Continuing his tirade against injustices, Kit Siang decries arrest of slipper protestor.
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KUALA LUMPUR: DAP today denounced the arrest of a protestor who held a slipper against a poster of Prime Minister Najib Razak, calling it a “rank and blatant injustice” in the light of the authorities’ refusal to punish Perkasa President Ibrahim Ali for his Bible burning statement.
The man in question, odd-job worker M. Krishan, was picked up last Saturday and is being investigated under the Penal Code for intent to disrupt harmony and to commit a crime. He was one of the participants in an October 8 protest against the fuel price hike and the impending introduction of the Goods and Services Tax.
In his latest tirade against the “defects and abuses in the administration of justice in the country,” DAP Parliamentary Leader Lim Kit Siang referred to the Prime Minister’s Department’s defence of inaction against Ibrahim as an instance of double standards being applied.
“If Ibrahim Ali’s threat to burn the Malay-language Bible is allegedly protected by Article 11(4) of the Constitution, isn’t the protestor photographed holding a slipper against a poster of the Prime Minister protected by Article 10 (1) on freedom of expression?” he asked.
“The arrest of the protestor and the immunity of Ibrahim Ali have further highlighted the rank and blatant defects and abuses in the administration of justice in the country; at a time when the Najib premiership is shocking the nation and the world with a white terror regime unleashed by a blitz of selective and malicious sedition prosecutions against Pakatan Rakyat leaders, activists and intellectuals.”
Lim wondered whether Najib was the mastermind behind the sedition blitz or had become a prime minister who had lost control of his government. He asked whether the Attorney-General was “marching to the beat of a different drummer, heading in the opposite direction of Malaysia as the world’s best democracy as pledged by Najib”.
He claimed that no cabinet minister would defend the sedition dragnet in private, but said “the tragedy” was that no one in the cabinet would dare call for a halt of “such a travesty of justice and trampling on democracy”.
Lim gave his support for the Malaysian Bar’s “Walk for Peace“ tomorrow, saying reasoning with the Prime Minister, the Attorney-General and cabinet ministers about “iniquities and injustices” had apparently become a “dialogue with the deaf”.
KUALA LUMPUR: DAP today denounced the arrest of a protestor who held a slipper against a poster of Prime Minister Najib Razak, calling it a “rank and blatant injustice” in the light of the authorities’ refusal to punish Perkasa President Ibrahim Ali for his Bible burning statement.
The man in question, odd-job worker M. Krishan, was picked up last Saturday and is being investigated under the Penal Code for intent to disrupt harmony and to commit a crime. He was one of the participants in an October 8 protest against the fuel price hike and the impending introduction of the Goods and Services Tax.
In his latest tirade against the “defects and abuses in the administration of justice in the country,” DAP Parliamentary Leader Lim Kit Siang referred to the Prime Minister’s Department’s defence of inaction against Ibrahim as an instance of double standards being applied.
“If Ibrahim Ali’s threat to burn the Malay-language Bible is allegedly protected by Article 11(4) of the Constitution, isn’t the protestor photographed holding a slipper against a poster of the Prime Minister protected by Article 10 (1) on freedom of expression?” he asked.
“The arrest of the protestor and the immunity of Ibrahim Ali have further highlighted the rank and blatant defects and abuses in the administration of justice in the country; at a time when the Najib premiership is shocking the nation and the world with a white terror regime unleashed by a blitz of selective and malicious sedition prosecutions against Pakatan Rakyat leaders, activists and intellectuals.”
Lim wondered whether Najib was the mastermind behind the sedition blitz or had become a prime minister who had lost control of his government. He asked whether the Attorney-General was “marching to the beat of a different drummer, heading in the opposite direction of Malaysia as the world’s best democracy as pledged by Najib”.
He claimed that no cabinet minister would defend the sedition dragnet in private, but said “the tragedy” was that no one in the cabinet would dare call for a halt of “such a travesty of justice and trampling on democracy”.
Lim gave his support for the Malaysian Bar’s “Walk for Peace“ tomorrow, saying reasoning with the Prime Minister, the Attorney-General and cabinet ministers about “iniquities and injustices” had apparently become a “dialogue with the deaf”.
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