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Rewcastle-Brown: Percubaan Najib 'bukan tentang saya', tetapi pembenaran untuk Malaysia | Malaysia
Rewcastle-Brown: Percubaan Najib 'bukan tentang saya', tetapi pembenaran untuk Malaysia | Malaysia
Editor Sarawak Report Clare Rewcastle-Brown bercakap kepada pemberita sebelum meninggalkan Kompleks Mahkamah Kuala Lumpur 3 April 2019. – Gambar oleh Ahmad Zamzahuri
KUALA LUMPUR, 3 April – Walaupun memainkan peranan dalam mendedahkan skandal 1MDB, editor Sarawak Report, Clare Rewcastle-Brown berkata, perbicaraan Datuk Seri Najib Razak adalah satu pembenaran untuk Malaysia dan bukannya…
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The promulgation of a resurrected “fake news” law by the Malaysian government in early March has drawn widespread condemnation from press freedom, civil society and human rights groups. This disquiet is magnified because the new law was not enacted by Parliament, which is currently suspended following a controversial declaration of a state of emergency in January but issued as an executive Ordinance. Critics questioned why Parliament was suspended under the emergency—and continues to be closed despite businesses and schools re-opening.
It was perhaps, unsurprising but all too predictable, that the emergency declaration would provide just the political moment for a new “fake news” law. The Anti-Fake News Act (2018) was passed by the UMNO government of former Prime Minister Najib Razak flush with the fashionable Trumpist anti press sentiment in a move critics said was designed to stifle dissent, and to strike a blow against a resurgent opposition just weeks before Najib lost the May 2018 election. The 2018 law drew stringent criticism and was finally repealed by the 2019 Pakatan Harapan government after a full agonising year of obstruction by Malaysia’s Senate.
Any hope that this suspect and discredited nomenclature would have disappeared from the language with the defeat of Trump was a naive hope that failed entirely to account for the shamelessness of the heirs to Najib.
The new ordinance contains a “definition” of fake news in two parts. The first part stipulates that “fake news” includes any news, information, data and reports, which is or are wholly or partly false relating to COVID-19.
Special note should be made of the weasel words contained in this so-called definition. A statement will qualify as “fake news” even if it is substantially true. It only has to contain something which is “partly false” for the whole statement to be impugned by the new Ordinance.
The second part of the definition, however, goes much further extending the idea of fake news to include reports about the proclamation of emergency itself (‘or the proclamation of emergency’). The use of the conjunction ‘or’ sets up a separate and distinct class of subject within the purview of the Ordinance.
...includes wholly or partly false relating to COVID-19 or the proclamation of emergency...
The predictable approach taken by authoritarians when confronted with the probable impact of such tricky legislative schemes is typically to ‘tut tut’ and suggest that such predictions are far-fetched. Not so here however.
This particular cat leaped from the bag fully formed almost immediately when a senior Minister conceded that any claim that the government sought an emergency declaration because it had lost its majority in the Parliament (Dewan Rakyat) would itself violate its fake news ordinance. Minister Takiyuddin is quoted as saying: “It is an offence”. It may now be accepted without quarrel that legitimate criticism of the government’s decision to obtain the state of emergency declaration is now a criminal offence under Malaysian law.
Thus continues a long discredited approach taken by authoritarian governments—of which sadly, Malaysia is an exemplar—to enmesh the legal system in a web of anti-press laws crafted to impair and chill dissent and free expression.
So drearily recurrent have these imprecise offences and inchoate legal standards become in the region that in Indonesia, a counterpart law became notorious for its “pasal karet” or “rubber articles”. It is reminiscent of the parody of 15th century English law, whose application was said to vary with the length of the Chancellor’s foot.
Add to this the notorious practice of selective prosecution and the chilling effect is complete.
Little wonder that American journalist William J Dobson bracketed Malaysia with Russia, China, Venezuela and Egypt as among the world’s authoritarian regimes who were keen to disguise themselves as democracies in his prescient 2015 Book the Dictators Learning Curve.
Journalists have been charged—and threatened—routinely with sedition and like offences. In 2015 internationally acclaimed cartoonist Zunar was charged with nine counts of sedition for critical tweets!
One case, among the most notorious, was the prosecution of a University of Malaya law professor for sedition for expressing his legal opinion that actions taken by the government in the Malaysian state of Perak more than six years earlier were illegal!
The current fake news ordinance adds yet another law to a raft of laws which remain on the books aimed at chilling press freedom—including the Sedition Act, the Printing Presses and Publications Act of 1984, the Communications and Multimedia Act of 1998, and the Penal Code Sections 499-502: Criminal Defamation, among others.
To add insult to injury, the ordinance also purports to operate extra-territorially, being expressed to apply to any person, whatever his nationality or citizenship, in any place outside Malaysia, who may be dealt with in respect of such offence “as if the offence was committed in any place within Malaysia”. So, the author or publisher of any commentary which dared to suggest that the Malaysian government contrived the emergency declaration because it lost its majority in the Parliament would violate its fake news ordinance.
No real surprises here, as the experience of British journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown attests. One of the key journalists responsible for breaking the 1MDB scandal, editor of the courageous Sarawak Report, Rewcastle Brown was under no illusion that she would face prosecution for her journalism in exposing the scandal if she dared to set foot in Malaysia while Najib was still the Prime Minister. How many international journalists now also can entertain real fears about visiting Malaysia in the light of legitimate analysis of this latest law.
