Saturday, March 26, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Saman ekor tak perlu bayar - KASE
Jawatankuasa Kempen Anti Saman Ekor (Kase) menasihatkan mangsa saman ekor agar tidak membayar kompaun yang dikenakan biarpun tempoh promosi pembayaran berakhir hari ini.
Pengerusinya, Datuk Mahfuz Omar yang juga ahli Parlimen Pokok Sena berkata, sekiranya selepas ini mereka disenarai hitam, Kase akan membantu untuk berdepan masalah tersebut di mahkamah.
"Rakyat tidak perlu bayar, yang penting ambil insurans bawa ke JPJ untuk perbaharui cukai jalan, kalau JPJ tak benar, wajib pengarah JPJ kena bagi jawapan bertulis, kenapa.
"Kemudian bawa insurans dan surat itu, kalau polis tahan, biar dia saman, kita lawan di mahkamah," katanya ketika ditemui selepas membangkitkan perkara itu di parlimen semalam.
Tambahnya, keputusan sama ada seseorang itu bersalah dan perlu membayar kompaun hanya ditentukan mahkamah, dan bukan oleh notis saman yang dikeluarkan.
Menurutnya lagi, tindakan JPJ menyenarai hitam pesalah saman ekor adalah salah mengikut keputusan Mahkamah Kucing dalam kes Leonad Lim Yaw Chiang melawan Pengarah JPJ negeri Sarawak pada 2009.
Dalam kes itu, hakim memutuskan bahawa tindakan JPJ menyenarai hitam mengikut Seksyen 17(1)(d) adalah tidak betul dan bertentangan dengan Perkara 13 Perlembagaan Persekutuan.
(Kes Leonard Lim Yaw Chiang lwn Director of Jabatan Pengangkutan Jalan Negeri Sarawak telah diputuskan pada tahun 2009. Di dalam kes ini, seorang rakyat bernama Leonard Lim Yaw Chiang telah disenarai hitam dan dihalang oleh JPJ Sarawak dari memperbaharui cukai jalan kereta beliau. Beliau telah memohon kepada Mahkamah Tinggi Kuching untuk memutuskan bahawa tindakan JPJ menyenarai hitam dan menghalang beliau memperbaharui cukai jalan adalah salah. Beliau juga memohon gantirugi daripada JPJ di atas kehilangan penggunaan kereta beliau selama kereta tersebut tidak boleh digunakan kerana tiada cukai jalan.
Mahkamah telah memutuskan bahawa JPJ tidak boleh menyenarai hitam kenderaan di atas suatu kesalahan yang belum dibuktikan di Mahkamah. Tindakan JPJ menyenarai hitam diputuskan telah bertentangan dengan Perkara 13 Perlembagaan. JPJ juga telah diarahkan membayar gantirugi kepada pemohon dalam kes itu kerana kesusahan beliau tidak dapat menggunakan kenderaan sehingga terpaksa menyewa kenderaan lain.
Justeru di sini ingin dimaklumkan kepada pemandu-pemandu dan pemilik-pemilik kenderaan yang dinafikan hak mereka memperbaharui cukai jalan dan lesen memandu, bahawa hak anda dilindungi oleh Perlembagaan. Pihak berkuasa tidak boleh sewenang-wenang menafikan hak anda.)
"Kita minta Peguam Negara nasihat JPJ supaya akur keputusan mahkamah iaitu tak boleh blacklist.
"Rakyat tidak boleh dipaksa membayar kompaun yang ditawarkan," kata Mahfuz yang juga Naib Presiden PAS.
Dalam pada itu, beliau turut mempertikai tindakan kerajaan yang didakwa akan menggunakan teknologi Redflex dalam Automatic Enforcement System (AES).
Katanya, teknologi itu telah dipertikai banyak pihak termasuk di California Amerika Syarikat dan di Arizona.
"Kenapa guna teknologi yang sudahpun dipersoal.
"Dan kenapa syarikat swasta Beta Tegap dan commercial Circle diberi hak pengendalian, sedangkan teknologi guna yang Redflex punya.
"Kenapa kerajaan tak kendalikan sendiri guna teknologi sama, kenapa perlu orang tengah?" soalnya.
Pengerusinya, Datuk Mahfuz Omar yang juga ahli Parlimen Pokok Sena berkata, sekiranya selepas ini mereka disenarai hitam, Kase akan membantu untuk berdepan masalah tersebut di mahkamah.
