Taklimat kes Scorpene yang sepatutnya diadakan di Parlimen esok
dipinda ke Hotel Changi di Singapura berikutan arahan daripada Speaker
Dewan yang enggan membenarkan kehadiran peguam Perancis.Taklimat akan bermula pada 11 pagi sehingga 2 petang esok dan dijangka akan dihadiri majoriti ahli Parlimen Pakatan Rakyat.
Tambahan, taklimat yang sepatutnya dilakukan oleh dua peguam Perancis, William Bourdon dan Joseph Brohem terpaksa dibatalkan dan hanya diwakili peguam bersekutu mereka, Apoline Cagnatn.
Cagnatn dikatakan sudah berlepas daripada Perancis pukul 3 petang tadi (waktu Malaysia) dan dijangka tiba di Singapura pada pukul 7 pagi esok.
Speaker Dewan Rakyat Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia dalam responnya berkata, keputusan itu dibuat beradasarkan kuasa mutlaknya untuk menentukan, memberi kebenaran atau arahan bagi membolehkan seseorang masuk ke kawasan Parlimen.
Menurut Pandikar, keputusan itu turut dilakukan kerana mendapat bantahan rasmi daripada Majlis Ahli Parlimen Barisan Nasional (BNBBC) demi menjaga kedaulatan dan nama baik institusi Parlimen supaya kekal terpelihara.
“Kalau pun ada bukti baru yang perlu diperjelaskan kepada mana-mana pihak khasnya ahli Parlimen, pada hemat saya, ia masih juga berstatus tuduhan, bersifat fan berunsur politik yang bukan ‘bipartisan’.
“Sehubungan itu, saya amat bersetuju dengan pendirian BNBBC jika agenda peribadi ini hendak diperjelaskan, bolehlah menggunakan ruang lain seperti ibu pejabat parti, pejabat Suaram atau lain-lain premis awam yang bersesuaian tanpa melibatkan institusi Parlimen Malaysia.
“Keputusan muktamad ini juga sejajar dengan keputusan saya dalam Majlis Mesyuarat Dewan Rakyat pada 8 November 2012 mengenai ‘Isu
Keselamatan Parlimen Malaysia dan Penggunaan Ruang Sidang Media’ dengan mengambil kira keistimewaan dan hak ahli Parlimen dibawah Peraturan Mesyuarat 93 dan 94 demi memastikan tahap integriti, keluhuran dan kedaulatan institusi Parlimen Malaysia terpelihara sepanjang masa,” katanya.
Tambah Pandikar, setakat ini tiada sebarang permohonan rasmi yang diterimanya, sebaliknya hanya surat makluman mengenai hasrat untuk membawa tetamu undangan (peguam Perancis) masuk ke Parlimen.
Pandikar berkata demikian dalam satu surat jawapan rasmi kepada pejabat Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim hari ini.
Sementara itu, Ahli Parlimen Batu Tian Chua dalam sidang media berkata, William dan Joseph tidak dapat hadir kerana enggan mengambil risiko yang tinggi apabila Kementerian Dalam Negeri (KDN) tidak memberikan sebarang jaminan keselamatan kepada mereka.
“KDN kata tertakluk kepada syarat-syarat imigrasi yang akan ditentukan Jabatan Imegresen…tugas mereka hanya nak masuk dan buat taklimat ringkas. Mereka tak berminat nak buat kecoh pun,” katanya.
Sehubungan itu Tian Chua berkata pihaknya mengalu-alukan kehadiran ahli Parlimen BN termasuk ahli Senat ke Singapura esok dan berusaha untuk menyiarkan taklimat tersebut secara langsung termasuk melalui laman sosial Facebook.
Sementara itu, Ahli Parlimen Subang R Sivarsa berkata keputusan Speaker itu merupakan langkah terbaru untuk mengurangkan ruang bagi rakyat menyuarakan pendapat dalam Parlimen.