A number of NGOs including journalists’ organisations have challenged the legality of the Ordinance. No one should hold their breath about the Malaysian Courts’ preparedness to hold Malaysian politicians to account. The recent imposition of draconian financial penalties—twice the amount called for by the government’s prosecutor—on the independent on line publication Malaysiakini offers little hope on this score.
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#SARAWAK INTERNATIONAL TIMES CRACKED#
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This alleged misappropriation was first exposed by the Wall Street Journal. In the weeks prior to the blockage, the Report had been particularly critical of Prime Minister Rajib Razak’s alleged siphoning of $700 million in government funds to his personal bank accounts. On July 20, 2015, the Communications and Multimedia Commission of Malaysia issued an order to block Internet access to The Sarawak Report, a Malaysia-focused website that had been critical of the Malaysian government. Additional information regarding this legal matter will be updated as an official source becomes available. It must be noted that media outlets may not provide complete information about this case. In March 2015, the Commission announced the indefinite suspension of the Insider.Ĭolumbia Global Freedom of Expression could not identify the official legal and government records on the case and that the information contained in this report was derived from secondary sources. According to the government, these blockages were justified under Malaysia’s Communications and Multimedia Act of 1998. In July 2015, the Communications and Multimedia Commission of Malaysia blocked the Report for allegedly having “unverified content.” Later in August, police issued an arrest warrant against Rewcastle-Brown for criminal offenses under Sections 124B and 124I of the Penal Code, which effectively prohibited her from re-entering the country.įollowing that crackdown, a number of other news websites were shut down, including The Edge Financial Daily, Edge Weekly, Outsyed the Box, Din Turtle, the Asia Sentinel, Tabunginsider, Medium, the Malaysian Chronicle, and most recently, the widely read Malaysian Insider.
#SARAWAK INTERNATIONAL TIMES SERIES#
Among them, The Sarawak Report, a whistleblowing website founded and edited by British national Clare Rewcastle-Brown, disclosed a series of bribery and financial mismanagement within the government.
#SARAWAK INTERNATIONAL TIMES CRACKED#
Thank you for your kind understanding and cooperation.In July 2015, after allegations of financial corruption in his administration had sparked national and international controversy, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s regime cracked down on a number of news outlets and blogs that had voiced criticism against the government. We will keep you updated with any further developments on ASIA ADR WEEK 2021. That this is the right decision given the present concerns which make hosting this event We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused by this change, but we trust you will agree Presently, we are looking at 17th to 19th June 2021 as tentative dates. The rest of the calendar year of 2020, coupled with the expected economic uncertainties. We have decided against re-scheduling at a later time this yearĪs we anticipate that international travel will remain a concern for many of our delegates for After careful consideration, the Organising Committee of the ASIA ADR WEEKĢ020 has arrived at the difficult decision to postpone this year’s edition of ASIAĪDR WEEK to next year. We have been monitoring the development of the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe with Ones are keeping safe and healthy during these troubling times. Greetings from the Asian International Arbitration Centre (“AIAC”). Register today as seats are available on first-come-first-served basis. We invite all members of the public, ADR practitioners and stakeholders to attend this event. This panel discussion will be moderated by Mr. Satinder Singh Sandhu (Sandhu & Co.) and Ms. Alex Ngu Sze Shae (Alex, Jason & Co.), Mr. This will be followed by a panel discussion on the way forward for ADR in Sarawak by our distinguished speakers namely, Mr. Teoh Shu Ling then will share a presentation on the AIAC’s products and services, the AIAC's empanelment scheme and the AIAC Academy among others. Tan Sri Datuk Suriyadi bin Halim Omar and special Keynote Remarks by the Deputy Minister in the Premier of Sarawak Department (Law, MA63 and State-Federal Relations), YB Datuk Hajah Sharifah Hasidah binti Sayeed Aman Ghazali. This session will kick off with the Opening Remarks by the Director of the AIAC, YBhg. Venue : Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK) Join us for this exciting session, as per the details below: The highlight of this roadshow will feature a special half-day event that includes an AIAC presentation and a panel discussion on ADR by experts from Sarawak. The AIAC is delighted to bring to you the AIAC Roadshow 2022 - Sarawak.
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SPRM: Hadi Awang boleh dipanggil untuk membantu siasatan berhubung cek RM1.4 juta | Malaysia
SPRM: Hadi Awang boleh dipanggil untuk membantu siasatan berhubung cek RM1.4 juta | Malaysia
SPRM tidak menolak kemungkinan bahawa Presiden PAS Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang boleh dipanggil berhubung dengan dakwaan pembayaran RM1.4 juta kepada editor Sarawak Report, Clare Rewcastle Brown. – Gambar oleh Hari Anggara
KUALA TERENGGANU, 23 Mac – Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) tidak menolak kemungkinan Presiden PAS Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang boleh dipanggil berhubung dengan…
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Syarikat yang tak dapat tender dituduh rasuah...
Syarikat yang tak dapat tender dituduh rasuah....