"Rakyat tidak perlu bayar, yang penting ambil insurans bawa ke JPJ untuk perbaharui cukai jalan, kalau JPJ tak benar, wajib pengarah JPJ kena bagi jawapan bertulis, kenapa.
"Kemudian bawa insurans dan surat itu, kalau polis tahan, biar dia saman, kita lawan di mahkamah," katanya ketika ditemui selepas membangkitkan perkara itu di parlimen semalam.
Tambahnya, keputusan sama ada seseorang itu bersalah dan perlu membayar kompaun hanya ditentukan mahkamah, dan bukan oleh notis saman yang dikeluarkan.
Menurutnya lagi, tindakan JPJ menyenarai hitam pesalah saman ekor adalah salah mengikut keputusan Mahkamah Kucing dalam kes Leonad Lim Yaw Chiang melawan Pengarah JPJ negeri Sarawak pada 2009.
Dalam kes itu, hakim memutuskan bahawa tindakan JPJ menyenarai hitam mengikut Seksyen 17(1)(d) adalah tidak betul dan bertentangan dengan Perkara 13 Perlembagaan Persekutuan.
(Kes Leonard Lim Yaw Chiang lwn Director of Jabatan Pengangkutan Jalan Negeri Sarawak telah diputuskan pada tahun 2009. Di dalam kes ini, seorang rakyat bernama Leonard Lim Yaw Chiang telah disenarai hitam dan dihalang oleh JPJ Sarawak dari memperbaharui cukai jalan kereta beliau. Beliau telah memohon kepada Mahkamah Tinggi Kuching untuk memutuskan bahawa tindakan JPJ menyenarai hitam dan menghalang beliau memperbaharui cukai jalan adalah salah. Beliau juga memohon gantirugi daripada JPJ di atas kehilangan penggunaan kereta beliau selama kereta tersebut tidak boleh digunakan kerana tiada cukai jalan.
Mahkamah telah memutuskan bahawa JPJ tidak boleh menyenarai hitam kenderaan di atas suatu kesalahan yang belum dibuktikan di Mahkamah. Tindakan JPJ menyenarai hitam diputuskan telah bertentangan dengan Perkara 13 Perlembagaan. JPJ juga telah diarahkan membayar gantirugi kepada pemohon dalam kes itu kerana kesusahan beliau tidak dapat menggunakan kenderaan sehingga terpaksa menyewa kenderaan lain.
Justeru di sini ingin dimaklumkan kepada pemandu-pemandu dan pemilik-pemilik kenderaan yang dinafikan hak mereka memperbaharui cukai jalan dan lesen memandu, bahawa hak anda dilindungi oleh Perlembagaan. Pihak berkuasa tidak boleh sewenang-wenang menafikan hak anda.)
"Kita minta Peguam Negara nasihat JPJ supaya akur keputusan mahkamah iaitu tak boleh blacklist.
"Rakyat tidak boleh dipaksa membayar kompaun yang ditawarkan," kata Mahfuz yang juga Naib Presiden PAS.
Dalam pada itu, beliau turut mempertikai tindakan kerajaan yang didakwa akan menggunakan teknologi Redflex dalam Automatic Enforcement System (AES).
Katanya, teknologi itu telah dipertikai banyak pihak termasuk di California Amerika Syarikat dan di Arizona.
"Kenapa guna teknologi yang sudahpun dipersoal.
"Dan kenapa syarikat swasta Beta Tegap dan commercial Circle diberi hak pengendalian, sedangkan teknologi guna yang Redflex punya.
"Kenapa kerajaan tak kendalikan sendiri guna teknologi sama, kenapa perlu orang tengah?" soalnya.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Court Rejects DNA In Anwar Case
08
Mar
By Anwar Ibrahim 0 Comments
Categories: Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Asia Tenggara, Demokrasi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen and Politik
From Aljazeera.net
Malaysian opposition leader wins rare victory in long-running sodomy trial as judge rules DNA evidence inadmissible.
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has won a rare victory in his long-running sodomy trial as DNA tests on items taken from his detention cell were ruled as inadmissible.
The High Court’s decision, announced on Tuesday, is a major boost for Anwar, a former deputy premier who was jailed on separate sex and corruption counts a decade ago.
