Youths challenge detention under EO for motorcycle theft

The youths counsel Edmund Bon pronounced they have been also asking a justice to enforce a prime minister as well as a Cabinet to advise a Yang di-Pertuan Agong to devaluate a 1969 Emergency Proclamation as well as a EO. faeizt.wordpress.com pic

KUALA LUMPUR, Jun twenty-two Three youths sued a government during a Shah Alam High Court currently for unlawfully detaining them underneath a Emergency Ordinance (EO) 1969 for allegedly hidden motorcycles.

Their counsel Edmund Bon pronounced a youths have been also asking a justice to enforce Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak as well as a Cabinet to advise a Yang di-Pertuan Agong to devaluate a 1969 Emergency Proclamation as well as a EO.

Were severe a decision of a Cabinet not to advise a Yang di-Pertuan Agong, so were severe a reasons (behind it), Bon told The Malaysian Insider today.

The Malaysian Centre for Constitutionalism & Human Rights supporter pointed out which Umno Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz pronounced in Mar which a 1969 Proclamation should not be revoked as it would be difficult to control public order when laws made underneath a Proclamation have been abolished.

The Cabinet, by Nazris answer, says a Emergency is required since its untimely for us to dissolution other laws, pronounced Bon.

Were saying we have abused your powers by not advising a King, combined a tellurian rights lawyer.

He also noted which a authorities did not follow procession when they issued restriction orders underneath a EO opposite Muhammad Arif Abu Samah as well as brothers Mohamed Ramadan Mohamed Ali as well as Mohamad Rafe Mohamed Ali.

Arif, Ramadan as well as Rafe, elderly 19, twenty-two as well as twenty years respectively, have been right away banished as well as their chateau is limited to Johor, Pahang as well as Kedah for dual years from May 16.

When they were arrested (on Mar 8), they were n! ot broug ht before a justice within twenty-four hours, pronounced Bon.

He combined which a youths were not given any reason for their detention underneath a EO on Mar eighteen nor were they informed of their right to legal representation.

Bon recently pronounced a authorities should charge a youths in justice for allegedly hidden motorbikes in Gombak, instead of detaining them underneath a EO which was enacted after a 1969 race riots.

There have been between 5,000 as well as 6,000 detainees held underneath a EO, according to a Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of a United Nations Human Rights Council who visited Malaysia last June.

Apart from a EO, Malaysia also uses a Internal Security Act 1960 to detain people but trial. The confidence was first used opposite communists but after widened to detain politicians, counterfeiters, militants, religious extremists as well as even a nuclear parts salesman.


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