AdilanClub: Hisham warned editors not to report on police brutality - Surendran

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I refer to the Bersih 3.0 rally and the BN government's high-handed and brutal action against the media. We have uncovered further evidence indicating that the orders to harass, obstruct and arrest journalists covering the Bersih 3.0 rally came from the highest levels of the Home Ministry.

On 27.4.12, the Home Minister Hishamuddin Hussein Onn had ordered all Chief Editors of major dailies to appear before him. We are informed that at the meeting instructions were given on how to report the news on the Bersih rally on 28.4.12, and that the editors were asked to refrain from reporting on police brutality.


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Kit Siang: ‘All Tuns’ dragnet must include Najib, Hisham

Lim asked if Dr Mahathir’s challenge will find support among those who would be audited. — File pic

KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 — Lim Kit Siang said today Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s proposed audit of “all Tuns” and their children must include Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein, sons of Tun Abdul Razak Hussein and Tun Hussein Onn respectively.

The former prime minister said yesterday he would accept an audit on his administration after Lim claimed taxpayers lost RM100 billion in financial scandals during his 22-year tenure, but said “all Tuns must be audited. The sons and grandsons of Tuns as well,” in an apparent reference to his successor, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

Hisham insitgates offended groups to sue over Mat Sabu's comments

PUTRAJAYA - Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein today suggested that the people offended by a PAS leader's statement allegedly hero-worshiping communist terrorists and discrediting the country's security forces institute legal action.

These people could be the descendents of the nation's freedom fighters or members of ex-policemen's associations, he said, adding that police investigation into the statement allegedly made by PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu could take time.

A lesson for Najib, Hisham, the IGP and EC from the UK police chiefs

Malaysia - Bersih Tear Gas

London Riot

It looks like Prime Minister Najib Razak and his government have really dropped below the level of sub-par intelligence. They seem adamant to compare Bersih 2.0 with the riots in Britain. The whole idea that preemptive action can stop riots underscores how little the Malaysian police and BN government understand their own citizens. On a more chilling note, it also reflects the determination of the Najib administration to continue using electoral fraud to cling to power.

The premise for the riots in Britain is totally different from that of the Bersih's in Malaysia. The former was spontaneous sparked by unhappiness over an alleged case of police brutality, while the latter was a well-organized and highly-publicized rally for free and fair elections that everyone in the country had been anticipating for months.

The UK police found a brutal situation on their hands, whereas the Malaysian police created a situation that was unnecessarily brutal.

Datuk T sex video: Hisham applies to strike out sections of Anwar's defence

Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein is applying to strike out part ofDatuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's defence statement in his suit against Anwar over the sex video featuring a man resembling the Opposition Leader.

Counsel Sunil Abraham, representing Hishammuddin, told the High Court on Monday that his client wanted to strike out certain parts of Anwar's statement of defence.

Hisham denies lawyer deported for raising Najib's Scorpene-Altantuya ties

Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein denied the government's deportation of French lawyer William Bourdon was due to fear that he would reveal the latest findings on the Scorpene submarines and implicate Prime Minister Najib Razak for alleged corruption and graft in the RM7 billion acquisition.

According to Hisham, who is also Najib's cousin, "people get deported every day". And Bourdon was just a statistic.

“He broke the conditions of his visa. Because this is a high-profile case, people are selectively choosing to say it is political. People get deported every day,” Hisham told reporters on Monday.

From Bersih, Najib emerges a lonely loser: Even Hisham dumps him

Back to the wall, embattled Prime Minister Najib Razak fought back but judging from the tired rhetoric and an indifferent audience, the writing is on the wall for him. Not only is his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin actively courting warlords within their UMNO party to join forces and oust him, his own cousin Hishammuddin Hussein maight be switching camps.

Hisham raises eyebrows, warns Khairy to scrap July 9 rally plans

Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein raised eyebrows when he said the plan by UMNO Youth Chief Khairy Jamaluddin to hold a rally on July 9 to counter the Bersih 2.0 gathering did not reflect UMNO's stand.

"How can that be? Is he saying UMNO Youth is a renegade wing, what is happening there?" Gopeng MP Lee Boon Chye told Malaysia Chronicle.

Indeed, the strength of Hisham's warning has raised doubts on whether Khairy's decision had the backing of the Youth committee or if it was "lone-ranger" effort. So far, Khairy has not commented on Hisham's warning.

At a press conference on Friday, Hisham reiterated that any rally held without a police permit was illegal, and if UMNO Youth took part, those who were caught would have to face the consequences.

“When it comes to that, it doesn’t matter whether I’m former Youth chief or not. They will have to face whatever consequences [for] their action… and it’s purely Pemuda’s stand,” Hisham told reporters.

“They will have to deal with the police. I expect the police to do the same with the three rallies. We are looking it at a legal standpoint. Nobody is above the law. That’s always been my position.”

Slap in the face

Khairy had announced late Thursday that the Youth would hold a rally on the same day to “strengthen the democratic system”. But although his group plans to use the same route as the Bersih march, he said it will not join the Bersih rally.

He also stressed that unlike Bersih, which is holding the peacful gathering to highlight the need for electoral reform, UMNO Youth supported the existing system.

The third group planning to march on July 9 is ultra Malay rights group Perkasa, which wants Bersih to cancel its rally.

While both UMNO Youth and its sister unit unit Perkasa have insisted their basis for choosing the same day as Bersih was due to their love for democracy, pundits suspect they were out to cause trouble and pressure election watchdog body to cancel.

"No, we have no plans at all to cancel. Everything is systems go," PKR vice president Tian Chua told Malaysia Chronicle.

"We won't be deterred by all the sandiwara from UMNO. It's a waste of time. Bersih is not a Pakatan show although we support it strongly. The people are the ones who have a message to express, otherwise they won't attend. What they want is free, fair and clean elections. That's all, why come down so hard on them."

Prime Minister Najib Razak sees the Bersih's Walk for Democracy as a slap in the face for his leadership. The rally is supported by most of the NGOs in the country as well as the Pakatan Rakyat opposition coalition.

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