Saturday 1 August 2009

Coverage of Anti-ISA Rally - 1st August 2009

UPDATE:

6.40 pm
Police gives Free Access to PRO-ISA Representative to enter the Palace to see the Agong
  • Mohd Khairul Azamdin, legal adviser to PRO- ISA Majlis Gabungan NGO Pembela Negara walks through police blockade to the Palace.
  • He is now at the the Palace to hand over a memorandum to the Agong urging that the ISA be retained. He is alone. Read here for more
-- END OF UPDATE ---

FOR MORE LIVE COVERAGE, go Malaysiakini, Anil Netto Blog, or HERE, HERE and HERE



Citizen's Peaceful Rally to the Palace to hand over a memorandum to the King, Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, Urging the King to Repeal the Internal Security Act.
Police Preventing ordinary Rakyat from Meeting their King in the Palace

DAULAT TUANKU !
"Your Subjects Are Being Brutalised by Your Govt's Police Force When All They Wanted to DO is to have an Audience with YOU !
Please Do Come Out of the Palace and Witness It Yourself, If You Love Your Subjects ! Daulat Tuanku. "





CLICK HERE to SEE PHOTOS of the Rally from Malaysiakini

6.00 pm

  • The Police and the Riot Squad have managed to forcefully PREVENT the representatives of the Anti-ISA rally from submitting the memorandum to abolish the ISA to the Agong. Pakatan leaders say the memorandum will still be sent to the Agong in the immediate future. Read here for more
5.00pm
Police Tries to Get into PAS HQ
  • Police are trying to gain access into the PAS Hq building but the doors remain closed as party officials are refusing to allow the police in.

  • Several top Pakatan leaders, including Anwar, are still inside the building. Also inside are leaders of GMI which organised the rally today.





  • Istana Negara still heavily guarded by police.
5.30 pm
Police Brutality against Innocent Civilians Continues
  • Another round of tear gas and water cannon is fired at the remaining small crowd at Sogo. The same treatment is also given to disperse another packet of a small crowd near Maju Junction, which is located a few hundred metres away from Sogo.




2.30 pm
Police Tear-gassed Innocent Civilians at Peaceful Rally
  • At least 75 rounds of tear gas were fired and water cannons were unleashed at the Sogo shopping complex where the main crowd of some 10,000 people had gathered, intending to march on the royal palace.

  • Some 5,000 police including riot squads arrested scores of protesters as they gathered at rallying points across the city including two mosques - Masjid Negara and Masjid Jamek - and the Sogo shopping complex.

  • Deputy police chief Ismail Omar said that 175 people were arrested this afternoon for taking part in the protest.

  • Yati Ali, 45, one of some 100 women and children standing in a group outside the Sogo complex said, "We are here to fight for the ISA to be abolished. We don't fear arrest. ISA is a cruel act, we are fighting for justice" (from malaysiakini)
11.00am:
Police Harassing ordinary Malaysians
  • Police have arrested 36 people at the National Mosque and KL Sentral this morning.

  • Suaram coordinator Wong Chai Yi said another 22 individuals have been arrested in Masjid Negara,and sent to IPD Cheras by 2 police trucks. She called on the police to stop harassing Malaysians from exercising their right to assembly.
  • Malaysiakini also reported a protester was also arrested in Pasar Seni in the city centre at 11am.
10.30 am:
Police Preventing ordinary Rakyat from Meeting their King in the Palace
(malaysiakini reports)
  • A dozen riot police trucks and water cannons were placed in front of the palace.
  • All access to the Istana Negara has been blocked by the police.
  • Riot police, backed up by water-cannon trucks, have stationed themselves in all major meeting points since early this morning.
  • Police have blocked ALL major roads heading INTO the city.
  • Police have cordoned off Jalan Istana
  • Roadblocks have been erected at major arteries into the city to prevent out-of-town protesters from entering.


    Photo courtesy of tumpang sekole blog

  • This morning, traffic in the city was caught in a gridlock as a result of these roadblocks.