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Saya akan buktikan kebenaran
di mahkamah’ – Guan Eng
Mantan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak telah ditahan dua kali oleh SPRM namun tidak pernah tidur di dalam lokap menjadi bukti bahawa kerajaan PH tidak pernah mencampuri urusan SPRM dalam menjalankan penyiasatan. Saya juga tidak terkejut yang Najib telah memilih untuk membuat serangan peribadi terhadap saya dan isteri saya. Kami telah ditangkap dan didakwa oleh SPRM walaupun wang RM3.3 juta yang kononnya suapan tidak pernah dijumpai dalam mana-mana simpanan kami. Najib tidak perlu tunjuk pandai dan konon-konon tahu bagaimana keadaan penjara atau lokap. Saya sendiri telah ditahan di Pusat Tahanan Kamunting untuk 18 bulan di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) pada 1987 dan sekali lagi dipenjara untuk 18 bulan di Penjara Kajang pada 1998. Mungkin Najib beranggapan bahawa lokap SPRM semacam bilik hotel kerana beliau yang tidak pernah menginap di situ. Najib telah mengakui yang beliau tidak ditempatkan di lokap SPRM pada 20 September 2018 sebaliknya diletakkan di dalam bangunan SPRM. Rujuk : Di manakah sebenarnya Najib menginap pada malam itu? Untuk rekod, tiada penafian atau pembetulan terhadap kenyataan Najib dibuat oleh Ketua Pesuruhjaya SPRM Azam Baki atau SPRM sendiri. Azam sebetulnya menjawab soalan saya secara profesional dan bukannya mencabar saya untuk membuat laporan polis atau saman SPRM di mahkamah berkenaan komen saya di Facebook. Dalam hantaran tersebut saya langsung tidak menyebut tentang layanan pegawai SPRM ketika saya dalam tahanan SPRM pada 6 ke 7 Ogos 2020. Saya cuma mempersoalkan SPRM mengapa Menteri Kewangan sebelum saya tidak menerima layanan seperti saya; tidur di dalam lokap berlantaikan papan tanpa tilam dan bantal selain memakai T-shirt lokap SPRM berwarna oren. Saya juga ingin tahu bagaimana penyokong-penyokong PN sudah mengetahui tentang pendakwaan saya empat hari sebelum saya didakwa pada hari Jumaat? Adakah pihak SPRM akan mengambil tindakan atau berpura-pura tidak tahu tentang kebocoran maklumat dalaman?
Dari nada beliau, Najib mungkin fikir bahawa isteri saya sedang melalui apa yang dilalui oleh isteri beliau sebelum ini. Saya ingin menegaskan bahawa semua tuduhan rasuah terhadap saya dan isteri saya adalah tidak berasas. Saya berasa amat marah apabila isteri saya telah dijadikan sasaran walaupun dia tidak terlibat dengan apa-apa urusan kerajaan. Apatah lagi saya tidak mampu untuk memberikan isteri saya 12,000 bentuk barang kemas yang terdiri dari 2,200 bentuk cincin, 1,400 utas rantai, 2,100 gelang tangan, 2,800 bentuk subang, 1,600 bentuk kerongsang, 14 mahkota tiara, atau 423 utas jam mewah (antaranya berjenama Rolex, Chopard dan Richard Mille), 234 pasang kaca mata gelap mewah (termasuk yang berjenama Versace dan Cartier), 567 buah beg tangan mewah dari 72 jenama terkenal (termasuk dari Chanel, Prada, Versace, Bijan, KWANPEN and Judith Leiber), 272 beg tangan Hermès (Birkin bag) or RM 116 juta dalam 26 matawang berbeza. Najib telah mencabar saya untuk menjawab 10 soalan berkenaan projek terowong. Ini adalah percubaan jahatnya untuk memerangkap saya melakukan kesalahan menghina mahkamah (“contempt of court”). Saya tidak akan termakan dengan helah beliau untuk menjawab 10 soalan tersebut yang mungkin subjudis, kecuali untuk terus menegaskan bahawa projek terowong dan jalanraya itu telah dianugerahkan melalui proses tender terbuka dan bukannya oleh saya. Lembaga Tender Negeri Pulau Pinang yang dipengerusikan oleh Setiausaha Kerajaan Negeri dan dianggotai penjawat awam kanan yang lain telah membuat keputusan tentang syarikat yang mana memenangi tender. Tuduhan rasuah terhadap saya oleh SPRM adalah tidak berasas kerana ketika siasatan, mereka tidak menjumpai apa-apa wang rasuah dalam milikan saya mahupun membuktikan yang wang rasuah itu wujud. Najib sememangnya diberi layanan istimewa di mana beliau bukan sahaja tidak perlu direman dalam lokap SPRM malah tidak malu untuk terus bercakap sesuka hati walaupun telah diputuskan bersalah oleh Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur dengan hukuman 12 tahun penjara dan denda RM210 juta dalam kes penyelewengan SRC International. Saya tiada layanan istimewa sedemikian, justeru saya akan membuktikan kebenaran di Mahkamah nanti. — Lim Guan Eng
Tabung solidariti LGE
dah cecah RM 3.0 juta...
Maka lengkaplah 3 Pendakwaan Jenaka dari SPRM.. Aku dok tunggu ingat hari ni penya pendakwaan berkait dengan kes Terowong, setidak nya kes Banglo..sebab libat kan Phang Li Koon.. rupanya dituduh bawa AMLA.. ingat CBT.. Lagi jenaka, bayaran yang diterima sebagai Fee Guaman, ditakrif sebagai rasuah.. Wah mudah nya macam tu..maknanya depa cari saja apa apa transaksi yg ada kaitan dengan tokoh tertentu.. lalu cipta apa saja pertuduhan.. mudahnya buat kerja..