“Secara langsung menunjukkan adaperkara yang tak mahu didedahkan. Ada perkara yang mereka tak mahu rakyat tahu,” katanya.- FMT
Permohonan Khairy dalam kes saman fitnah RM100j Anwar ditolak...
Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur hari ini menolak permohonan Ketua Pemuda Umno, Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar untuk mengetepikan perintah berhubung pembelaan beliau dalam kes saman fitnah RM100 juta terhadapnya oleh Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Hakim Datuk Hue Siew Kheng, yang membuat keputusan itu dalam kamar, menolak permohonan Khairy dengan kos RM30,000.
Peguam Datuk Sulaiman Abdullah yang mewakili Anwar dipetik Bernama berkata, dalam keputusannya, mahkamah berpendapat afidavit Khairy tidak mempunyai merit.
Beliau berkata, mahkamah juga berpendapat Khairy mengambil mudah prosiding pada 13 Ogos dan menetapkan 26 Disember untuk perbicaraan kes saman itu.
Khairy mengemukakan permohonan itu berikutan kegagalan beliau, selaku defendan, mematuhi perintah mahkamah pada 29 Jun lepas agar memfailkan beberapa dokumen termasuk senarai saksi dan ringkasan kes.
Pada tarikh itu, Hakim Hue berkata, jika Khairy gagal berbuat demikian, beliau akan membuat perintah bagi menghalang Anggota Parlimen Rembau tersebut membuat pembelaan dalam saman berkenaan.
Bagaimanapun, Khairy gagal mematuhi perintah itu malah peguamnya turut tidak hadir ke mahkamah pada 13 Ogos lepas, yang ditetapkan untuk pengurusan kes, menyebabkan Hakim Hue mengeluarkan perintah tersebut.
Pada 7 Mac 2008, Anwar memfailkan saman selepas mendakwa Khairy, yang ketika itu Timbalan Ketua Pemuda Umno, mengeluarkan perkataan berbaur fitnah dan menyebabkan klip video bertajuk ‘Anwar and kin no threat’ disiarkan di laman web termasuk Malaysiakini.com.
Ketua Pembangkang itu juga mendakwa klip video dalam Malaysiakini.com mengandungi kata-kata yang diucapkan Khairy pada satu ceramah di Lembah Pantai pada atau kira-kira 20 Februari 2008.- keadilandaily
Speaker halang, taklimat Scorpene di Singapura
French lawyers' Scorpene briefing moved to S'pore...
The planned briefing for parliamentarians on the Scorpene scandal by French lawyers will now be held in Singapore tomorrow.
This decision was made following the failure of human rights NGO Suaram to obtain an assurance from the government that it would guarantee the security of the two lawyers.
The two-hour briefing will be held about noon at Hotel Changi Village by lawyers William Bourdon (left) and Apoline Cagnate, said Subang MP Sivarasa Rasiah, at the Parliament lobby today.
The lawyers representing Suaram in the French judicial inquiry had sought a prior assurance because Bourdon had been deported when he was in Malaysia last year.
Suaram had invited him to brief its supporters at several fund-raising dinners in Penang, Perak and Kuala Lumpur.
Speaker: New evidence mere 'allegations'
Nevertheless, the Bourdon and his team were invited again to Malaysia by Anwar Ibrahim in his capacity as Dewan Rakyat opposition leader to brief MPs in Parliament.
Bourdon was tasked with keeping MPs abreast with the French investigating judge's progress on the alleged kickbacks involving the sale of two Scorpene submarines to Malaysia.
Batu MP Tian Chua said that the venue had to be changed because Dewan Rakyat Speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia (left)
would not allow the briefing to take place in Parliament's compound
following a complaint by the BN Backbenchers Club (BNBBC).
Pandikar's letter to Anwar on the rejection also stated that the Scorpene issue was "a matter that is still being investigated and considered by the relevant authorities".
He added that BNBBC had stated their objections in order to safeguard the sovereignty and reputation of Parliament.
