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Jailed Hindraf legislator cannot be released
Kazakhstan News.Net
Saturday 29th March, 2008 (IANS)
Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leader M. Manoharan who is being detained under the Internal Security Act cannot be released although he won the Kota Alam Shah assembly seat in the general election held March 8, Malaysian Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar has said.
'We cannot simply react to political parties' calls. We have to give priority to public safety and peace and will give due consideration (to the issue of his release) only if there is no threat to national security,' he was quoted as saying by The Star newspaper Saturday.
Manoharan will not be able to attend state assembly sessions while under detention.
He can, however, take oath as a state assemblyman at the detention camp as this had been done in the past, Albar said.
Chian Heng Kai and Chan Kok Kit, who won the Batu Gajah and Sungai Besi parliamentary seats respectively on a Democratic Action Party (DAP) ticket, took oath in the presence of the Dewan Rakyat (parliament) speaker and secretary, and camp authorities in 1978, he said.
Manoharan, along with P. Uthayakumar, V. Ganabatirau, K. Vasantha Kumar and R. Kengadharan, is being detained for two years on charges of sedition for being part of Hindraf.
An unregistered body, Hindraf, claiming to speak for two million Tamil Hindu settlers, courted controversy after it organised a rally here Nov 25, 2007 to highlight the problems faced by ethnic Indians. Police forcibly dispersed the rally using water cannons and the group's leaders were arrested.
Albar said an advisory board comprising judicial and legal officers would review their detention.
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Comments on this story
Malasyu
03-30-08, 07:56 PM |
By man
'By man', you are the bullshit in parading filth. You are a disgrace.
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jepalau
03-29-08, 10:16 AM |
hmmmmm????
another example of oppression in Malaysia. Malay govt loosing control of majority. This is one of the ways to dirty fight the lost.
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jepalau
03-29-08, 10:17 AM |
yipes
do not walk down the street with more than two people carrying roses. one may be arrested for illegal gathering.
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vidhya
03-29-08, 07:48 AM |
Jailed Hindraf legislator cannot be released
ppl, our leader is not gonna be released any time soon...bt all v r oding is keeping quiet...so warch gonna do bout it....bring our kota alam shah leader out...speak up ppl of indian ethnicity....v r in despair...
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kliceman
03-30-08, 05:46 AM |
i dont want to be ignorant and be a racist. not all malays are bad. just that their so called leaders are corrupted and brain washed their ppl. only a very small group of ppl benefited from their ruling.
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Malasyu
03-29-08, 07:41 PM |
Release him
If Anwar can be released after being sentenced in a court of law, (albeit on trumped up charge by the PM which has upset the Dr ever since) then Manoharan and others can also be released.
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Release
03-30-08, 12:44 AM |
Hindraf
This botak home minister always a big problem for malaysia,first was Nazri,then Khairy now,this fellow another racist dog....
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man
03-29-08, 12:48 PM |
bullshit PM
all malay is mother fuckers include our Pm................
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