan datang.

Menteri itu turut  menggesa Lembaga Pengampunan mempertimbangkan untuk menggantung hukuman mati bagi kesemua kesalahan.

Terdapat 18 kesalahan jenayah memperuntukkan hukuman mati seperti mengedar dadah, membunuh, rogol kanak-kanak, rogol hingga menyebabkan kematian dan menggunakan senjata api, selain terorisme dan melancarkan perang.

Kenyataan menteri itu mengundang kritikan daripada pihak pembangkang apabila menyifatkan pemansuhan hukuman mandatori tidak sensitif kepada keluarga mangsa. - Astro Awani, 16/10/2018



Hukuman mati: MP pembangkang, senator usah sabotaj pula

Jurucakap Malaysia Menentang Hukuman Mati dan Penyeksaan (MADPET), Charles Hector Fernandez, ketika menyuarakan pendirian itu berkata janji atau jaminan sama pernah diusulkan pentadbiran terdahulu, namun ia akhirnya mengundang kekecewaan dalam kalangan masyarakat dan aktivis apabila gagal ditepati.

Sehubungan itu, katanya, MADPET berharap ahli Parlimen dan Senator daripada blok pembangkang akan memberikan sokongan penuh terhadap keputusan yang adil oleh kerajaan ketika membentangkan usul untuk menghapuskan hukuman mati mandatori.

“Oleh itu, kami harap usul menghapuskan hukuman mati mandatori ini dibentangkan pada sidang Parlimen akan datang, mulai 15 Oktober ini, sekurang-kurangnya untuk bacaan kali pertama sekiranya tiada masa mencukupi bagi perbahasan dan diluluskan,” katanya dalam kenyataan, hari ini.
Persidangan Dewan Negara, pada 12 September lalu, melakar kejutan apabila menolak Rang Undang-Undang Antiberita Tidak Benar (Pemansuhan) 2018 yang sebelum itu diluluskan di Dewan Rakyat pada 16 Ogos lalu selepas bacaan kali ketiga.

Perkara itu diumumkan Yang Dipertua Dewan Negara, Tan Sri S A Vigneswaran, selepas undi belah bahagian menyaksikan 28 anggota dewan tidak menyokong pemansuhan akta itu berbanding 21 yang menyokong, manakala tiga yang lain memilih untuk tidak mengundi.

Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Liew Vui Keong, semalam dilaporkan berkata pelaksanaan hukuman mati mandatori bagi semua kesalahan akan dimansuhkan di negara ini.

Susulan pengumuman itu, katanya, semua pelaksanaan hukuman mati akan ditangguhkan sehingga pemansuhan berkenaan berkuat kuasa.

Mengulas lanjut, Fernandez menyifatkan pengumuman itu ialah khabar gembira untuk waris dan ahli keluarga kira-kira 1,267 banduan yang ketika ini menanti hukuman mati mandatori.

“Perangkaan yang mewakili 2.7 peratus daripada keseluruhan 60,000 banduan ini akhirnya tidak akan digantung, justeru ahli keluarga dan ibu bapanya berupaya menarik nafas lega kerana mereka masih diberikan peluang untuk meneruskan hidup. - Berita Harian, 11/10/2018

The Truth Related About A.Najib Murder Canny Ong Death – Is It Related To VVIP?




Who was Ahmad Najib and why did he abduct Ong? Why did he torch her body? What led the police to him? What about the conspiracy theories? Why didn’t the undercover policemen who found Ahmad Najib and Canny by the roadside arrest him immediately?
Was the suspect a frequent visitor to Bangsar shopping centre, a ‘higher-class’ shopping complex? Has he worked there before? Why did he choose a time period when shoppers were leaving the complex Did he know which escape route to take? Many questions are unanswered.
And how come no one spoke to the management of the mall – didn’t they think it suspicious that a car rammed through the barrier? Why didn’t the guards check the security videos before Pearly approached them?
In the documentary, Rosal is quoted as saying that he had a hard time believing a quiet guy like Ahmad Najib, who was helpful to his neighbours, could commit such a heinous crime.
Now, please tell me who gave Ahmad Najib Aris the instructions to rape and murder Canny Ong on the night of 14 June 2003? – A.Kadir Jasin

THE brutal murder of 28-year-old Canny Ong in 2003 remains embedded in the minds of many Malaysians. The tragedy shook the nation not just because of the gruesome and senseless nature of the crime committed – Ong was abducted, raped, stabbed and torched – but also because it happened in a popular and upscale neighbourhood-mall that was fitted with security cameras.

Ong, an IT-analyst living in the United States with her husband Brandon Ong, was back in Malaysia to visit her ailing father. On June 13, 2003, a day before she was due to return to the US, Ong went out for dinner with some family and close friends at the Bangsar Shopping Complex in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur. After their meal, she went to the basement carpark to retrieve her parking ticket from her car. She asked her mother and sister to wait for her by the autopay machine.