Kalau macam tu..Peguam UMNO,hatta Takiyuddin PAS dalam banyak projek Kerajaan firma depa jadi peguam yang wakili dalam projek kerajaan pun boleh ditarif salahguna kuasa... Lagi lawak syarikat Magnificent Emblem Sdn Bhd yang tak dapat tender, hatta itu proses Tender Terbuka dikaitkan dengan kedudukan Lim Guan Eng...dan dituduh rasuah... Bini Lim Guan Eng tu peguam bertauliah..ada firma dia.. bekas Adun.. Dia dapat pendapatan dari proses yang betul.. Ada kerja.. ada resit.. Cukai yang dibayar..itu bukan rasuah lah... Saja nak bagi nampak rasuah..Lainlah terima hadiah beg mewah,rantai permata,jam mewah mcm Rosmah penuh satu rumah termasuk dari Tauke Jakel..
Bini Lim Guan Eng bukan dibayar, dibantu kewangannya tanpa rekod seperti mana Pengerusi KTMB, datuk Rameli Musa tolong bayarkan fee guaman Haji Hadi Awang sebanyak RM 1.4 juta untuk dibayar kepada Clare Rewcastle Brown dari Sarawak Report... itu baru boleh didakwa bawah AMLA..agaknya sebab Ulama itu ditakrif sebagai Infaq.. Supaya Kezaliman mereka yg cuba kaitkan isteri Lim Gua Eng akan diberikan pembalasan... Simpati rakyat tinggi kepada isteri Lim Guan Eng.., tidak sampai 2 hari tabung solidariti Lim Guan Eng sudah cecah derma RM 3.0 juta.. Allah maha berkuasa.. - ipohmali
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Charges Against My Wife Are
An Act of Political Vengeance...
Former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng today said the three Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act (AMLA) charges against his wife, Betty Chew Gek Cheng, were an act of political vengeance against him. A visibly upset Lim said Chew, 56, and businesswoman Phang Li Koon, 48, charged under the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act, were just caught in a crossfire. The DAP secretary-general said during a press conference at his Bagan service centre in Seberang Perai that Chew and Phang were made to respond on baseless charges in an attempt to attack his political career. “They were unable to show possession of corruption funds and Magnificent Emblem Sdn Bhd was not awarded the project. There was another tender called and another company got the project,” he said. Among others, Lim claimed it was nonsensical to charge Chew with corruption over her professional fees as a lawyer. “Yesterday, I was charged with RM3.3 million corruption, but where is the corruption money? They couldn’t show. They didn’t ask me. “So, where is the corruption when no corruption money was found in my possession, in my bank account? “Today, there is another charge. This is not on me but involving legal fees my wife obtained as a lawyer. So, if legal fees obtained as a lawyer is now subjected to corruption charge, and dragging my wife, I think this is an act of political vengeance against me. “All I want to say is that I am very upset. If you want to go, go for me. Why you want to involve my wife?” he asked. Chew, who was also at the press conference, expressed her shock at the three money laundering charges against her. She also alleged that she was a proxy target for those going after her husband. “I’ve been a lawyer for 26 years, we were trained to be law-abiding and to do things in accordance with the law, I am not a [pampered housewife], I am perplexed over why I was charged,” she said.
Chew went on to claim that the charges were meant to create marital stress between her and Lim, with the ultimate aim of destroying their marriage. She warned others that if their political rivals were willing to use such tactics against Lim, they would have no qualms doing so when going after others who have displeased them. “I am not a ‘tai kar cheh’ you know? If in Malay, they call the ‘Kak Long’ of a certain community. “I am beginning to think why. Is it because I am Lim Guan Eng’s wife? Is it because I am Lim’s wife that I have to go through all this stress? “Is it because you want to break my relationship with him then only you will let me go? “This is very cruel. This is terrible. I am so sad that this is happening in our country. You know, you want to destroy a man, you want to destroy Lim Guan Eng…they create a frivolous and baseless accusation against him, against me. “For what? Because the intention is to break him, to break me, to break our relationship, to break our family,” she stressed. “And you know, the family is the strong pillar in my husband’s life. We are his strongest supporters. That is why they are trying to break us to go to him,” she added. Lim’s wife reiterated her innocence and vowed to stand by her husband and their family no matter what.
“We believe that he is innocent. He is an innocent man. He is a good man. “And the support and encouragement I received last few days just tells me that I am right and makes me want to fight on. “We will not abandon Lim Guan Eng. We will be with him all the while and we will go on,” she added, hoping that the people out there would keep them in their prayers because they are innocent and had not done anything wrong. The couple then thanked DAP and Pakatan Harapan (PH) members and leaders for their support. Lim, who is also the Bagan MP was earlier charged with abusing his power as Penang chief minister and Penang Development Corporation chairman for gratification between August 2013 and March 2016. Lim was charged along with his wife and Phang at the Butterworth Sessions Court in Penang earlier today, where all three pleaded not guilty. He told reporters the kickbacks he allegedly received from awarding a RM11.61 million workers dormitory project in Juru and Batu Kawan were not true as the project which was allegedly awarded to Magnificent Emblem Sdn Bhd was re-tendered. “That company involved did not get the project. It was re-tendered. Another company was awarded (the project),” he said. “They are unable to show we have in our possession corruption money. Where is the corruption?” Lim added. - thrtruenet
Rupanya tak ada Melayu Ganu yg cerdik
atau boleh buat kerja?
cheers.
