By Clara Chooi
Apr 11, 2012
Dataran Merdeka is confirmed as well as managed by a KL City Hall. Picture by Jack Ooi
Minister in a Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz, reiterating which a chronological site was not a official gathering point underneath a Peaceful Assembly Act 2011 (PAA), pronounced a organisation should come to terms with those in charge of a venue before entertainment any eventuality there.
He forked out which as with any alternative venue owned by a person, such events cannot be hold there but initial obtaining a accede of a owner.
The right to pacific assembly... does not meant we can go to alternative people's land as well as do what we want
"When we have a right to pacific assembly, it does not meant we can go to alternative people's land as well as do what we want.
"I can't only do things in front of your house, can I? I need to ask we first. So this is a routine they have to follow," he told reporters when approached in Parliament yesterday.
Nazri conceded which no place has yet been gazetted as permit-free.
But detached from asking accede from a venue owner, Nazri pronounced Bersih 2.0 need not acquire any assent from a polic! e, in a spirit of a recently passed PAA.
The iconic Dataran Merdeka, or "independence square", where a Malayan flag was hoisted for a initial time after independence, previously belonged to a Royal Selangor Club before it was acquired by DBKL in 1987.
According a city hall's website, DBKL is a authority responsible for managing as well as progressing a square.
The PAA was due as well as passed final year after an conflict was lifted over a government's handling of Bersih's final convene upon July 9.
The convene had saw thousands throng a collateral city's streets to march for giveaway as well as satisfactory elections during a time when gatherings were still deemed bootleg but assent from a authorities.
At about midday, demonstration military dismissed rip gas as well as chemical-laced H2O to sunder protesters who had fabricated for an differently pacific eventuality calling for electoral reform.
The clampdown drew disastrous broadside for a Najib administration in a foreign media, as well as was seen as among a key reasons during a back of a proposal for a new public Act.
The Bersih pact looks intent upon putting to a test a provisions for pacific public underneath a new legislation as well as confirmed final week which a new law still unconstitutionally impinges upon a leisure of assembly.
Earlier yesterday, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein gave a government's curtsy towards "Bersih 3.0", acknowledging which a eventuality is meant to be pacific as well as is therefore not deliberate a "security" threat.
He said, however, which Dataran Merdeka was not a official gathering point as well as urged a organisers to encounter with a military as well as come to terms a some-more befitting location.
Hishammuddin urged Bersih to cruise an alternate venue.
The PAA states which a home minister might gazette "designated places of assembly" where organisers need not forewarn authorities in allege of a programmed rally.
Gatherings might additionally be hold anywhere outward a 50m radius of a prohibited place as prolonged as military have been given 10 days' allege notice.
The list of prohibited places includes dams, reservoirs, H2O catchment areas, H2O diagnosis plants, physical phenomenon generating stations, petrol stations, hospitals, glow stations, airports, railways, land public transport terminals, ports, canals, docks, wharves, piers, bridges, marinas, places of ceremony as well as kindergartens as well as schools.
In perspective of this provision, Nazri concluded which rallies similar to this Friday's programmed protest by anti-Lynas groups during mosques national have been not allowed as places of ceremony have been specifically listed in a law as prohibited areas.
"Do it elsewhere," he suggested a groups. "Why do it during places they know they have been not ostensible to go?"
St Mary's Cathedral is only underneath 50m north of Dataran Merdeka, opposite Jalan Raja.
Bersih 2.0 chairman Datuk Ambiga Sreenavasan had final week insisted upon Dataran Merdeka for a rally, pointing out which it has been used numerous times for large-scale events.
"That is a plan. We have not deliberate any alternative place," she had toldThe Malaysian Insider.
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