Unfortunately, Ong never returned with the ticket. After waiting for 20 minutes, Ong’s mother Pearly Visvanathan Ong and her sister decided to go to the car park to look for her. When they went down they found the car, a purple Proton Tiara, missing. Sensing something bad had happened to her daughter, Pearly ran to the mall’s security office to view the CCTV tapes. The tapes confirmed their worst fears: they saw Canny being abducted by an unidentified male who drove off with her in her car, crashing past the exit barrier of the carpark.

Who was Ahmad Najib and why did he abduct Ong? Why did he torch her body? What led the police to him? What about the conspiracy theories? Why didn’t the undercover policemen who found Ahmad Najib and Canny by the roadside arrest him immediately?

The Murder Of Canny Ong, a documentary by directors Ahmad Yazid and Rob Nevis commissioned by AETN All Asia Networks exclusively for the Crime and Investigation Network aims to unscramble the mishmash of facts and conspiracy theories that were published by the media in presenting the facts of the case through careful examination of police documentation, interviews with the investigators on the case as well as insight from Ong’s family and friends who were with her on the night of her abduction.

The hour-long documentary, which premiered on Monday night, certainly succeeded in being a remembrance of Ong. The exclusive interviews with Noreen Natasha (Ong’s close friend who was at the farewell dinner) and Pearly were poignant and reveals the pain and torture that Ong’s family and friends went through.

It was clearly still difficult for Pearly to talk about her daughter – she mentions at the end of the documentary that she sometimes pretends that Ong is still alive and residing in the US. Still, she manages to muster up the courage to recall the events leading to Ong’s disappearance – she relates how she had an uneasy feeling as they were looking for a parking spot as the carpark was dimly lit. She recalls how, throughout the initial stage of the investigations, she had a sinking feeling, fearing that something terrible had happened to her daughter. Noreen shares the trauma of having to go to the hospital morgue to identify Ong’s remains.



Also, she speaks about having to break the news of Ong’s disappearance to Brandon.

It’s a terrible thing listening to a mother talk of her deceased child. It is so easy for us to get caught up with the facts of a case or get riled up about the hunt for the perpetrator or find fault with the handling of a particular case that we forget that there are real people involved that are suffering a real loss. We forget that for the family and friends of Ong, the murder is more than a case. It’s a tragedy.

While the The Murder Of Canny Ong documentary chronicled the case in detail – the interviews with SAC Abu Bakar Mustaffa (who was the Selangor CID chief) and Amidon Anan (head of forensics) shed light about the details of the investigations that led to Ahmad Najib’s arrest – there are still some unanswered questions at the end of the documentary.

First of all, there wasn’t a clear enough explanation about why undercover cop lance corporal S. Ravichandra didn’t arrest Ahmad Najib immediately upon seeing the woman beside him (Ong) apparently pleading for help.

The policeman got their identity cards and shot the front tyre of the car twice but why couldn’t he chase them down or call for back up? It really wasn’t clear what happened. Did the policeman run an immediate check on the two ICs he had seized – if he had, wouldn’t he have known immediately that the woman was a victim in a kidnapping? Or does this only happen in crime dramas on TV?



Also, although documentary producer Lydia Lubon explained in the aforementioned press conference that it was difficult to secure interviews with friends and family of the victim (because of the private nature of Malaysians who would rather not talk about personal issues in public), it was rather disappointing that there were no interviews with some of the other people who were involved, either directly or indirectly, in this case.



Was it not possible to secure an interview with Ahmad Najib – even if he could not be on TV, to get a comment from him through his lawyer? Was it not possible to get a statement from Ong’s spouse? And what about Ahmad Najib’s wife? Perhaps she could have shed some light on the man who so brutally took the life of an innocent woman.

There was an interview with a neighbour of Ahmad Najib, but nothing from his wife? What is her life like now that her husband is awaiting the gallows?

And how come no one spoke to the management of the mall – didn’t they think it suspicious that a car rammed through the barrier? Why didn’t the guards check the security videos before Pearly approached them?

Days later, Ong’s charred remains were found in a manhole along Old Klang Road in Kuala Lumpur. Forensic and criminal investigators found evidence that led to the arrest of a 27-year-old aircraft cabin cleaner, Ahmad Najib Aris.



