December 21, 2011
Peaceful Assembly Bill Passed
The much-criticised Peaceful Assembly Bill was upheld during a Dewan Negara currently (December 20), merely twenty-two days after it was pushed by a Dewan Rakyat final month.
The Bill was tabled by Deputy Minister in a Prime Minister's Department VK Liew in a afternoon as well as upheld after nearly four hours of debates. Senate President Abu Zahar Nika Ujang allowed all senators to take partial in a debate. However, usually six BN senators as well as four Pakatan Rakyat senators offering their views.
The Bill was upheld after bloc voting, with 39 senators supporting a new legislation which prohibits street demonstrations, while eight senators opposed it.
Bloc choosing by casting votes was requested by a Pakatan senator to record their displeasure with a cryptic law. UMNO senator Abdul Rahman Bakar quipped which a move was usually a waste of time, as well as upheld his "condolences" to those upon a antithesis bench.
During a debate, PKR senator Syed Husin Ali (left) retorted which a Bill overrides a supplies underneath a Federal Constitution as Article 10(1)(b) accords a people with a right to assemble peacefully.
He argued which although a legislative physique has a powers to order laws to shorten freedom, a Peaceful Assembly Bill is being mooted to utterly clean out a right to street protest.
"The constitution is a highest law in a country, all a laws should be subject to it," he said, adding which a constitution is "weak" as it has been nice some-more than 170 times.
Syed Husin additionally took upon a Police, accusing them of being a provokers during pacific assemblies as well as rallies.
"They have been a one who means difficulty (to a prot! esters), " he reiterated, citing a hullabaloo which transpired during a Bersih 2.0 convene upon July 9 where a police were criticised for manhandling a participants.When a people have been ready to disperse, usually then will a police follow after them. This is a means of a chaos," he said.
Comparatively, in other approved nations a Police would cooperate with protesters to promote a convene instead using force to sunder a gathering.
'Bill required to quell untoward incidents'
Liew, who wound up a proceeding, picked upon Syed Husin's anxiety to Bersih 2.0, observant which it was Batu PKR MP Tian Chua who caused a mélange in KL Sentral by "provoking a Police".
Justifying a Bill, he pronounced it is required to quell untoward incidents during an assembly.
Liew (right) additionally picked upon a walkout staged by Pakatan parliamentarians during a second reading of a Bill in a Dewan Rakyat, observant which they had missed an opportunity to debate a contentious law.
"They neglected their responsibilities as MPs, they chose to become MPs just to prove their political gratifications," pronounced Liew.
Coming back to a Bill, Liew insisted which as prolonged as pacific assemblies have been cramped to a designated places, after a law is gazetted there will be no need to seek Police permission first.
When a Bill was being contemplated in Parliament upon November 29, members of a Bar Council, flanked by some-more than 1,000 supporters, marched demanding which a legislation to be withdrawn.
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Others found a some-more singular ways to reject a che! ck by or ganising a array of flashmobs during a iconic Kuala Lumpur Twin Towers (KLCC). The activists have been consistently hosting a event each week end as well as performing assorted acts such as singing around a Yuletide tree during a centre justice of a mall as well as picnicking upon a grounds.
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