Nurul Izzah Anwar

PERMATANG PAUH, MALAYSIA, 26 Ogos 20008

Allah memberikan kita kejayaan. Kemenangan ini merupakan saat penentu dan bakal menentukan hala tuju negara ini.

Saya berkongsi kegembiraan yang dirasai oleh semua rakyat Malaysia pada hari bersejarah ini. Ianya merupakan kemenangan buat rakyat.

Pada 8 Mac rakyat Malaysia memilih Harapan Baru. Hari ini di saat kita bakal menyambut hari kemerdekaan, rakyat menyahut seruan tersebut. Dengan ini kita merayakant hari kemerdekaan sepertimana pendiri-pendiri negara kita inginkan-sebuah negara dan rakyat yang bersatu.

Berhadapan dengan cabaran yang getir, kita memilih untuk menumpukan perhatian kepada isu yang berkaitan dengan negara ini. Seruan kita agar negara ini bersatu, mulai mengamalkan urus tadbir yang baik dan memperkasakan ekonomi telah menguburkan kempen yang berbaur perkauman, cita-cita individu yang sering mendapat habuan hasil dari penyalahgunaan kuasa dan eksploitasi politik yang berasaskan ketakutan serta penipuan.

Kami telah menjanjikan satu lembaran baru untuk Malaysia dan kami pasti akan melaksanakan janji kami. Kami akan melaksanakan Agenda Ekonomi Malaysia untuk memulihkan keadaan eknomi kita, membasmi kemiskinan dan membantu sesiapa sahaja yang terpinggir tanpa berasaskan kaum. Kami akan memulihkan intergriti badan kehakiman, memerangi rasuah dan membina sebuah negara yang bersatu.

Dan kami akan menjadi sebuah kerajaan yang komited untuk merealisasikan aspirasi rakyat.

Dengan kejayaan 8 Mac dan juga kemenangan malam ini saya berani untuk menegaskan kita mampu bersama-sama menghadapi segala rintangan di masa hadapan.

Kami tidak akan menang tanpa dokongan kukuh dari rakan-rakan kami dalam Pakatan Rakyat dan juga sokongan ribuan rakyat Malaysia tidak kira samada Melayu, Cina, India, Iban, Kadazan, yang datang ke Permatang Pauh, bekerja keras, memerah keringat serta mengirim doa demi memastikan kemenangan ini. Saya sangat menghargai keberanian, tekad dan kesungguhan kamu semua; saya mengucapkan tahniah terhadap komitmen saudara semua terhadap prinsip bersama sebuah kemerdekaan, keadilan dan demokrasi.

Langkah kecil buat Permatang Pauh hari ini akan memastikan perubahan besar buat Malaysia.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PERMATANG PAUH, MALAYSIA, 26 AUGUST 2008

We won!  And our victory is decisive and overwhelming.

I share in the joy felt by all Malaysians on this historic day.   This is a victory for the people. And it’s great to be back!

On March 8th Malaysians voted for a New Dawn. Today, on the eve of our independence day, we have reasserted that call.  We celebrate our nation’s independence in the spirit that our founding fathers intended - a nation of one and a people united.

In the face of the greatest adversity, our campaign focused on the issues that matter to Malaysians.  Our calls for national unity, good governance and a vibrant democracy have silenced the voices of racist chanting, those who profit from the abuse of power and exploit the politics of fear and deceit.

We have promised a New Dawn for Malaysia and we will deliver on our promise.  We will forge ahead on our Malaysian Economic Agenda to revive the economy, and to uplift the poor and the marginalized of all races.  We will restore the integrity of the judiciary, fight corruption and build a truly unified nation.

We will be a government that is totally committed to realizing the people’s aspirations.

With the success of the eight of March and tonight’s resounding victory, I daresay we are indeed ready to face the challenges of the future, together.