The Canny Ong rape and murder case has virtually gripped the attention of the nation even until today. It has also thrown a spotlight on the crime of RAPE. This has actually led to the government increasing the penalty for rape.
Unfortunately, it has caused many people to come up with all sorts of “solutions” to prevent this incident from ever happening again. Solutions like equipping shopping complexes and public car parks with tons of close circuit cameras and employing legions of security guards, etc…
You will also note the sheer PROLIFERATION of tips on how girls can defend themselves and exhortations by various parties for girls to learn self-defence or better still, how to castrate a horny male in 5 seconds… or something to that effect!
Naturally, being a sex crime, it has also led to certain parties condemning the “sick” and “depraved” nature of all “MEN”. There are also many who blamed the prevalence of illegal pornographic material as the cause of such sadistic behaviour. These are just some of the many accusations being thrown around in the media and by the public.
Sad to say… All this is NOT going to solve anything at all.
Mark my words.
Within 6 months, there won’t be anyone watching the thousands of close circuit cameras installed in the large shopping complexes and car parks.
Within 6 months, there won’t be any legion of security guards peeling their eyes for potential rapists. 
Within 6 months, it will be business as usual for the rapists and rapist-wannabes.  
Why?

Cause the GOVERNMENT and the public have not quite seem to have understood anything in the Canny Ong case. That’s only my opinion, of course and you are most welcomed to argue this with me!
But from what I can tell, they seem to be missing the point. The crux of the issue. So, if they are barking up the wrong tree, how the heck can they solve anything??? :wall: :wall: :wall:
Why am I saying that they are barking up the wrong tree?
Well, IMHO, the Canny Ong case isn’t as simple as it seems. Let’s take a look at some points.
1. Canny was a black-belt Taekwondo expert so she was WELL prepared to defend herself.
2. She let the suspect drive her car! 
3. Both of them drove around town for 4-5 hours!  
4. They stopped twice and she never took the opportunity to run away!   
5. When they were stopped by the police, she did NOT even tried to signal to them that she was in danger!    
6. The suspect actually came OUT of the car to ask for directions!!! She could have easily have ran out and SCREAMED for help.. but no, she did NOT do that.     
Isn’t it obvious that the Canny Ong case isn’t as simple as it seems???
Unfortunately, the government and the public are obviously avoiding the issue, either intentionally or unintentionally. It seems to me that everyone prefers to label this as a neat rape and murder case, instead of delving deeper.
Perhaps, they suspect they might not like what they find. Perhaps the case is a useful tool for certain parties to further their agenda.
But one thing’s for sure… Everyone is doing Canny Ong an injustice by not following the trial of evidence she left and finding out WHAT EXACTLY happened to her.
I welcome any discussion on the Canny Ong case here. Doesn’t matter if you agree with me or not!

Dr Chean Tiang Eang

Firstly, the police have now confirmed that this horrific act was performed by a single person now in their custody.

However, previous reports have said that closed circuit security cameras showed three men involved.
Two men forced Canny into the back seat of her Proton Tiara while the third drove the car. Such details were later denied by the police saying that such evidence never surfaced in the first place.

Thinking logically, it would have been very difficult for a man the size of the alleged perpetrator to overpower Canny all by himself. Canny must have put up a little fight. Even if a weapon was used, the perpetrator would have to carry her into the back seat of the car and then proceed into the driver’s seat.

The incident occurred roughly between 9.45pm and10pm, a time when most people leave shopping malls – the risk of getting caught is high. There must have been witnesses, even to the slightest shout or commotion. But no, this was a swift operation which leaves no doubt in my mind that there were more than one alleged perpetrator.

The modus operandi of the perpetrator probably showed that he is “power assertive”. His victim could have been pre-selected or opportunistic, i.e too good to pass up. However the location is a mystery.

Such power assertive random rapists would usually choose a convenient and secluded place – not a car park in a shopping mall at peak time! Such rapists also usually do not harm the victims. Sadism, perhaps? What was the exact motive?


It is also illogical that security cameras did not reveal much. Either the perpetrator knew the security measures there or the cameras are not well located. Was the suspect videotaped at the parking lot or is there physical evidence linking him to the crime at Bangsar?

Was the suspect a frequent visitor to Bangsar shopping centre, a ‘higher-class’ shopping complex? Has he worked there before? Why did he choose a time period when shoppers were leaving the complex Did he know which escape route to take? Many questions are unanswered.

Secondly, two detectives reportedly stopped the vehicle and spoke to the driver and even managed to get identify cards of the driver and victim. Several inconsistencies here.

One, the police should have noticed something amiss. How often do drivers carry their passenger’s identity cards? How did the suspect produce both documents? Was the victim conscious at the time? If she was, I have no doubt she would have sought help. If she was unconscious, shouldn’t the police have attempted to revive her?

Two, why on earth did the two officers casually return to the police station and not radio for backup? The car obviously sped off while the police were questioning the driver. This is absurd if it is the truth. But is it?

It is amazing how the police is so eager to close this case. The investigation is only as good as its investigators, and this case is far from over. I strongly urge someone in this field to pursue the matter. Justice must be done. - The Coverage, 21/5/2018