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Has justice been done in the 1MDB scandal? | Inside Story by Al Jazeera English For years, the 1MDB scandal has shaken Malaysia. Billions of dollars were allegedly looted from a state fund set up to promote development. A former Prime Minister was implicated as well as a network of foreign companies. Malaysia's rule of law was put to the test on Tuesday over Najib Razak's involvement. He was found guilty of all seven charges and sentenced to 12 years in prison on corruption charges . But the judge has allowed a delay in carrying out the sentence. He's also fined close to fifty million dollars. It's the first of five corruption trials and is centred on the transfer of nearly $10 million from a former unit of the fund, into Najib's personal accounts. He denies any wrongdoing, and has said he'll appeal. So, could this be a step towards rooting out corruption in Malaysia? And what, if any, are the political ramifications? Presenter: Laura Kyle Guests Ei Sun Oh, former Political Secretary to Najib Razak. Clare Rewcastle Brown, investigative journalist who helped to expose the 1 MDB Scandal. Bridget Welsh, honorary Research Associate at the University of Nottingham's Malaysia Campus. - Subscribe to our channel: https://ift.tt/291RaQr - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://ift.tt/1iHo6G4 - Check our website: https://ift.tt/2lOp4tL #AlJazeeraEnglish #Malaysia
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It’s not ‘The Great Gatsby’, says Rewcastle-Brown of ‘Whale’ movie deal
It’s not ‘The Great Gatsby’, says Rewcastle-Brown of ‘Whale’ movie deal
Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown says choosing Michelle Yeoh to produce new movie will be a controversial choice as she is known as a Najib Razak supporter.
PETALING JAYA: Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown, who had blown the whistle on the 1MDB scandal, today urged those who intend to make a movie out of it to treat the story with greater respect.
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THE SECRET POLICE THAT RUNS MALAYA'S KETUANAN MELAYU AGENDA
THE SECRET POLICE THAT RUNS MALAYA'S KETUANAN MELAYU AGENDA
Malaysia’s Special Branch and the Deep State
July 11, 2019
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By: Murray Hunter
Malaysia’s Special Branch, a secretive division within the Royal Malaysian Police force (PDRM), has functioned as one of the country’s most covert units, or did until earlier this year, when the human rights NGO Suhakam accused it of being behind the disappearance of two social activists, Amri Che Mat and Pastor Raymond Koh.
The new Director General of Police, Absul Hamid Bador, denies the accusation, claiming that the unit has no operational capabilities. Nonetheless, the accusation shines a light on a shadowy organization that had its beginnings as an intelligence unit established by the British after WWII to primarily gather human intelligence (HUMINT) on the communist insurgency throughout North Borneo and Malaya as well as spying to counter the growing Communist influence as well as watching the Singaporean trade union and political movements. A third important task was to undertake surveillance and infiltrate the Chinese triads operating in the towns throughout Malaya.
As a colonial creation, it has never been legitimized by act of Parliament, It has, no public charter, and reports neither to the National Parliament or the executive. It became an arm of the police organizational structure with a director who reported to the Director General of Police (IGP). The only indication of its mission and objectives are on the police website, stating that it is“responsible for collecting and processing security intelligence to preserve the law and order of the public and maintain Malaysia’s peace and security.”
Today it conducts surveillance, intelligence gathering, and infiltrations that span all aspects of Malaysian society including religious organizations, mosques, churches, and temples, Chinese schools, universities, the state and federal civil services, government agencies, local government, trade unions, NGOs, media organizations, social activists, and even Royal households.
Special Branch attends many public gatherings, press conferences, and events where there are people of interest. Both opposition and government members of parliament are kept under surveillance. It has expanded from just utilising HUMINT gathering and now utilizes all the tools of modern electronic intelligence gathering, with sophisticated cyber abilities.
A former officer who wants to remain anonymous told Asia Sentinel writer that during the first Mahathir era in the 1990s, his responsibility was to film and photograph cabinet ministers and state chief ministers in compromising situations which could be utilized as a lever against them if necessary at some future point. The ex-officer went on to say that a number of guest rooms in hotels around Malaysia have been set up for this specific purpose, making it intriguing that recently Mohamed Azmin Ali, the former Selangor chief minister and current minister of economics, was allegedly surreptitiously filmed in a homosexual liaison by unknown actors.
Politicians from Sabah and Sarawak are of particular interest due to the sensitivities about seccession from the Federation. Just recently Parti Warisan Sabah, a member of the Pakatan Harapan government, announced publicly that they would ban SB officers from their press conferences. However, Abdul Hamid Bador, formerly the agency’s director, said it is the SB’s prerogative to send in their people to press conferences despite the ban.
The unit has even been involved in royal household politics, choosing sides in a power struggle within the Kelantan Royal household in 2010 by reportedly ambushing the then-Sultan Ismail Petra on the road to prevent him from travelling to Singapore for medical treatment and restrained him in hospital.
The SB’s Political Division monitors the political climate and regularly undertakes its own polling. Its officers actually knew that the Najib government would most likely lose GE14 when that was by no means clear to political analysts. However, we will never know what role it played during the election and transition.
However, the warning that Abdul Hamid Bador gave to Najib when he was dismissed as deputy director and mothballed within the Prime Ministers Department before the election may in retrospect be very telling. The Political Division conducts propaganda and misinformation campaigns.
During the first trial of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim for sodomy, the then director Mohamed Said Awang told the court the Special Branch had conducted ‘turning over operations’ to change the political views of targets. Wikileaks revealed correspondence between Australian and Singapore security agencies in which the Singapore agency told the Australian agency that the allegations against Anwar were true and result of a ‘honey trap’ set up.
Activities are not restricted to Malaysia. Officers are found in countries where Malaysians are studying including Australia, New Zealand, UK, Germany, Ireland, the United States, and Egypt. SB officers monitor the activities of Malaysian students and also use the opportunity to groom and recruit potential informants, where those students on scholarships will be future civil servants. Officers usually work independently of Malaysian consular missions, although some officers may either work within the consulates or are the consul in charge of student affairs.
