Pakatan Rakyat elected representatives are proposing to table an emergency motion in Parliament to force the release of their colleague, PSM's Sungai Siput MP D Jeyakumar, currently being remanded by Penang police.
“We want him released immediately. It is not appropriate for the arrest under such unsubstantiated grounds, to prevent him from discharging his duty to the people that elected him,” said PAS Kuala Krai parliamentarian Hatta Ramli.
He was speaking to reporters during a press conference by Pakatan elected representatives in support of the 30 PSM activists, including Jeyamumar, who were arrested on board a bus at the Sungai Dua toll plaza near Kepala Batas, Penang, while participating in the northern leg of PSM's 'Udahlah tu' roadshow.
Deputy Penang police chief Abdul Rahim Jaafar announced last Sunday that the 30 were being remanded and are beinginvestigated under Section 122 of the Penal Code on the charge of “waging war against the King”.
Police are arguing that the presence of t-shirts in the PSM convoy bearing the likeness of communist leaders like Chin Peng, Rashid Maidin and Suriani Abdullah is proof positive that they are propagating the communist ideology and trying to turn the rakyat against the government.
PSM and the Pakatan MPs are refuting the veracity of the police charge, seeing it as a witch hunt for supporters of the upcoming Bersih 2.0 electoral reform rally.
“The roadshow is a polite way of telling BN it is time for to step down. It has nothing to do with Bersih. But we also talk about the issues of the rakyat and Bersih is one of the issues affecting the rakyat. But we are targeted because we are supporters of Bersih,” argued the socialist party's secretary-general S Arutchelvan at the same press conference.
The motion to be tabled under Standing Order 18(1), if approved by the speaker, will be tabled on Thursday after the mandatory two-day notification to the Parliament office.
Under the Standing Order, an emergency motion will only be allowed it if the matter is specific, urgent and of public interest. - Malaysiakini
“We want him released immediately. It is not appropriate for the arrest under such unsubstantiated grounds, to prevent him from discharging his duty to the people that elected him,” said PAS Kuala Krai parliamentarian Hatta Ramli.
He was speaking to reporters during a press conference by Pakatan elected representatives in support of the 30 PSM activists, including Jeyamumar, who were arrested on board a bus at the Sungai Dua toll plaza near Kepala Batas, Penang, while participating in the northern leg of PSM's 'Udahlah tu' roadshow.
Deputy Penang police chief Abdul Rahim Jaafar announced last Sunday that the 30 were being remanded and are beinginvestigated under Section 122 of the Penal Code on the charge of “waging war against the King”.
Police are arguing that the presence of t-shirts in the PSM convoy bearing the likeness of communist leaders like Chin Peng, Rashid Maidin and Suriani Abdullah is proof positive that they are propagating the communist ideology and trying to turn the rakyat against the government.PSM and the Pakatan MPs are refuting the veracity of the police charge, seeing it as a witch hunt for supporters of the upcoming Bersih 2.0 electoral reform rally.
“The roadshow is a polite way of telling BN it is time for to step down. It has nothing to do with Bersih. But we also talk about the issues of the rakyat and Bersih is one of the issues affecting the rakyat. But we are targeted because we are supporters of Bersih,” argued the socialist party's secretary-general S Arutchelvan at the same press conference.
The motion to be tabled under Standing Order 18(1), if approved by the speaker, will be tabled on Thursday after the mandatory two-day notification to the Parliament office.
Under the Standing Order, an emergency motion will only be allowed it if the matter is specific, urgent and of public interest. - Malaysiakini
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