We could not have won without the firm, unwavering support of our friends in the Pakatan Rakyat and the tens of thousands of Malaysians – Malays, Chinese, Indians, Ibans, Kadhazans - who have come to Permatang Pauh to work hard for this victory. I truly appreciate your courage, conviction and valour; and congratulate your commitment to our shared principles of freedom, justice and democracy.

This may be one small step for Permatang Pauh but one giant leap for the people of Malaysia.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

PRESS RELEASE

Electoral fraud has been a serious impediment to democracy in Malaysia for many years.  The evidence of electoral fraud has been widely documented and reported in the media in the 2004, 2006 and 2008 Malaysian elections.

Examples include vote buying, phantom voters, multiple voting, and rampant abuse of postal voting.  Postal vote fraud, we believe was the primary reason behind Pakatan Rakyat losing 1 or 2 Parliamentary seats in March.

Electoral fraud also include the intimidation of voters the manipulation of the mainstream media and preventing equal access and coverage to opposition political parties. Utusan Malaysia is a good example of how the government uses the media instruments at its disposal to spread confusion and to disparage and defame leaders in the opposition, including our Permatang Pauh candidate Anwar Ibrahim. Recent headlines have misquoted Pakatan Leaders’s statements about Anwar Ibrahim and wrongfully accused him of activities that would undermine his position with voters. Pakatan Rakyat initiated a boycott of Ututsan Malaysia earlier this year for this reason.

The Elegant Advisory scandal of RM 218 million in unpaid printing expenses by the Barisan Nasional in 2004 illustrates another example of electoral fraud as well as the criminal negligence of the Election Commission in ensuring the free and fair conduct of elections.

RM 218 million is more than the total amount of money that is legally permissible to be spent on an election by more than double.  A simple walk around Permatang Pauh would give any observer reason to suspect similar breach of the Election laws by the Barisan Nasional in this by-election.  Expenditures on printing aside, we call upon Barisan to account for the millions more spent on paying people to post materials, paying to bring workers from around the country to work in Penang.

We are particularly concerned about the concerted effort to decrease voter turnout in this coming election.  The scheduling of polling day on Tuesday, the first time in history that a polling date was set on a weekday.

We are also aware of money being paid to PP voters to dissuade them from going to the polls or to preoccupy them with other activities such as shopping so that they will not vote on August 26th. We also know that some individuals are having their IC’s photocopies under the ruse that this is necessary for UMNO workers to document their campaign work.  We condemn this activity in the strongest terms.  Photocopying of ICs is clearly an act of intimidation whereby voters would feel they are being monitored by the government. Furhtermore it is a monitoring mechanism that could be used to position phantom voters on election day.

We have therefore called for the proper use of indelible inks in this by-election to prevent some of the electoral fraud.

We know the Election Commission, working under the instructions of the Prime Minister’s office, will do little to address our concerns. We therefore call upon voters to be vigilant in protecting their democratic rights, monitoring and reporting abuses to the authorities.

Dato’ Salehuddin Hashim
Secretary General
Parti Keadilan Rakyat

20th August 2008

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Press Statement
18 July 2008

Raja Petra’s criminal defamation: The AG’s Chambers cannot be both the complainant and prosecutor

I wish to express my extreme concern regarding the criminal defamation charge of Raja Petra Kamaruddin, prominent webmaster of news portal Malaysia Today on 17 July 2008. The charge arose from Raja Petra’s statutory declaration which stated among others that Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’ wife Rosmah Mansor was involved in the murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu. In May, Raja Petra was charged with sedition for making similar accusations in an article which he wrote on the website.

This criminal defamation charge which carries a punishment of up to 2 years’ imprisonment is clearly another attempt to intimidate and quell dissidents and government critics like Raja Petra from exposing the wrong doings and criminal activities of high level government officials and their family members. Criminal defamation is an archaic and odious law, a relic from the British Empire. This offence no longer exists or at least had fallen into disuse in many modern and democratic states.

