PUBLIC FORUM
8pm to 10pm, Friday 29 Jul 2011
Bar Council auditorium,
Level 1, No fifteen Leboh Pasar Besar
50050 Kuala Lumpur
Admission is free
And additionally ask Charles Santiago as well as Prof Abu Bakar Munir
Syahredzan Johan
The banning of books. The censorship of news. Restricted entrance to open records. Control over what a media can imitation as well as air. Are these restrictions justified?
Should a Government police what we write, read, perspective as well as disseminate?
Put MPs Charles Santiago as well as Khairy Jamaluddin, as well as Professor Abu Bakar b Munir upon a firing line during a open forum upon Freedom of Information Your Right to Know. Ask them about a stream state of freedom of report in Malaysia.
SPEAKERS
Charles Santiago
Member of Parliament for Klang
Professor Abu Bakar b Munir
Dean of a Law Faculty, University of Malaya
Khairy Jamaluddin
Member of Parliament for Rembau
MODERATOR
Masjaliza Hamzah
Centre for Independent Journalism
Article 10 of a Federal Constitution states that, subject to certain conditions, Every citizen has a right to freedom of speech as well as expression.
However, entrance to open report as well as records in Malaysia is limited by laws such as a Official Secrets Act 1972, Printing Presses as well as Publications Act 1984, Sedition Act 1949 as well as Internal Security Act 1960. The giveaway flow of report through a media, particularly a mainstream media, is additionally limited by legislation.
Should a Government police what we write, read, perspective as well as disseminate?
The coverage of a BERSIH 2.0 rally of 9 Jul 2011 demonstrates how reporting upon a same eventuality by a mainstream media upon a one hand, as well as by a Internet as well as amicable media upon a other, can be contradictory: Were there 5,000 or 50,000 protestors in a streets of Kuala Lumpur? Were a protestors violent? We! re a con fidence forces violent? Which is a truth, as well as do we have a right to know?
Th is forum is a first in a array of open fora entitled MPs in Conversation featuring Members of Parliament as well as commentators, as well as is conducted by a Bar Council Constitutional Law Committee in partnership with The Nut Graph as well as with a await of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.
The MPs in Conversation array is hold in and with a release of The Nut Graphs book Understanding a Dewan Rakyat in March 2011.
To register, greatfully download a registration form. http://www.perlembagaanku.com.my/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Circular-No-157-2011.pdf
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