The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak has substantially combined world history! in a speed with which a Bill which he described as "revolutionary" became conservative within 24 hours as to need during least eight amendments.
On Thursday, Najib told Parliament which a Peaceful Assembly Bill was "revolutionary" as well as "a hulk leap" in a domestic mutation of Malaysia. But in less than 24 hours, a Minister in a Prime Minister's Department, Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz was directed by a Prime Minister during Friday's Cabinet meeting to examination as well as amend a "revolutionary" Bill!
This is a latest explanation of a haphazard, feigned as well as insane manner in which Najib is perplexing to implement his "political transformation" programme totally during variance with his oath which underneath his premiership, a epoch of "government knows best" is over as well as which he would entirely consult with all relevant stakeholders as well as a polite multitude upon major remodel measures for a country.
The amendments to a Peaceful Assembly Bill, primarily upon as well as consequential to a reduction of a order of 30 days to 10 days for notification to a police for any assembly, have been not excusable to give approval to a Bill as they have been not wide-ranging enough as there have been additionally alternative supplies in a bill which strike during a inherent rights to freedom of assembly.
Apart from a 30-day notice requirement, alternative objectionable supplies include a arbitrary powers since to a police to impose restrictive as well as unreasonable conditions for a land of assemblies, a role of a Home Mini! ster in cases of appeal, a unconstitutional ban upon street protests, a list of taboo areas or 50-metre closeness disallowing a land of assemblies, a ban upon underaged children as well as a toilsome as well as crippling fines for offences underneath a Bill, etc.
The test of whether a Peaceful Assembly Bill is "revolutionary" as well as "a hulk leap" in a domestic mutation as well as democratisation of Malaysia is whether a polite society, tellurian rights activists as well as a domestic opposition feel freer as well as more liberated to practice a elemental inherent right of Article 10 upon "freedom of assembly" underneath a brand new law or they feel more suppressed, restricted as well as conscribed than even underneath a regime of Section twenty-seven of a Police Act 1967.
The Prime Minister must take full cognisance which a former Lord President as well as a country's many outstanding as well as longest-serving Inspector-General of Police had both regarded Section twenty-seven of a Police Act as unconstitutional as well as undemocratic in violating Article 10 upon a elemental liberty of freedom of public voiced in a Police Royal Commission Report of 2005 of which Tun Dzaiddin was Chairman as well as Tun Hanif Omar Deputy Chairman.
Malaysia Chronicle
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