  • Roadblocks in Selayang have caused traffic backed up all way to Rawang.
  • There are roadblocks along Federal Highway in Petaling Jaya, Silk Highway in Kajang, the Jalan Duta toll of the North Klang Valley Expressway.
  • Areas around the National Museum have been closed
---- END OF UPDATE ----

MANA KOMUNIS SEKARANG ??
Quote:

" Undang-undang atau Rang Undang-undang yang ada ini bertujuan:

  1. Satu, bagi hendak menjalankan peperangan di sempadan antara Tanah Melayu dengan Siam supaya pengganas KOMUNIS akan dihapuskan dengan segera.

  2. Kedua, hendak mencegah anasir-anasir pengganas KOMUNIS yang ada dalam negeri ini .."
    -Tun Abdul Razak,
    Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Ucapan di Parliament

    21 Jun 1960


Remembering All Those
Still Incarcerated under ISA
in Kamunting Detention Center


5 comments:

Ricky said...

When Najib firstly suggested the idea of using Stadium Merdeka for the peoples gathering, Anwar was the one to protest. Even in Singapore the government only allows one place to be used as the gathering area.

Anwar was the one to be blamed. His demonstration style has leads many people to suffer.

If this is what PR is best in, don't ever dream of having my vote in the next PRU.

Anonymous said...

It was never a demonstration. But a peaceful march. The polis and riot squad played their cards to make the March seemingly into a demonstration. If we cannot differentiate the high-handed manner of these Government Institutions since the days of Bersih, this Nation would never change for any better. Who among the common decent Malaysian would like more Perak, Kungan, Teoh Beng Huat, PKFZ coming from this Barisan all in the space of less than 1 year?
malsia1206

wong said...

ricky keep yr vote to yrself...we have 1000000000 votes....dont talk cock here...one day i wished yr son be thrown out of a police car..yr wife be cornered by rela..then u be all alone .

Anonymous said...

Sedih, kesal dan menyampah! ini menunjukkan anwar hanya pandai membuat kacaubilau dalam negara.

mengapa perlu menerapkan nilai tidak baik ini kepada masyarakat? umum tahu yang anwar memiliki pengikut yang taksub bersama2 dengan pengikut pas yang jua turut taksub. janganlah menggunakan kesempatan ini untuk membuat kacaubilau dalam negara.

jika 10 ribu orang berarak, ia telah menyebabkan kesusahan kepada sejuta orang yang lain.

banyak lagi cara lain untuk menunjukkn protest dn salah satu daripadanya menerusi peti undi. buktikan dengan memenangi pilihanraya dan bukannnya membuat kekacauan sebegini.

walaupun saya adalah salah seorang penyokong PR tetapi saya masih tidak setuju dengan cara rimba sebegini.

bagi saya anwar akan terus kehilngan penyokong jika perkara sebegini tidak di hentikan.

Jangan jadi bodoh, menipu penyokong dn mempergunakan mereka. ISA itu perlu dan masih perlu dipertahankan. Singpura dan US masih mempunyai sistem ini. mengapa mereka mahukan kita supaya menghapuskannya? adakah kerana mereka mahukan perisik mereka yang ditahan didalam ISA dilepaskan?

FIkir lah. jangan hanya jadi pengikut!

IPOHKIA said...

Kerajaan Najis "Haprak",
Sekaranag kita ada cucu Mamak, Mukriz mula nak cakap pasal ISA, 'Bapa Broek Anak Rintik",
Saya cukup kagum dengan Art Harun, you have done a lot for the Nation and comapre to Si Cucu Mamak itu, hanya dapat habiskan wang rakyat dan kemudian buat bising seperti Bapa dia Mamakthir. Rakyat PR semua salah, tapi golongan UMNO semua ny betul, ikut polisi dan undang undang Malaysia.
UMNO tak rasuah, tidak tipu tidak membunuh tapi PR selalu buat planning membunuh sesama sendiri. cukup gelak bila dengar orang UMNO buat press statement, cukup lucu, langsung no quality statement, ucapan dan pendapat dari glongan professional. Rakyat come out ramai ramai, sokong himpunan ramai yang damai. Tidak perlu polis bawa gas pedih mata, water canon, dan sebagai nya