Public Forum Titled “Emergency Ordinance – The Other ISA”
Monday, 18 July 2011 03:21pm
Circular No 153/2011
Dated 18 July 2011
On 25 June 2011, 31 Parti Sosialis Malaysia (“PSM”) activists were arrested near Kepala Batas while they were travelling by bus from Kedah to attend a BERSIH 2.0 (Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections) programme in Penang.
On 2 July, six of those activists were released, but immediately re-arrested under the Emergency (Public Order and Prevention of Crime) Ordinance 1969 (“EO”). The EO allows the police to detain a person for up to 60 days, at the end of which the Minister for Home Affairs has the power to issue the detainee with either a detention or restriction order for a period of two years.
The use of this archaic and repressive legislation means that the detainees are never charged in open court and given the opportunity to defend themselves in a full and fair hearing. The EO is therefore a preventive detention law that functions very much like the Internal Security Act 1960.
The six activists have now been incarcerated for 16 days under a law that is devoid of any proper regard and safeguards for human rights and is antithetical to the due process of the law. Legal proceedings and a public campaign are underway to secure their release.
To learn more about the EO and the arrest of the six activists, Bar Council invites you to attend a public forum entitled “Emergency Ordinance – The Other ISA”. The forum, jointly organised by Bar Council, Suara Rakyat Malaysia (“SUARAM”) and Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA (“GMI”), will take place as follows:
Date:20 July 2011 (Wednesday)
Time: 8:30 pm
Venue: Bar Council Auditorium, Level 1, No 15 Leboh Pasar Besar, 50050 Kuala Lumpur
Speakers:
Christopher Leong, Vice-President, Malaysian Bar
S Arutchelvan, Secretary-General, PSM
Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh, Chairperson, GMI
Edmund Bon, Member of the Malaysian Bar
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For further information, kindly contact Sumitha Shaanthinni Kishna by telephone at 03-2050 2090 or by email at sumitha@malaysianbar.org.my.
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Circular No 153/2011 
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