Rosmah has already said that she does not wish to take any action against Raja Petra. Therefore, I am extremely appalled to discover that the AG’s Chambers seemed to have acted as the complainant in this case and have taken this highly questionable recourse of criminal prosecution when there appeared to have been no police report lodged by any of the aggrieved parties. Even if Rosmah or anyone else are aggrieved, the proper recourse is for them to file a civil defamation suit. The state machinery has no place is such disputes.

Further, the Attorney General himself is currently under investigation by the ACA for serious allegations of fabricating and suppressing evidence in the assault of Anwar Ibrahim by former IGP Rahim Noor. This calls for his immediate suspension pending the outcome of the ACA investigation and he certainly should not be involved in any further questionable prosecutions.

I would like to remind the Attorney General that the AG’s Chambers is a public institution and not a personal arm of the government or high level officials to be misused for political intimidation and attack against opponents. The AG’s Chambers has fallen into serious disrepute over the last 2 decades with well founded accusations of selective and politically motivated prosecutions.

I therefore object in the strongest terms the continuing misuse of the AG’s Chambers and demand the immediate withdrawal of the criminal charges against Raja Petra.(end)

Salehuddin Hashim
Secretary General
Parti Keadilan Rakyat

—PRESS STATEMENT — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE —

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 18 July 2008

Statements being made by senior government officials raise concerns as to the credible dispensation of the law, and suggest that a political conspiracy is very much at play in smearing the credibility and reputation of our client. They are making statements imputing that Anwar Ibrahim is not cooperating with the police.

We are referring, as an example, to the comments made by Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar reported on the front page of the New Straits Times, page three of the Star and covered in other printed and electronic media. Syed Hamid should know better than to attempt to exert his influence on this matter. As a Cabinet Member, Syed Hamid’s comments are tantamount to interfering in an ongoing investigation. He is quoted as saying “What is he afraid of? He can have his own doctor present when giving the sample.”

Besides being an inappropriate interference in the investigation, these comments show a fundamental misunderstanding of the concerns we are raising regarding the introduction of DNA evidence. In 1998-1999 trials, Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim experienced the phenomenon of fabrication of DNA evidence. We had SAC Rodwan illegally removing DNA samples from forensic custody. In cross examination of the prosecution’s witnesses it was exposed that DNA taken from blood samples was planted on the infamous mattress. When confronted with this fact the prosecution amended its charge and persuaded the judge, Augustine Paul, to expunge the entire DNA evidence from the record,preventing Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s lawyers from responding.

The persons who were implicated in the fabrication of evidence during Dato Seri Anwar’s 1998-1999 trails, namely Gani Patail, Musa Hassan, and Rodwan are the same players who are involved in the current case. Today they are in much more powerful positions within the law enforcement apparatus. Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim has even more reason to believe of the probability that DNA evidence will be fabricated once again. This is reasonable because the complainant remains in police custody since 28 June 2008 and the police are also in possession of Anwar Ibrahim’s DNA from the earlier case. Our client’s concerns are therefore not resolved, as Syed Hamid believes, by his handing over a DNA sample through his own doctor or through an international forensic expert. It would have to be independently verified first that all medical examinations and sample taking relating to the complainant were done professionally and without any interference from the police before Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim will consider participating in any DNA analysis.

We also reiterate that there has yet to be any credible justification for resorting to DNA analyses when the police report made by the complainant remains shrouded in secrecy and no evidence substantiating the allegations are made available.

It is also false to imply that Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim was not cooperating with the police. He agreed to meet with police at a prearranged date and time. He then gave a lengthy, five hour statement, consented and voluntarily submitted to a strip search and measurements of his private parts, contrary to the unnamed sources cited in the New Straits Times today on page six. We would also reiterate that he made that lengthy statement even though he could have exercised his rights within the law to have remained completely silent as the contents of the complainant’s police report were not made known to him.