The SB also operates in Thailand, especially the southern provinces. Another SB officer who also wished to remain anonymous told me the main focus in Thailand was to monitor Malaysian criminals and Islamic sects with Malaysian connections. The officer also said that if the SB wanted to capture their targets, they would abduct and take them straight across the border. These extrajudicial renditions are usually carried out on those wanted in Malaysia and using Thailand as a safe haven.
The Malaysian and Singaporean special branches have very close relationships. A Malaysian officer once told me the Singapore SB are “their brothers,” which allows Malaysian SB influence to flow down into Singapore. Time Magazine reported that the Malaysian special branch knew Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle Brown had planned to visit Singapore and had arranged for their Singapore counterparts to arrest her upon arrival.
The SB uses the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (SOSMA) which replaced the infamous Internal Security Act (ISA) as a platform to arrest and interrogate people of interest. Although hundreds of suspected terrorists have been arrested and held under SOSMA, the Act has also been used to arrest and hold civil rights activists, including Maria Chin Abdullah of Bersih.
This is purely political. Other detainees under SOSMA/ISA have included politicians Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Kit Siang, Jeffrey Kittingan, Karpal Singh, Michael Jayakumar, Lim Guan Eng, Mohamed Sabu, and Teresa Koh.
According to ex-detainees the special branch methods to interrogate suspects include stripping them, forcing them to stand for long periods of time in the cold, intimidation, threats against families, isolation in spotlights or darkness, sleep, food and water deprivation, ‘good cop, bad cop’ routines, and truth drugs. The aim is to make the detainees completely dependent on their captures to break them down mentally.
Detainees have no right to lawyers, no right to judicial review, or other legal recourse. The SB itself has no known system of checks and balances, which leads to abuse. The 2005 Dzaiddin Royal Commission into Police Reform found that many SB actions fall outside the law. Interrogations also contravene the 1984 UN Convention Against Torture, a treaty which the Malaysian government has refused to ratify.
Mahathir as Prime Minister has always been close to the Special Branch. In 1987 he cracked down on his critics in what was known as Operation Lalang, rounding up more than 100 politicians, social activists, academics, students, artists, and people seen as being critical of the government. The prime minister’s hold over the unit is just as strong today with his staunch ally Abdul Hamid Bador, the newly appointed IGP. Mahathir in support of the SB was dismissive of Suhakam’s findings about the abduction of Pastor Koh.
This is in stark contrast to former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s experience. Suspicious of the SB is that it built its own security apparatus from the Malaysian External Intelligence Organization, known as ME10. Building ME10 up to more than 1,000 operatives, Najib bypassed the SB. The charges against the former Director-General of ME10 Hasanah Abdul Hamid for misappropriation of election funds can be seen as payback for the letter she wrote to the CIA before Najib lost the federal election last year.
Today, the SB has a budget of more than RM500 million, which doesn’t include the slush funds it has to run secret and sensitive operations. Over the last decade SB staff have more than doubled to over 10,000. This doesn’t include 10-15,000 informers that the SB is handling across the country. This represents about one SB operative to 1,500 citizens, a ratio not unlike the old East German secret police, the Stasi.
Rather than use sodomy to destroy an adversary of Mahathir, ironically the SB is now using misinformation dissemination, aka ‘deepfake’ to protect a Mahathir ally. Many more clandestine operations to handle the transition are certain to follow.
The SB is now in the hands of a person who has used it before to blackmail, silence, incarcerate, and detain his critics. If Malaysia aspires to be a true democracy, then the SB is totally out of control. Who is a subversive or terrorist is left for the SB to decide. Extra-judicial abductions are unconstitutional. Many detainees have been prisoners of conscience or prisoners for their religious beliefs.
Under Mahathir the SB is even more powerful now than it was under the last BN Government.
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Singapore Immigration denies detaining Sarawak Report editor
Singapore Immigration denies detaining Sarawak Report editor
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Rewcastle Brown to launch book on Sept 8 - Nation
Rewcastle Brown to launch book on Sept 8 – Nation
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KUALA LUMPUR: The key figure behind investigative website Sarawak Report, Clare Rewcastle Brown (pic), will launch the book on her experiences in exposing corruption in Malaysia on Sept 8.
The book, also called Sarawak Report, will be officially unveiled in Malaysia and Britain.
The Sarawak-born Rewcastle Brown, 58, will be in Malaysia for the event at the Sheraton Hotel, Petaling Jaya,…
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Laporan: Peguam Rewcastle-Brown mengesahkan menerima cek sebagai penyelesaian untuk tuntutan Hadi | Malaysia
Laporan: Peguam Rewcastle-Brown mengesahkan menerima cek sebagai penyelesaian untuk tuntutan Hadi | Malaysia
Sidhu menegaskan setiausaha agung PAS Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan menafikan bahawa dana telah dibayar untuk menyelesaikan kes tersebut, yang beliau katakan meninggalkan Rewcastle-Brown (gambar) tidak ada pilihan tetapi untuk mempertahankan dirinya. – Gambar oleh Shafwan Zaidon
KUALA LUMPUR, 2 Mac – Peguam untuk Laporan Sarawaktelah mengesahkan menerima cek bernilai RM1.42 juta sebagai penyelesaian…
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Cakap Clare boleh dipakai dari cakap Ostad Hadi...
Cakap Clare boleh dipakai dari cakap Ostad Hadi....
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Bukan RM1.4 juta tapi RM14.7 juta
kos Hadi tarik balik saman..
