November 23, 2011
Peaceful Assembly Law undermines Constitution, says Ambiga
Bersih 2.0 chief Dato' Ambiga Sreenevasan slammed currently a due brand new law upon pacific public for giving greater powers to a home minister as well as a military to curb gainsay as well as criticise a Federal Constitution.
In a statement currently (November 22,2011) a distinguished counsel accused a supervision of failing to keep up with general standards as well as formulating instead a illusion which Malaysians right away have greater leisure as supposing by a country's autarchic law.
"This Bill restricts a rights as much as possible. It gives unobstructed powers to a minister as well as a military to serve shorten a leisure to assemble. It impinges upon free speech. In short, it will stymie legitimate gainsay in a country," Ambiga charged.
"Furthermore leisure of public includes pacific street protests. By excluding this as a right altogether a Federal Constitution is once again undermined," she said.
Ambiga moved to punch holes in a Peaceful Assembly Bill tabled this morning, observant it was
worse than a existent as well as unconstitutional territory twenty-seven of a Police Act 1967 it was to replace.
"This right is one of a many simple as well as indispensable of a elemental freedoms necessary for a functioning of a approved society as well as is supposing for in a Federal Constitution,"! she pro nounced as well as cited from a 2004 Royal Commission upon a Police led by former Chief Justice Tun Mohammed Dzaiddin Abdullah to infer her point.
The vocal human rights activist urged a supervision to rught away withdraw a due law if it was sincere to infer scold Datuk Seri Najib Razak's reformist mount upon creation Malaysia a "best democracy".
The Prime Minister promised a raft of reforms in his Malaysia Day address upon Sep 15, including a repeal of a argumentative Internal Security Act (ISA) as well as you do away with annual permits for a print media, observant he wanted to give Malaysians some-more freedom.
The former Malaysian Bar President cautioned which voters will be watching a MPs to see who supported a due law in a run-up to a 13th general election, widely expected to be called early subsequent year.
But a Bar Council's current inherent law cabinet chief, Syahredzan Johan, took a somewhat opposite stance.
The younger counsel told The Malaysian Insider that while he had grave misgivings about a government's prohibition of "street protests" as well as a definition, he regarded a brand new law as a "step up" compared to territory twenty-seven of a Police Act.
"Section twenty-seven is really oppressive. Anything which loses which is a step forward, with caveats," he said."To me it's still a step brazen since you don't need a permit from a military anymore. Now they can't stop you from assembling though you should pull brazen for a weaknesses to be rectified," he added.
Pakatan Rakyat MPs in Parliament currently castigated a supervision for presenting a some-more "repressive" law notwithstanding being globally panned after it resorted to tough military measures to clamp down upon dissent.
In a city lockdown last July 9 during a Bersih 2.0 rally, military had shot chemical-laced water cannons as well as tear gas in to thousands of street demonstrators demanding for cleanser elections.
The organisers estimated 50,000 people tu! rned out for a rally, though central figures put a figures closer to 6,000 with scarcely 1,600 arrested.
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