SIVARASA RASIAH
COUNSEL TO DATO SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA; JULY 17, 2008

On Saturday, 12-07-2008, the police came to my house to serve a Section 111 Criminal Procedure Code notice, harassing my family and demanding my presence at the IPK Kuala Lumpur (Federal Territories Police headquarters) at 2pm on Monday, 14-07-2008 despite an earlier agreement with my lawyers for me to come to the IPK on Monday 14-07-2008. On the next day, Sunday, the police also served an ex-parte court order, prohibiting me from physically being within 5 km from the Parliament on Monday 14-07-2008. As you can see, my house and the IPK KL are within 5 km radius from the parliament building. The court order effectively put me under house arrest on Monday and at the same time prevented me from going to the IPK.

On Monday, 14-07-2008, the presence of police personnel outside the compound of my house strengthened our suspicions that they would be prepared to arrest me as soon as I left the compound of my residence, on the pretext of me violating the court order. The issue here, is which order should I comply with, the ex-parte court order or the Section 111 notice from the police?

On the same day, the police through the Investigating Officer, one DSP Jude Pereira wrote and faxed to my lawyer at about 1.06pm, informing that I was required to be present at the IPK KL on Wednesday, 16-07-2008 at 2.00 pm to assist with the investigation. I conveyed my agreement to the appointment and it was communicated to the police through my solicitor, Messrs S.N Nair and Partners via telephone and letter on the same day.

On Wednesday, 16-07-2008, I was at the Anti Corruption Agency (BPR) head office to record my statement pursuant to the police report lodged by me at IPK Shah Alam on 01-07-2008, against the Attorney General Gani Patail and the Inspector General of Police Musa Hassan for their involvement in the fabrication of evidence way back in 1998. To ensure that we will be able to attend the appointment with the police at 2pm, we cut short our statement at the BPR’s office, and this fact was clearly conveyed to the BPR officers present.

At about 12.45 pm, the IO, DSP Jude Pereira called Mr Nair to confirm about our attendance and Mr. Nair confirmed that we would attend that 2pm appointment. We were about to have a quick lunch at my house before proceeding to the IPK. 5 minutes later, we were ambushed by a team of masked and heavily armed police personnel near my house.

I was arrested and brought to the IPK. I cooperated fully with the police by giving my cautioned statement from 2.30 pm to about 7.30 pm. At this particular point, the IO and the other officers handling this case were doing their job professionally. I was then given assurances by Assistant Commissioner of Police Razali and later Senior Assistant Commissioner II Khor (through my lawyer) that I would be released on police bail on the same day.

However, later on, upon my return from Kuala Lumpur General Hospotal (HKL), the IO, DSP Jude Pereira informed me and my lawyers that I will be detained and put in the police lock-up overnight for the purpose of recording a further statement in the morning.

I and my lawyers protested, giving our undertaking that we will be back anytime required by the police to continue with the recording of the statement, and there was no need for me to be detained overnight, and that I should be released on police bail. The police, through the IO were adamant that I should be detained and put in the police lock-up overnight, despite them knowing about my physical condition. I had to spend the night sleeping on a cold cement floor, which aggravated my back injury which was due to the beating I received from the then IGP, Tan Sri Rahim Nor on 20th September, 1998.

This morning, after a short statement that was recorded for about 30 minutes, I was released on police bail. I was in pain and had to immediately receive some medical treatment upon my return home.

I now wish to deal with the statement of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Director, Dato Mohd Bakri Mohd Zinin as appeared in Utusan Malaysia today, inter alia

“Pasukan khas bertopeng polis terpaksa memintas kenderaan DSAI di Bukit Segambut di sini dan menahan Anwar ekoran tindakan Penasihat PKR itu mengubah haluan kenderaannya pada saat-saat tempoh yang diberi kepadanya untuk menyerah diri kepada polis pada pukul 2 petang ini hampir berakhir”

This is a blatant lie from the CID director to cover up their shameful act of abuse of police powers. I have given the assurances and had just informed the IO 5 minutes before the disgraceful ambush by the police through my lawyer who was with me in the same car.

In addition to the above, the Deputy Home Minister, Wan Farid said, as reported in Star Online that, I “went voluntarily to the police car without any incident.” Again, this is also a blatant lie by the government.

