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Posted by nkkhoo on 4th February, 2013
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Muslims in Malaysia must protest against BN government in violating international human rights protocol by sending Uighur asyleum seekers to China.
The fate of these Muslim refugees is uncertain under a pariah nation, mostly they will be jailed for at least 20 years by China kangaroo court or being executed in the public.
Najib’s administration will do anything to please China Communist regime because Malaysia desperately needs the investment capital from China after the Westerner nations have no longer to see Malaysia is a haven for cheap labor investment projects.
Malaysia: Stop Forced Returns to China
More Uighur Asylum Seekers Denied Basic Protections
“While Malaysians were celebrating the New Year, their government was forcibly returning Uighur asylum seekers to a dangerously uncertain fate in China. The government has an obligation to explain how this happened, China’s role, and the steps being taken to ensure it doesn’t happen again.”
Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director
(New York) – Malaysia’s secret forced return to China of six Uighurs with pending asylum claims on December 31, 2012, was a grave violation of international law, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the Malaysian government today.
An upcoming February 5 visit to Malaysia by Jia Qinglin, a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party Politburo Standing Committee, will provide Malaysian authorities with an opportunity to publicly state that they will uphold legal protections for refugees.
“While Malaysians were celebrating the New Year, their government was forcibly returning Uighur asylum seekers to a dangerously uncertain fate in China.” said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director. “The government has an obligation to explain how this happened, China’s role, and the steps being taken to ensure it doesn’t happen again.”
Credible sources told Human Rights Watch that the six Uighur men returned to China on December 31 had been detained earlier in 2012 allegedly for attempting to leave Malaysia on false passports. While in detention, they were registered with the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and were permitted to proceed with refugee status determination (RSD) interviews. Although all six had asylum claims being reviewed, Malaysian police clandestinely transferred the men in late December into the custody of Chinese authorities, who escorted them from Malaysia to China on a chartered flight.
Under international law, it is unlawful for any country to return individuals to a place where they are likely to face persecution or torture. The Chinese government frequently accuses ethnic Uighurs, particularly those seeking asylum, of being terrorists or separatists without providing evidence to substantiate such claims. A Uighur forcibly returned to China by Malaysia in 2011, for instance, was sentenced to six years in prison on charges of “separatism.”
“This isn’t the first time the Malaysian government has violated international law on Beijing’s behalf, but it has the chance to make it the last,” Robertson said. “Announcing Malaysia’s commitment to protecting refugees and ratifying the refugee conventions would be a good place to start.”
http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/02/03/malaysia-stop-forced-returns-china
Posted by nkkhoo on 22nd May, 2012
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Posted by nkkhoo on 19th January, 2012
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Maid in Malaysia: a story of beatings, abuse
Lindsay Murdoch
http://www.smh.com.au/world/maid-in-malaysia-a-story-of-beatings-abuse-20120117-1q4ml.html
Cambodian maid Orn Eak, 28, with her son Ho Bora, 5. Orn Eak was abused for almost two years by her Malaysian employer.
BEATEN, starved and treated as a slave in a Kuala Lumpur apartment, Cambodian maid Orn Eak says a one-metre snake ended her almost-two-year nightmare in Malaysia.
”When the snake crawled into my employer’s apartment she blamed me and kicked me out,” says Orn Eak, 28, one of thousands of Cambodian domestic workers who have been exploited and abused in Malaysia. ”I got the blame for everything, including the death of my employer’s elderly mother,” she says.
Orn Eak’s body is covered in scars from beatings by a Kuala Lumpur woman who employed her through a Cambodia employment agency in early 2010. Single with a five-year-old son, Orn Eak says she joined 30,000 other young Cambodian women and girls working as maids in Malaysia because her mother was struggling to survive in their village in Kompong Thom province.
In Kuala Lumpur, Orn Eak had no days off and worked from dawn into the early hours of the next morning caring for her employer’s disabled mother. She says she was frequently beaten and often hungry.