"Even if, as claimed by the Machang MP, that there are new evidence which must be briefed... to the MPs, in my opinion, it is still allegations that has political elements that is not bi-partisan," wrote Pandikar.
Chua added that written requests to Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein for a promise that the two lawyers will be allowed to enter the country were not met with a positive reply.
'Hell-bent on hiding the truth'
When contacted, Suaram secretariat member Cynthia Gabriel said the NGO was not surprised at the government's response, but expressed extreme disappointment that the briefing could not take place as scheduled.
"It
is such a shame that the briefing cannot happen in Parliament as the
lawyers planned to speak to both sides of the divide," Cynthia (right) told Malaysiakini.
"Several BN MPs have also expressed interest to listen in on the briefing and ask questions regarding the case in France. Surely, many are interested in the development surrounding this case," she added.
Cynthia said the government's actions are clearly an indication that those involved are "hell-bent on hiding the truth" and preventing it from surfacing.
This, she added, contradicts de facto Law Minister Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz's comment that Malaysia is a free country, and that he has no problems with the lawyers conducting the briefing in a room in Parliament.-malaysiakini
This decision was made following the failure of human rights NGO Suaram to obtain an assurance from the government that it would guarantee the security of the two lawyers.
The two-hour briefing will be held about noon at Hotel Changi Village by lawyers William Bourdon (left) and Apoline Cagnate, said Subang MP Sivarasa Rasiah, at the Parliament lobby today.The lawyers representing Suaram in the French judicial inquiry had sought a prior assurance because Bourdon had been deported when he was in Malaysia last year.
Suaram had invited him to brief its supporters at several fund-raising dinners in Penang, Perak and Kuala Lumpur.
Speaker: New evidence mere 'allegations'
Nevertheless, the Bourdon and his team were invited again to Malaysia by Anwar Ibrahim in his capacity as Dewan Rakyat opposition leader to brief MPs in Parliament.
Bourdon was tasked with keeping MPs abreast with the French investigating judge's progress on the alleged kickbacks involving the sale of two Scorpene submarines to Malaysia.
Batu MP Tian Chua said that the venue had to be changed because Dewan Rakyat Speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia (left)
would not allow the briefing to take place in Parliament's compound
following a complaint by the BN Backbenchers Club (BNBBC). Pandikar's letter to Anwar on the rejection also stated that the Scorpene issue was "a matter that is still being investigated and considered by the relevant authorities".
He added that BNBBC had stated their objections in order to safeguard the sovereignty and reputation of Parliament.
"Even if, as claimed by the Machang MP, that there are new evidence which must be briefed... to the MPs, in my opinion, it is still allegations that has political elements that is not bi-partisan," wrote Pandikar.
Chua added that written requests to Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein for a promise that the two lawyers will be allowed to enter the country were not met with a positive reply.
'Hell-bent on hiding the truth'
When contacted, Suaram secretariat member Cynthia Gabriel said the NGO was not surprised at the government's response, but expressed extreme disappointment that the briefing could not take place as scheduled.
"It
is such a shame that the briefing cannot happen in Parliament as the
lawyers planned to speak to both sides of the divide," Cynthia (right) told Malaysiakini."Several BN MPs have also expressed interest to listen in on the briefing and ask questions regarding the case in France. Surely, many are interested in the development surrounding this case," she added.
Cynthia said the government's actions are clearly an indication that those involved are "hell-bent on hiding the truth" and preventing it from surfacing.
This, she added, contradicts de facto Law Minister Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz's comment that Malaysia is a free country, and that he has no problems with the lawyers conducting the briefing in a room in Parliament.-malaysiakini
Khairy precluded from Anwar's defamation trial...
Umno
Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar has been precluded from
defending himself in the RM100 million defamation suit filed by
Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim in 2008.
The ruling means the Rembau MP and Umno Youth leader will not be allowed to say anything in his defence.
However, the court also ordered both parties to submit on whether the Khairy's counsel would be allowed to cross-examine witnesses.
