• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • RSS
  • Archives
  • Subscribe
The Nut Graph

The Nut Graph

Making Sense of Politics & Pop Culture

  • Projects
    • MP Watch
    • Found in Conversation
  • Current Issues
    • 6 Words
    • Commentary
    • Features
    • Found in Quotation
    • News
  • Columns
  • Interviews
    • Exclusives
    • Found in Malaysia
  • Multimedia
    • Audio
    • Pictures
    • Videos
  • Corrections
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Vault
    • Found in Translation

DAP wants to meet Hishammuddin

By Zedeck Siew

May 12, 2009

PETALING JAYA, 12 May 2009: DAP has requested for a meeting with Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein to ask him to revoke the conditions that have been imposed on recently released Hindraf leaders.

“If [the Hindraf leaders] are ‘no more a threat to the country’ in the eyes of the home minister, then why have restrictive, unjust and undemocratic conditions been imposed on them?” said DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang in a press conference at the party headquarters today.

Lim said the restrictions imposed on M Manoharan, K Vasantha Kumar, P Uthayakumar, V Ganabatirau and R Kengadharan denied them the right to be treated as free and equal Malaysians.

Manoharan, who is Kota Alam Shah assemblyperson, Uthayakumar and Vasanthakumar were released from the Kamunting detention camp on 9 May. Ganabatirau and Kengadharan were released on 5 April.

Manoharan has since revealed that he is expected to follow six conditions following his release, until 13 Dec. These are:

1) He must live within the “Klang police district”.

2) He cannot change his residential address without written permission from the Selangor police chief.

3) He is not allowed to leave Klang without written permission from the Selangor police chief.

4) He must constantly inform the police of his whereabouts.

5) He must report to the Klang police station every Monday, between 8am and 5pm, until 13 Dec 2009.

6) He must work to maintain peace and stability in the country, and maintain good behaviour.

Manoharan, who was also at the press conference today, has since breached these conditions several times, most notably when he visited the Selangor state assembly building on 11 May.

“These restrictions are unconstitutional, as it contradicts my freedom of movement as a Malaysian citizen, under Article 9 of the Federal Constitution,” Manoharan said.

Article 9 says that “every citizen has the right to move freely throughout the Federation”, subject to laws pertaining to security, public order, public health, or the punishment of offenders.

“I intend to file a civil suit to have these restrictions declared null and void,” Manoharan said.

This action comes on top of the assemblyperson’s planned RM100 million suit against the home minister, federal government, and others over his 18-month “unlawful detention” under the Internal Security Act.

“The Home Minister’s restrictions are preventing me from performing my duties as a state assemblyperson,” Manoharan said, adding that he intended to move to Klang to better serve his constituency.

Lim said he would also raise the subject of lifting the ban on Hindraf when he meets Hishammuddin. Hindraf was declared an illegal organisation in October last year by then Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar.

“If the Home Ministry now holds that the five Hindraf leaders are no more a threat to the country, surely the same judgement must apply to Hindraf,” Lim said.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)

Related Stories

Filed Under: News Tagged With: assemblyperson, conditions, dap, Hindraf, Hishammuddin Hussein, home minister, ISA, K Vasantha Kumar, Kota Alam Shah, Lim Kit Siang, M Manoharan, P Uthayakumar, police, R Kengadharan, Selangor, V Ganabatirau

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. ipoh mali says

    May 14, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    That’s why Uthayakumar refused to leave his cell.

    If you want to release someone from ISA, you don’t make him sign all this nonsense.

    I wonder why the other four Hindraf guns signed the condition letters?

    Should have followed Uthaya. Very proud of him.

Primary Sidebar

Search

Twitter

My Tweets

Recent Comments

  • Wave33 on The Nut Graph stops publication
  • Adam on The Nut Graph stops publication
  • PSTan on The Nut Graph stops publication
  • PSTan on The Nut Graph stops publication
  • Andre Lai on The Nut Graph stops publication

Recent News

  • The Nut Graph stops publication
  • Nasihat tentang sepupu yang mengganggu perasaan
  • Uncommon Sense with Wong Chin Huat: The Sunni-Shia split and the answer to Muslim unity
  • Why Malaysia needs the national unity bills
  • Challenging government in the digital age: Lessons from Kidex
  • Najib’s failure
  • Babi, anjing, pondan: Jijik orang Islam Malaysia
  • Kidex and the law – What the government’s not telling you
  • Beyond Dyana Sofya
  • Uncommon Sense with Wong Chin Huat: Does Malaysia need hate speech laws?

Tags

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Anwar Ibrahim Barisan Nasional BN Bukit Selambau by-election dap Deborah Loh Ding Jo-Ann Election Commission elections Found in Malaysia Found in Quotation Gan Pei Ling government high court Hishammuddin Hussein ISA islam Jacqueline Ann Surin Khairy Jamaluddin KW Mak Lim Guan Eng Malaysia MCA Menteri Besar MP Watch Muhyiddin Yassin muslim Najib Razak Pakatan Rakyat Parliament Parti Keadilan Rakyat pas Penang Perak PKR police politics prime minister Selangor Shanon Shah Umno Wong Chin Huat Zedeck Siew

Footer

  • About The Nut Graph
  • Who Are We?
  • Our Contributors
  • Past Contributors
  • Guest Contributors
  • Editorial Policy
  • Comments & Columns
  • Copyright Policy
  • Web Accessibility Policy
  • Privacy Policy
The Nut Graph

© 2023 The Nut Graph