NGOs protest Peaceful Assembly Bill in KLCC park


By Yow Hong Chieh
November 26, 2011

Approximately 300 people collected in a quiet dilemma of Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) Park currently to criticism a Peaceful Assembly Bill today. - Picture by Jack Ooi
KUALA LUMPUR, November twenty-six Almost 300 people collected in a quiet dilemma of Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) Park currently to criticism a Peaceful Assembly Bill.

The mostly Chinese throng wore yellow clothes as well as carried yellow balloons as well as flowering plants to uncover their opposition to a "draconian" Bill, which was tabled dual days ago in Parliament.

They were assimilated by Bersih steering cabinet members Maria Chin Abdullah as well as Wong Chin Huat, as well as Klang MP Charles Santiago, Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng, Malaysian Makkal Sakti Party behaving boss A. Vathemurthy as well as Teoh Beng Hock's sister, Teoh Lee Lian.

The half-hour demonstration was organized by a Freedom to Assemble Campaign, a bloc of over thirty NGOs.

Wong pronounced it was "completely ridiculous" for Malaysians who wished to arrange to plead matters in a interests of a republic to have to request for accede thirty days in advance.

"The entire indicate is why one, two, 3 4 becomes illegal. We go to pasar malam often more than 4 people...

"Why a impulse we think about a country it becomes illegal? What's wrong with being patriotic? What's wrong with a supervision which thinks a citizen being patriotic is criminal?" he said.

Wong pronounced he hoped a supervision would see which a infancy of Malaysians were not in favour of such restrictions, as well as urged authorities to "move to our side".

Maria added which a supervision contingency dump a Bill as well as not only rectify it as a proposed law was unacceptable.

"The Bill itself is unconstitutional. The Bill is s! tifling, a rollback in conditions of what Najib envisages as a democratic country," she said.

The pacific criticism finished at 2.45pm with a delivery of "Rasa Sayang" as well as a inhabitant anthem after KLCC security crew requested which a throng disperse.

Putrajaya has agreed to rectify 7 sections in a Peaceful Assembly Bill following national protests criticising it as more odious than stream laws.

According to Star Online, de facto law minister Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz reliable currently which a Cabinet had reached a decision during a assembly yesterday.

Nazri pronounced a Cabinet motionless to rectify a Bill following protests from civil rights groups as well as opposition lawmakers.

Among others, he pronounced a 30-day allege notice to reason an assembly will be shortened to 10 days.

The provision has been criticised by civil society groups as well as opposition lawmakers as restrictive, particularly after Myanmar, well known for a poor human rights record, passed a similar law earlier this week stipulating only 5 days' notice to reason a protest.

The Peaceful Assembly Bill was mooted by a Najib administration as partial of a Malaysia Day promises to foster larger democracy as well as foster civil liberties.

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