Penyunting Sarawak Report Clare Rewcastle-Brown malam tadi dalam sebuah rancangan perbincangan yang dihoskan oleh aktivis Iswardy Morni, mendedahkan bahawa presiden PAS Abdul Hadi Awang dikenakan bayaran sebanyak 2.5 juta pound (RM13.3 juta) oleh firma perundangan British dalam usaha mengejar tuntutan saman fitnah yang gagal terhadapnya pada tahun 2019. Jumlah bayaran itu adalah tambahan kepada RM1.4 juta yang dibayar untuk penyelesaian di luar mahkamah sebagai kos biaya undang-undang Rewcastle-Brown, ketika anggota parlimen Marang itu menarik balik saman fitnahnya ke atas laporan portal tersebut yang telah mendedahkan bahawa UMNO memberi sejumlah wang besar kepada PAS sebelum pilihan raya umum 2018. Ringkasnya kos guaman lawyer Hadi £2.5 juta (RM13.3 juta) + RM1.4 juta bayar Kos kepada Clare Rewcastle Brown = RM14.7 juta Seperti petikan video di atas, Rewcastle-Brown menjelaskan bahawa bertentangan dengan dakwaan Hadi bahawa PAS telah memenangi kes tersebut, padahalnya kes itu tidak pernah sampai di mahkamah pun. Persoalannya kalau Hadi menang, kenapa dia kena bayar Clare? “Bahkan mereka melarikan diri sebelum sampai di mahkamah. Oleh itu, jika mereka mengatakan bahawa mereka menang kes ini, biarlah orang ramai mengadilinya secara yang waras, "katanya.
Sarawak Report pada 2018 telah mendedahkan bahawa bayaran berjuta-juta ringgit telah disalurkan kepada PAS sebagai bayaran deposit untuk 160 calon parlimen PAS. PAS bertanding di 196 kawasan parlimen pada pilihan raya 2018. Rewcastle-Brown mengulangi bahawa dia menyimpan bukti2 dokumen mengenai transaksi tersebut yang menunjukkan berlakunya aliran dana dari UMNO ke akaun politik PAS. PAS sehingga selepas pilihan raya umum 2018 menjadi parti pembangkang, sementara UMNO mengetuai gabungan Barisan Nasional yang memerintah. Parti Islam telah menyatakan dalam kenyataan umumnya bahawa ia tetap menjadi parti pembangkang yang menentang UMNO.
Bukti2 dokumentari, menurut Rewcastle-Brown, menunjukkan bahawa kedua-dua pihak bekerjasama, dengan Hadi yang dijanjikan jawatan Timbalan Perdana Menteri sekiranya gabungan Barisan Nasional itu menang. Hadi dan PAS telah mempertikaikan dakwaan Rewcastle-Brown, walaupun menurut maklumat2 risikan tempatan menyatakan sejumlah RM90 juta telah disogokkan untuk melunaskan penentangan PAS terhadap UMNO. PAS menipu kata dia tak terima duit dari UMNO?
Akhirnya, pakatan PAS dan UMNO menjadi realiti sebagai satu gabungan longgar yang dinamakan Muafakat Nasional, dibentuk tahun lalu. (Terjemahan daripada article "RM14.7M the total cost of Hadi's defeat to Rewcastle Brown" terbitan talkedabout.org) - TS
Ini bukti bayaran RM 1.4 juta wujud...
Nak tutup penipuan punya pasal sanggup keluarkan £2.5 juta (RM13.3 juta) lagi untuk kos guaman selain terpaksa bayar RM1.4 juta kepada Clare Rewcastle Brown. Kalau PAS tak ambik dedak UMNO, kenapa bayar kos SR RM13.2juta? Persoalannya, dari mana datangnya wang £2.5 juta itu? Setakat kutipan menerusi tin Milo saja tak cukup... - f/bk
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Four states down, three more to go...
Johor, Perak, Malacca and Kedah have fallen. That’s four down. Should anyone be surprised that Negri Sembilan, Sabah and Selangor are on Perikatan Nasional’s next “hit list”? That’s three more to go. 'Tis the season for turncoats and traitors, or frogs or katak, as they are better, and more despicably, known locally. To me, they are nothing but parasites and low-life politicians who have no business being in the honourable profession we call politics. How did we end up with such miserable, wayward characters in our august legislative chambers? Did we just wake up from a bad dream? Believe me, PN is hungry for more. I do not have an iota of doubt that Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin will now show no mercy. He is no longer the “voice of reason” or the loyal deputy to Dr Mahathir Mohamad we thought he was. Didn’t we hear Mahathir recalling how, on that fateful day of Feb 24, Muhyiddin told him that “principles are not important, this is politics”? Neither do I think Muhyiddin has any conscience left in him, even as he has conceded that “this is not the government you voted for”. It has been said that “Power changes people, not necessarily for the better”; and I must add that “it’s for the worst, in most cases”. Muhyiddin, who we now know wanted to be prime minister even before GE14, is such a classic case. He has the coveted job in the bag now and he will do whatever it takes to keep it. It’s also valid and true, in the Malaysian context, that when some have power, they do not know how to handle it. Ask Pakatan Harapan what the hell happened when they were in power. I hope Harapan leaders have now awakened from their drunken stupor, after being intoxicated with power for 22 months. Isn’t it a real shame that they didn’t even know what hit them? My fair warning to Harapan leaders Today, I wish to register my fair warning to Harapan leaders in Negri Sembilan and Selangor as well as Parti Warisan in Sabah. Watch your back. PN daggers are sharpened and ready for the kill. There are traitors in your midst. By now, you should know who they are. Johore was the first state to fall after the backdoor PN government took office on March 1. This was followed by Malacca and Perak. Kedah was the latest state to be hijacked this past week, with poor Mukhriz Mahathir being shown the door of the menteri besar’s office for the second time in four years. I hope Negri Sembilan Menteri Besar Aminuddin Harun will be better prepared and learn from the Kedah debacle. On May 18, members of the Negri Sembilan state executive council reiterated their support for him following talk that some Harapan assemblymen were planning to jump ship.
