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>Subject: H-Net* Yet more condemn crackdown - But Bar Council rejects
>petition for special meeting
>Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:38:22 +1000
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> Even as home minister and prime ministerial wannabe Abdullah Badawi was
>cornered and forced
> to utter the phrase "law of the jungle" popularised by his jailed
>predecessor
>Anwar Ibrahim,
> worldwide condemnations continue to pour in over the crackdown on free
>speech
>and democracy
> launched on January 12.
>
> "Our country has laws ... not the law of the jungle," replied Abdullah
>when
>asked to comment on
> the United States' concern over the recent spate of arrests, hours after
>prime
>minister Mahathir
> Mohamad hurriedly left for a vacation abroad.
>
> Days before his arrests in September 1998, Anwar warned that Malaysia's
>concept
> of rule of law
> was increasingly heading to that of "law of the jungle".
>
> The United States government on January 15 said it was "deeply concerned"
>by
>the crackdown,
> which it described as a "cynical attempt" to intimidate opponents.
>
> "We share widely expressed concerns that these arrests are a transparent
>and
>cynical attempt to
> intimidate government opponents and stifle legitimate political
>discourse,"
>said US State
> Department spokesman James Foley
>
> Foley said the US will be closely monitoring the sedition cases.
>
> "The cases of these individuals will be closely watched, both within
>Malaysia
>and throughout the
> world, particularly with a view to whether they receive impartial
>treatment
>with due process of the
> law in fair and open proceedings.
>
> "We call on the government of Malaysia to protect internationally
>recognized
>rights of free speech
> and political expression."
>
> In Paris, the French-based media organisation, World Association of
>Newspapers,
> which
> represents more than 17,000 publications in 93 countries, has joined
>other
>international groups in
> expressing "serious concern at the harassment" of Malaysian media.
>
> In a letter to Mahathir, its president Bengt Braun called for charges
>against
>Harakah editor Zulkifli
> Sulong to be dropped.
>
> "We respectfully call on you to ensure that all newspapers are permitted
>to
>circulate freely in
> Malaysia and that the Printing Press and Publications Act is not used as
>a
>mechanism for
> suppressing critical opinion," he urged.
>
> Copies of the letter was also sent to United Nations Secretary-General
>Kofi
>Annan, UN High
> Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson and UNESCO Director-General
>Koichiro
> Matsuura.
>
> In London, international human rights group Amnesty International
>condemned the
> government
> for using "selective prosecution" to silence outspoken critics.
>
> "Amnesty International has long believed that the continued existence of
>an
>array of restrictive laws
> in Malaysia, many unable to be challenged in court, poses a grave threat
>to
>fundamental rights of
> freedom," it said.
>
> "The organisation fears that the safeguards designed to prevent the
>authorities
> from using such laws
> to initiate selective prosecution for political purposes have been
>fundamentally weakened."
>
> Amnesty noted that government and opposition figures had made public
>statements
> that could be
> interpreted as potentially seditious but only opposition members had been
>charged.
>
> "Charging political leaders and journalists with sedition threatens to
>strike
>at the heart of free
> speech in a democratic society," it said. "When such prosecution appears
>to
>fall solely on
> opposition figures, public confidence in the rule of law risks being
>seriously
>undermined."
>
> Amnesty warned that the courts may not adequately defend the freedom of
>expression under the
> Malaysian constitution and international law.
>
> Meanwhile, the Malaysian Bar Council, which has been silent in the wake
>of the
>crackdown, said
> it would not hold any special meeting to discuss the "sedition" charges
>brought
> against Anwar's
> defence lawyer Karpal Singh.
>
> Its chairman R Chelvarajah said the council does not plan any form of
>protests
>to register their
> concerns but would opt to "use the courts".
>
> "We will use the rule of law to demonstrate our independence," he said.
>
> Fifty three lawyers had filed a petition to the council, asking for a
>special
>meeting. Lawyer P.
> Uthayakumar who initiated the petition for the special assembly, said Kar
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