Anwar faces 20 years in jail if found guilty of the new charges.
The court found that a toothbrush, mineral water bottle and a hand towel taken from the cell where Anwar was held after his arrest in July 2008 were improperly obtained. Government lawyers had sought to submit the items as evidence in the trial against Anwar.
“I find that in this case the DNA samples from the three items… were obtained by unfair means from the accused,” Judge Zabidin Mohamed Diah said, adding that they were to be “excluded from evidence”.
Al Jazeera’s Veronica Pedrosa, reporting from Kuala Lumpur, said the ruling is seen as a significant blow to the prosecution’s case because “the burden was on them to prove a link between Anwar and the young accuser”.
“Those three items (of evidence) were taken without consent, according to Anwar and his defence team, while he was in police custody in July of 2008.”
‘Persecuted unfairly’
Anwar was in high spirits after the decision, which means the prosecution will now have to rely on the evidence of the accuser, his former aide Mohamad Saiful Bukhari Azlan, who said he was sodomised at an upmarket condominium.
“I am grateful for the verdict and this just further supports what I have said, that I am being persecuted unfairly by the authorities in their bid to silence me,” Anwar told reporters.
DNA evidence from the items taken from the detention cell – which has only been identified as “male DNA” – was intended to be linked with medical tests on 25-year-old Saiful.
At the opening of the trial in February 2011 the prosecution said those tests had found traces of Anwar’s semen.
The trial, which has been punctuated by long delays, recently heard evidence from a government chemist that there were multiple unidentified DNA profiles found in Mohamad Saiful’s anus and trousers.
Anwar has said he is the victim of a plot to prevent him from taking power after the opposition made huge strides in 2008 elections, stunning the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, which has been in power for half a century.
Human Rights Watch has urged Malaysia to drop the charges, condemning the case as a “charade of justice”.
Sodomy, even among consenting adults, is illegal in Muslim-majority Malaysia.
Mar
By Anwar Ibrahim 0 Comments
Categories: Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Asia Tenggara, Demokrasi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen and Politik
From Aljazeera.net
Malaysian opposition leader wins rare victory in long-running sodomy trial as judge rules DNA evidence inadmissible.
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has won a rare victory in his long-running sodomy trial as DNA tests on items taken from his detention cell were ruled as inadmissible.
The High Court’s decision, announced on Tuesday, is a major boost for Anwar, a former deputy premier who was jailed on separate sex and corruption counts a decade ago.
Anwar faces 20 years in jail if found guilty of the new charges.
The court found that a toothbrush, mineral water bottle and a hand towel taken from the cell where Anwar was held after his arrest in July 2008 were improperly obtained. Government lawyers had sought to submit the items as evidence in the trial against Anwar.
“I find that in this case the DNA samples from the three items… were obtained by unfair means from the accused,” Judge Zabidin Mohamed Diah said, adding that they were to be “excluded from evidence”.
Al Jazeera’s Veronica Pedrosa, reporting from Kuala Lumpur, said the ruling is seen as a significant blow to the prosecution’s case because “the burden was on them to prove a link between Anwar and the young accuser”.
“Those three items (of evidence) were taken without consent, according to Anwar and his defence team, while he was in police custody in July of 2008.”
‘Persecuted unfairly’
Anwar was in high spirits after the decision, which means the prosecution will now have to rely on the evidence of the accuser, his former aide Mohamad Saiful Bukhari Azlan, who said he was sodomised at an upmarket condominium.
“I am grateful for the verdict and this just further supports what I have said, that I am being persecuted unfairly by the authorities in their bid to silence me,” Anwar told reporters.
DNA evidence from the items taken from the detention cell – which has only been identified as “male DNA” – was intended to be linked with medical tests on 25-year-old Saiful.
At the opening of the trial in February 2011 the prosecution said those tests had found traces of Anwar’s semen.
The trial, which has been punctuated by long delays, recently heard evidence from a government chemist that there were multiple unidentified DNA profiles found in Mohamad Saiful’s anus and trousers.
Anwar has said he is the victim of a plot to prevent him from taking power after the opposition made huge strides in 2008 elections, stunning the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, which has been in power for half a century.
Human Rights Watch has urged Malaysia to drop the charges, condemning the case as a “charade of justice”.
Sodomy, even among consenting adults, is illegal in Muslim-majority Malaysia.
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