The mistreatment worsened after the old woman died in hospital. ”I missed my son and mother very much, but I knew I had to keep working for them,” she says.
But her mother, Ee Tha, 55, says she received only two payments in almost two years from her daughter’s Malaysian employer totalling $US270 ($A262). The employer deducted Orn Eak’s flight home from her salary, which was supposed to be $US180 a month.
When Orn Eak arrived back in Phnom Penh in November a woman picked her up at the airport and took her to the employment agency.
”I told the story about the snake to a director … Five men came into the room and beat me … they pushed my head into a glass door and kicked me on the ground,” she says.
Ee Tha received a message to come to Phnom Penh to take her daughter home.
”When I saw that my daughter’s face and body were cut and bruised my heart dropped,” Ee Tha says. After Ee Tha refused to leave the employment agency’s office with her daughter until she was given the money she was owed, a director finally handed over $1200 – meaning Orn Eak earned only $1470 for nearly two years’ work, half what had been promised.
Social workers have verified her claims of abuse. Nine Cambodian domestic workers died in Malaysia in 2011, according to human rights organisations.
Malaysian opposition MP Charles Santiago has accused the Malaysian government and police of ”totally disrespecting” laws by conducting only cursory investigations into the deaths.
Human Rights Watch says common abuses include excessive work hours with no rest days, lack of food and irregular or non-payment of salaries.
Many have reported sexual abuse, restrictions of movements and bans on contact with other maids.
A Cambodian government ban on sending maids to Malaysia has been ignored by unscrupulous recruitment agencies.
Posted by nkkhoo on 9th January, 2012
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Posted by nkkhoo on 5th January, 2012
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The correct question is Malaysian police is capable and professional to maintain public order?
Demonstrators got no power to maintain public order under the law.
If any demonstrator disturbs public order, arrest him or her accordingly.
If any provocateur from other factions like Perkasa, UMNO, etc. disturbs PR peaceful demonstration, also arrest him/her accordingly.
Hisham, stop asking such silly question, maintaining security and public order is the job of police, not the organizer for any demonstration.
Can 901 organisers ensure peace, asks Hisham
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/257221
Hemananthani Sivanandam
PUTRAJAYA (Jan 4, 2012): The organisers of the 901-Free Anwar Campaign planned for Monday must guarantee that the gathering will be peaceful, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said.
Speaking to reporters after the first post-cabinet meeting for the year, he stressed that safety and public order must be maintained for the security of the people.
“It is highly likely that the organisers will have to convince the police that whatever it is they are planning to do will not affect the people’s safety and public order.
“Even if they plan to assemble, it has to be in line with what is in the spirit of the recently passed Peaceful Assembly Bill 2011,” he said at his ministry here today.
He said the police are fully prepared and capable to handle whatever eventualities during the gathering.
“In fact, they were fully prepared during the Bersih 2 gathering (on July 9 last year) also, but we have learnt a few things since then,” he added.
Among others, he said, the police have learnt of the importance to keep watch on the ground, have recordings, ensure the CCTVs are working and ensure people do not exploit the situation.
“There is also the need to engage foreign missions and the media,” Hishammuddin said.
PKR deputy president Azmin Ali had announced on Tuesday that the Pakatan Rakyat will be mobilising 100,000-plus people in support of federal opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on Monday.
The 901-Free Anwar Campaign is being held to coincide when with the High Court delivering its verdict in the sodomy II trial of Anwar.
More than 300 police reports have been lodged against the planned gathering.
While acknowledging that organisers of the event have not applied for a permit thus far, Hishammuddin said the police plan to meet the organisers.
Meanwhile, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar who was also present at the press conference, said he has instructed the Kuala Lumpur police chief to meet the organisers.
“The main issue is public peace and safety. I feel that all parties are responsible for this, including those who want to have the gathering. We are monitoring the situation every day and we will act based on the country’s law and orders,” Ismail said.
Asked if there will be roadblocks or a lockdown of the city on Monday, Ismail said the police are monitoring the situation.
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