Malaysia: Prominent Rights activist Probes over Organizing Bersih 4
Event- Country
- Malaysia
- Initial Date
- Sep 17, 2015
- Event Description
PETALING JAYA: Prominent lawyer and activist Ambiga Sreenevasan has described the police's decision to investigate her for her involvement in organising the Bersih 4 rally in August, a "ridiculous" move on their part. Speaking to reporters in front of the Petaling Jaya Police Headquarters today where she was asked to present herself, the former Malaysian Bar president said that the police's attention should be focused on other more pressing matters instead. "To me this whole thing of calling up people for wearing T-shirts, the Bersih 4 T-shirts, is really quite ridiculous given the other issues that are plaguing the nation at this point. She added that she will be filing for a review of the gazette under the Printing Press and Publications Act (PPA) 1984 that was used to declare the Bersih 4 yellow T-shirts illegal. "I can say this, I will be challenging that gazette notification, I will be talking to my lawyers about it to put an end to this nonsense," she said. PKR's Elizabeth Wong and former Kapar MP S Manikavasagam were also called in by the police for questioning. They too were being represented by lawyer Latheefa Koya, who said that the trio were being investigated under Section 8 of the PPA. Last week, Ambiga questioned the police's decision to declare Bersih 4 illegal, saying she was "not convinced" that the police had the right to do such a thing. "Do they actually have the power to declare something illegal? I'm not sure that they can. If they want to go around declaring anything illegal, I want to know what law is being breached," Ambiga said at a forum last week.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Woman
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of assembly
- Right to information
- Right to political participation
- HRD
- Lawyer
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 4.210483999999973
Longitude: 101.975766
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 17 September 2015, Prominent lawyer and activist Ms. Ambiga Sreenevasan was asked to present herself at the Petalng Jaya Police station for interrogation over her involvement in organizing the Berish 4 rally in August.