In dismissing Khairy's application to appeal the Aug 13 order against him, High Court judge Hue Siew Kheng also ordered Khairy to pay RM30,000 as costs.
According to Anwar's lawyers Sulaiman Abdullah and J Leela, the court found Khairy and his lawyers to have "adopted a cavalier" attitude during the case management of the suit.
"The purpose of case management is for the just and economical disposal of the case. The excuses meted by them in the affidavit to this case are without merit," Justice Hue ruled in chambers.
"They adopted a cavalier and contumelious attitude towards the case," said the judge.
Stay bid rejected
Justice Hue also rejected an application made by Khairy's counsel, Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, for a stay of proceedings and fixed Dec 26 for hearing to begin.
At its last session, Khairy appealed the Aug 13 ruling to preclude him from defending himself after he and his lawyers had, since January this year, contumeliously failed to file the various documents.
The documents included their witness list, statement of agreed facts, statement of dispute and opening statement, which were supposed to be provided to the court before trial.
Shafee said after today's proceedings that he would appeal the decision.
Leela indicated they would call Anwar and a Malaysiakini reporter to testify when hearing begins on Dec 26.
Anwar had on March 7, 2008, filed the suit against Khairy, or KJ as he is widely known, for uttering defamatory words against him and causing the posting of a video clip titled ‘Anwar and kin no threat' to be uploaded on websites, including in Malaysiakini. Khairy then was Umno Youth deputy chief
The opposition leader claimed that the video clip on Malaysiakini contained defamatory words spoken by Khairy at a ceramah in Lembah Pantai in Kuala Lumpur on Feb 20, 2008.
Khairy, in his statement of defence filed on Oct 8, 2010, said he relied on the defence of justification and qualified privilege.
On Aug 9, the Court of Appeal ordered the case to proceed for trial after Khairy failed to get the suit summarily struck out.-malaysiakini
cheer.The ruling means the Rembau MP and Umno Youth leader will not be allowed to say anything in his defence.
However, the court also ordered both parties to submit on whether the Khairy's counsel would be allowed to cross-examine witnesses.
In dismissing Khairy's application to appeal the Aug 13 order against him, High Court judge Hue Siew Kheng also ordered Khairy to pay RM30,000 as costs.
According to Anwar's lawyers Sulaiman Abdullah and J Leela, the court found Khairy and his lawyers to have "adopted a cavalier" attitude during the case management of the suit.
"The purpose of case management is for the just and economical disposal of the case. The excuses meted by them in the affidavit to this case are without merit," Justice Hue ruled in chambers.
"They adopted a cavalier and contumelious attitude towards the case," said the judge.
Stay bid rejected
Justice Hue also rejected an application made by Khairy's counsel, Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, for a stay of proceedings and fixed Dec 26 for hearing to begin.
At its last session, Khairy appealed the Aug 13 ruling to preclude him from defending himself after he and his lawyers had, since January this year, contumeliously failed to file the various documents.
The documents included their witness list, statement of agreed facts, statement of dispute and opening statement, which were supposed to be provided to the court before trial.
Shafee said after today's proceedings that he would appeal the decision. Leela indicated they would call Anwar and a Malaysiakini reporter to testify when hearing begins on Dec 26.
Anwar had on March 7, 2008, filed the suit against Khairy, or KJ as he is widely known, for uttering defamatory words against him and causing the posting of a video clip titled ‘Anwar and kin no threat' to be uploaded on websites, including in Malaysiakini. Khairy then was Umno Youth deputy chief
The opposition leader claimed that the video clip on Malaysiakini contained defamatory words spoken by Khairy at a ceramah in Lembah Pantai in Kuala Lumpur on Feb 20, 2008.
Khairy, in his statement of defence filed on Oct 8, 2010, said he relied on the defence of justification and qualified privilege.
On Aug 9, the Court of Appeal ordered the case to proceed for trial after Khairy failed to get the suit summarily struck out.-malaysiakini
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