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Peaceful Assembly Law undermines Constitution, says Ambiga

November 23, 2011

Peaceful Assembly Law undermines Constitution, says Ambiga

By Debra Chong (11-22-11)

Bersih 2.0 arch Dato' Ambiga Sreenevasan slammed currently a due brand brand new law upon pacific assembly for giving greater powers to a home minister as well as a military to quell dissent as well as criticise a Federal Constitution.

In a statement currently (November 22,2011) a distinguished counsel indicted a supervision of unwell to keep up with international standards as well as creating instead a illusion which Malaysians right away have greater leisure as supposing by a country's autarchic law.

"This Bill restricts a rights as many as possible. It gives unfettered powers to a minister as well as a military to further restrict a leisure to assemble. It impinges upon giveaway speech. In short, it will stymie legitimate dissent in a country," Ambiga charged.

"Furthermore leisure of assembly includes pacific travel protests. By excluding this as a right altogether a Federal Constitution is once again undermined," she said.

Ambiga changed to punch holes in a Peaceful Assembly Bill tabled this morning, observant it was worse than a existing as well as unconstitutional territory twenty-seven of a Police Act 1967 it was to replace.

"This right is a single of a many basic as well as essential of a fundamental freedoms required for a functioning of a democratic society as well as is supposing for in a Federal Con! stitutio n," she pronounced as well as cited from a 2004 Royal Commission upon a Police led by former Chief Justice Tun Mohammed Dzaiddin Abdullah to prove her point.

The outspoken tellurian rights romantic urged a supervision to immediately repel a due law if it was sincere to prove correct Datuk Seri Najib Razak's reformist stand upon making Malaysia a "best democracy".

The Prime Minister promised a raft of reforms in his Malaysia Day address upon September 15, including a dissolution of a controversial Internal Security Act (ISA) as well as we do away with annual permits for a print media, observant he longed for to give Malaysians some-more freedom.

The former Malaysian Bar President cautioned which voters will be examination a MPs to see who upheld a due law in a run-up to a 13th ubiquitous election, widely expected to be called early subsequent year.

But a Bar Council's current constitutional law committee chief, Syahredzan Johan, took a slightly opposite stance.

The younger counsel told The Malaysian Insider that whilst he had grave misgivings about a government's breach of "street protests" as well as its definition, he regarded a brand brand new law as a "step up" compared to territory twenty-seven of a Police Act.

"Section twenty-seven is very oppressive. Anything which loses which is a step forward, with caveats," he said."To me it's still a step brazen because we don't need a permit from a military anymore. Now they can't stop we from assembling though we 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 despite being globally panned after it resorted to difficult 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 H2O cannons as well as tear gas in to thousands of travel demonstrators perfectionist for cleanser elections.

! The orga nisers estimated 50,000 people incited out for a rally, though central total put a total closer to 6,000 with nearly 1,600 arrested.