Jumaat, 29 Julai 2011

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Pembebasan PSM6 disambut meriah

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 08:29 AM PDT

oleh : Jimadie Shah Othman

Pembebasan enam anggota Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) hari ini disambut meriah ala karnival oleh rakyat pelbagai kaum.

Semua mereka dibebaskan pada jam 5.30 petang di balai polis Jinjang.

Mereka yang dibebaskan itu termasuk ahli parlimen Sungai Siput, Dr D Jeyakumar dan lima yang lain itu ialah setiausaha bahagian PSM Sungai Siput, AP Letchumanan, 49, anggota jawatankuasa pusat, Choo Chon Kai, 33, M Sukumaran 50, timbalan pengerusi PSM, M Sarasvathy, 58, dan pemimpin pemuda, R Sarat Babu, 25

Dua jam selepas dibebaskan, ratusan orang berkumpul di Dewan Perhimpunan Cina Selangor dan Kuala Lumpur (KLSCAH) di Kampung Attap Kuala Lumpur sambil melaungkan "hidup rakyat" dan "mansuhkan EO" (Ordinan Darurat) berkali-kali.

Mereka juga membawa bendera PSM dan pelbagai kain rentang menyambut kedatangan kesemua mereka.

Antara yang kelihatan ialah naib presiden PKR, Nurul Izzah Anwar; pengerusi PSM, Dr Nasir Hashim dan bengerusi BERSIH, Datuk S Ambiga.

Kumpulan itu menjadi semakin ramai apabila bergabung dengan kumpulan penyokong Teoh Beng Hock yang kebetulan mengadakan acara nyalaan lilin memperingati kematian mendiang.

Berucap kepada para penyokong, keenam-enam mereka mengucapkan terima kasih kepada rakyat yang dianggap wira sebenar yang merintis pembebasan mereka.

"Wira sebenar adalah anda semua yang turun ke jalan raya pada 9 Julai," kata anggota jawatankuasa pusat PSM, Choo Chon Kai.

"Kami di dalam tak buat apa-apa. Yang berusaha anda semua di luar (sel)."

Sementara itu, ahli parlimen Sungai Siput, Dr D Jeyakumar pula berkata menyifatkan mendapatkan layanan yang baik, terutamanya daripada warden.

"Warden semua OK. Tapi masalahnya yang di atas," katanya sambil mengkritik alasan penahanan mereka yang bertukar-tukar.

Beliau mendakwa usaha mengaitkan PSM dengan komunisme cuba digambarkan sebagai "kumpukan jahat".

"Mereka hendak jadikan kita contoh. (Kononnya) PSM komunisme. Nak gambarkan kita kumpulan jahat," katanya.

Manakala timbalan pengerusi PSM, M Sarasvathy berkata beliau membantah ujian poligraf ketika ditahan kerana beliau tidak cukup tidur.

Sambil berjenaka, beliau berkata dalam sel perempuan "banyak hantu jantan".

"Jadi saya bantah poligraf sebab saya tak cukup tidur," jelasnya - Malaysiakini

PSM6 akhirnya dibebaskan

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:16 AM PDT

Najib: Release of PSM 6 according to rule of law
By Shannon TeohJuly 29, 2011

KUALA LUMPUR, July 29 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak has insisted that the release of six Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) members from their Emergency Ordinance (EO) detention was done according to the due process of the law.

The prime minister told reporters today that the decision to release Sungai Siput MP Dr Michael Devaraj Jeyakumar and five others at 5.30pm was made by the police based on "their observations."

"We welcome it. It is up to the Attorney General to decide on further action. As a country, we hold to the rule of law," the Umno president said after chairing an Umno supreme council meeting.

However, The Malaysian Insider understands that several younger leaders at the meeting that began at about 4pm had asked Najib to "rethink Jeyakumar's detention."

The six were initially held on June 25 with 24 others in the run-up to the July 9 Bersih rally for allegedly attempting to revive communism and waging war against the Agong.

Dr Jeyakumar began a hunger strike yesterday to protest the detention without trial under the EO, his wife Mohanarani Rasiah had said.

Nearly 2,000 others, who were arrested in the days leading up to and during the outlawed July 9 rally for free and fair elections, have been released.

But the continued detention of the six had garnered widespread criticism from opposition figures and human rights activists with regular candlelight vigils being held nationwide calling for their release.

The Najib administration has already suffered international criticism over its handling of the Bersih rally, with influential media such as the Guardian, Wall Street Journal and al-Jazeera taking stinging tones towards the government crackdown.

Police had dispersed tens of thousands of demonstrators calling for electoral reform on July 9 with tear gas and water cannons and arrested nearly 1,700 on the day itself, leaving scores injured and the husband of a PKR division leader dead.

The released detainees, popularly known as the EO6, are scheduled to speak to the press at 7.30pm tonight

Wad kecemasan HKL terbakar - Seorang pesakit maut

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:50 AM PDT

KUALA LUMPUR, 29 Julai — Wad kecemasan Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL) di sini terbakar tengah malam tadi menyebabkan seorang pesakit maut, dipercayai akibat terhidu asap tebal.

Pihak pentadbiran HKL ketika dihubungi Bernama mengesahkan kejadian itu tetapi akan hanya mengeluarkan kenyataan petang ini setelah maklumat sebenar mengenai kenyataan itu diperoleh.

Penolong Pengarah Bahagian Operasi Bomba, Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Kuala Lumpur, Azizan Ismail, ketika dihubungi Bernama, berkata kebakaran dikatakan berlaku kira-kira pukul 12 tengah malam dan pihak bomba menerima panggilan setengah jam kemudian.

"Anggota bomba tiba tujuh minit selepas mendapat panggilan dan ketika itu petugas HKL sedang bertungkus lumus memadamkan api serta mengeluarkan asap dari bilik itu kerana cuba menyelamatkan pesakit lelaki berkenaan," kata beliau.

"Selepas pihak bomba berjaya memadamkan kebakaran dan mengeluarkan asap dari bilik tersebut, mangsa didapati sudah tidak bernyawa.

"Pesakit lain yang berada di luar bilik berkenaan terpaksa dipindahkan ke bilik lain kerana dibimbangi asap tebal akan membahayakan nyawa mereka," katanya.

Azizan berkata dua jentera bomba dari Balai Bomba dan Penyelamat Chow Kit dan Sentul dengan 20 anggota terlibat dalam operasi memadam kebakaran. - The Malaysian Insider

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