Aminuddin (above) must bear in mind what Mukhriz had revealed in his farewell press conference on May 17: about being deeply hurt after “friends” betrayed him. Mukhriz said the state reps had earlier pledged their support for him to continue as menteri besar until the end of his term in 2023. Didn’t I say previously that, in politics, trust no one, not even yourself! The domino effect following the collapse of four Harapan state governments over the past three months cannot be ruled out. The fall of the four states was, in fact, a domino effect after the Harapan federal government collapsed in late February. It must be noted that the four states which were toppled were ruled by Harapan with a marginal majority. Kedah and Malacca had only a two-seat majority under Harapan. Although Negeri Sembilan has a larger four-seat majority, Aminuddin must keep his team on a tight leash. Where there are Bersatu and PKR representatives? Nothing can be as certain as night and day. The same is true of Selangor. I would think that the DAP and Amanah state representatives are unlikely to jump ship, but the same cannot be said of those from Bersatu and PKR. There is also the Azmin Ali factor in Selangor, which Harapan must be wary of. Selangor Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari got his plum job via Azmin and there is little doubt where his loyalty lies. Many were surprised that Amirudin decided to stay loyal to Harapan – but it could be because the MB’s post was too big a sacrifice to let go. Or he could just be buying time – for the ultimate betrayal, perhaps. Harapan should do well to keep a close eye on the menteri besar because you will never know when the shrewd and ruthless Azmin will make his move on Selangor. In Sabah, Chief Minister Mohd Shafie Apdal is also getting the jitters. In a state synonymous with political frogs, the likelihood of crossovers should not be dismissed. As in Negeri Sembilan, Harapan state representatives have also pledged their support and loyalty to Shafie in recent days, an indication that the state government is also on shaky ground. Then, there is also talk of unhappiness among Sabahans with certain Warisan leaders who were once investigated for corruption. One positive sign on Warisan’s side is that many had also praised Shafie’s stand to stick with his Harapan allies, noting that it was the honourable thing to do as it is in keeping with the people’s GE14 mandate. These are uneasy and turbulent times for Malaysian politics. After all that had happened since February, nothing in politics should surprise us at all. Will you be surprised if more states are swallowed up by PN? I’ll not be. - Francis Paul Siah,mk
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🇲🇾 The media backstory behind Malaysia's 1MDB corruption case | Listening Post (feature) by Al Jazeera English Last week, Malaysia's former prime minister, Najib Razak, went on trial in one of the biggest corruption scandals the world has seen. The case involves the state development fund: 1Malaysia Development Berhad - known in the media as 1MDB. It lost billions of dollars - almost $700m of which is alleged to have ended up in Najib's own bank account. The Malaysian media are all over the story, but it was not always that way. The trial could not have happened without the collaborative work of journalists both inside and outside the country. "The media in Malaysia were prevented from reporting on it. And laws were in fact used to crack down on the media that reported or wanted to report on 1MDB," says assistant professor Gayathry S. Venkiteswaran of the University of Nottingham Malaysia. Under Najib's government, there were red lines that reporters and the news outlets they worked for feared to cross. "We were under a lot of pressure," explains Ho Kay Tat, whose paper, The Edge, was shut down while investigating 1MDB. "You are writing a big expose on a big financial scandal in a government-owned company, a company that was started by the prime minister at that time, Najib, so it was unprecedented." And if not for a British journalist running a website out of London, one business newspaper in Kuala Lumpur and a secret meeting that took place in Singapore, Malaysians might not have seen this trial play out in the media. In an ironic twist however, Najib has, over the past year, launched a fully fledged campaign to try and rebrand himself, as well as paint his trial as a politicised vendetta, all on social media. But the Malaysian media are not falling for it, not even those who were once part of the mainstream. They say they have learnt their lesson. "I left Utusan in November last year and then we set up a news portal where I believe in this freedom the freedom of speech, the freedom of expressions and so on. It's a milestone to the Malaysian journalism," says Zaini Hassan, former deputy assistant editor, Utusan Malaysia (1989-2018) and editorial advisor, bebasnews.my. Six years ago, Malaysian media broke the story of the 1MDB scandal. Najib Razak pushed back, accusing them of conducting a trial by media. Now, as he stands trial for one of the world's biggest cases of kleptocracy, the media Najib tried to silence are out in force. They, and the law, have caught up with him. The Listening Post's Flo Phillips reports on the media backstory behind the 1MDB scandal. Contributors: Clare Rewcastle Brown - Editor, The Sarawak Report Ho Kay Tat - Publisher, The Edge Media Group Zaini Hassan - Former Deputy Assistant Editor, Utusan Malaysia (1989-2018) & Editorial advisor, bebasnews.my Gayathry S. Venkiteswaran - Assistant Professor, School of Media, Languages and Cultures, University of Nottingham Malaysia More from The Listening Post on: YouTube - http://bit.ly/2by8VEv Facebook - http://bit.ly/2c47sbZ Twitter - http://twitter.com/AJListeningPost Website - http://bit.ly/2bya0wg
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