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Saturday, May 2, 2015

TIME TO GIVE IGP FIRE: Ambiga to fight ‘ridiculous’ detentions over anti-GST rally

TIME TO GIVE IGP FIRE: Ambiga to fight ‘ridiculous’ detentions over anti-GST rally
KUALA LUMPUR - Fresh from her release after police failed to remand her further, Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan today condemned the three-day detention orders for 29 people arrested for taking part in yesterday’s May Day rally to protest the Goods and Services Tax (GST).
The former co-chair of Bersih and patron of Negaru-ku who was detained overnight along with DAP MP Anthony Loke and PSM secretary-general S. Arutchelvan, also said it was unnecessary for the police to have kept them so long and seek to remand them.
“It is time the police start respecting our right to liberty and start respecting the fact that liberty is precious. You do not take it away from anyone even for one minute if you don’t have to.
“And the very fact that they are unable to show circumstances to justify for the remand shows you, in fact, they acted without real basis in detaining us overnight,” she told reporters outside the Jinjang police lock-up after her release.
The three were released with PAS central committee member Dr Mohd Hatta Ramli at about 2.45pm after a three-hour remand hearing there.
According to the police, 32 people including Ambiga, Loke and Arutchelvan were arrested over the protest.
Yesterday, KL CID chief Senior Asst Comm Zainuddin Ahmad said the arrests were carried out at 7.30pm — over two hours after the rally ended — and confirmed police had seized several smoke bombs.
Today, Ambiga said the groups of protesters were brought into the Dang Wangi district police headquarters last night were “handcuffed and chained”, adding that it was “ridiculous” that the police were granted the three-day remand order.
“They are youngsters in this country and we owe it to them to find out why it is they are treated the way that they were treated and we owe it to them to ensure they are not treated like criminals even before a case has been made against them,” she said.
She also pointed the irony of the mass arrests from the peaceful May Day rally, when no individual was arrested over “grand larceny going on before our very eyes”. She did not specify what she was referring to with grand larceny.
The arrests, she said, showed that the workers are not allowed to gather and complain about the newly implemented goods and services tax (GST) and several other issues mentioned.
“Datuk Seri Anwar said he will never surrender, Datuk Seri Najib said he will never surrender, let me tell you now, the rakyat will never surrender this country to thieves, robbers, and grasping megalomaniacs.
“We will fight to retrieve it from the jaws of moral death, we will never surrender our fundamental liberties to anyone,” she said. - Malay Mail

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