I take to task the IGP for this abuse of police power against me through the events I’ve narrated above. It appears that the events of the last few days, the nature of my unwarranted arrest, my overnight incarceration which was actually absolutely unnecessary, were an act of personal vengeance against me in retaliation to the reports I lodged earlier against him, which are now being investigated by the ACA.

DNA

I have reasonable grounds for having no confidence in the system. In the course of the trial of the false allegations of sodomy in 1998, DNA evidence was fabricated and used against me. The persons responsible for the fabrication then were the IGP, SAC Rodwan and the AG, are new key players in this investigation.

Until now, I have been denied access to the police report made by the accuser against me.

My accuser is still under police protection and as such, any fabrication is possible if they take my DNA.  My decision to refuse a DNA test is taken through advice of my lawyers and DNA experts, both local and overseas.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

Alhamdulillah ayah telah dilepaskan. Terima kasih atas sokongan yang diberikan. Amat menenangkan mengetahui begitu ramai bimbang mengenai Negara dan ayah.

Saya ingin meminta maaf terlebih dahulu kerana tidak dapat membalas setiap mesej, emel,komen atau mesej Facebook tetapi saya ingin memberitahu di sini bahawa saya sekeluarga berterima kasih ke atas sokongan anda.

Kekuatan suara rakyat membenarkan Ayah, Ibu, Saya dan adik-adik tersayang untuk terus berjuang untuk Rakyat dan Negara.

Sekarang, selepas ayah, Raja Petra pula memerlukan sokongan anda.

Wasallam,

Izzah

Alhamdulillah dad was released. Thank you all for your kind words of support. It assuring to know so many of you are concerned and worried about our nation and my dad as I am.

I apologise for not being able to personally reply each and every message, email, comment, or Facebook message but do know I appreciate each and every one of them.

Dad, Mom, I and the family thank every one of you for your kind support, prayers and continued perseverance. Your strength fuels us to go on fighting for Malaysia and the Rakyat.

Now lets fight for RPK.

Wassalam,

Izzah

Mimpi ngeri berulang lagi..

Kira-kira jam 12.45 tgh tadi, ketika saya menanti kepulangan DSAI untuk kami bersama menemani beliau ke IPK Kula Lumpur, kami telah dikejutkan dengan berita bahawa beliau telah ditahan kurang 50 meter dari rumah kami oleh Polis yang datang bersama Unit Tindakan Khas (UTK), lengkap bersenjata dan bertopeng ala komando. Igauan ngeri peristiwa hitam tahun 1998 berulang lagi. DSAI dilayan seperti penjenayah terrorist. Kerisauan dan kegusaran kami sekeluarga terhadap keselamatan DSAI kini sampai pada puncaknya. Tiada siapa antara kami yang tahu apa akan terjadi seterusnya. Saya seru teman-teman untuk bersama mendoakan keselamatan DSAI pejuang rakyat yang tidak pernah kenal erti putus. Umpama lilin yang membakar diri…

Dad was arrested by the cops whilst on his way to the IPK to give his statement. The cops gave till 2pm for dad to report but still arrested him before the deadline. Dad was on his way back home to have lunch in Bukit Segambut, and then head to the IPK but the cops blocked off the road and arrested him like a criminal. And the cops who arrested him were Special Squad cops with balaclavas!!! Is that necessary!!!

I hope and pray for our nation today. I ask all Malaysians to be calm but strong in this event. I truly do believe our nation’s future rests on what happens in the next weeks.

Please please do not give the authorities any reason to crack down on us. Let us do everything by the book and do what’s right.

And most of all, please pray.

Izzah

Update - Now I hear Raja Petra is going to be arrested as well!

Namun terdapat ini,

Tetapi Rakyat masih dapat menjayakan ini.

dan ini.

Terima kasih kepada Tian Chua, Saifuddin Nasution, Dr Hatta Ramli, Ronnie Liu, Gobalakrishna dan Raja Petra kerana dapat hadir.

 Lihat lagi di Album Flickr. - Thanks Khairiah!