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Kongsi pengalaman penjara di kedai gunting rambut Tarikh kemaskini: 31/12/2019

Pahang

Oleh Siti Salwa Shaari

KUANTAN, 31 Dis -- "Abang duduk penjara?". Ini merupakan antara soalan paling kerap

diterima Ali setiap kali menggunting rambut pelanggan di Pusat Inkubator Usahawan My Pride

Jabatan Penjara Pahang di Sungai Isap di sini.

Ali, 38, yang sudah lali dengan pertanyaan itu tidak melenting, sebaliknya melihatnya sebagai

peluang untuk berkongsi pengalaman supaya kesilapan silamnya tidak diulangi individu lain,

terutamanya golongan muda.

"Bukan hanya budak-budak, malah orang dewasa juga sentiasa hendak tahu bagaimana kehidupan

di penjara... inilah peluang saya bercerita kerana banyak perkara yang kita akan terlepas bila sudah

ke penjara.

"Saya sendiri, akibat ganja kehilangan masa selama 10 tahun dan selalunya, orang paling ngeri

bila saya berkongsi pengalaman dirotan 10 kali selain kepayahan perlu berkongsi sel dengan

kumpulan individu tidak dikenali," katanya semasa ditemui Bernama di sini, hari ini.

Ali amat bersyukur kerana berpeluang mempelajari kemahiran menggunting rambut sejak Januari

2019 sebelum memohon untuk ditempatkan di Pusat Pemilihan Pemasyarakatan Kem Batu 10 di

sini, sebagai Orang Diselia (ODS).

Katanya kedai kecil dengan tiga kerusi berwarna hitam itu membolehkan dia merasai pengalaman

'orang biasa' walaupun tidak bebas sepenuhnya, selain membantu membina keyakinan untuk

berdepan masyarakat selepas bertahun-tahun berada di penjara.

"Saya suka apabila mendapat pelanggan yang suka berborak. Walaupun ada soalan sensitif, tetapi

itu realiti yang akan saya hadapi bila dibebaskan April depan. Status sebagai banduan memang

mengundang persepsi orang, apatah lagi jika mahu memohon kerja.

"Jadi kemahiran ini diharapkan boleh membantu saya mengusahakan perniagaan sendiri kerana

kakak sudah menyatakan kesanggupan mengeluarkan modal asalkan saya tekad untuk berubah,"

katanya yang bekerja sebagai pemandu lori sebelum ini.

Anak jati Selayang, Selangor itu juga mengakui walaupun sudah menjalani latihan selama enam

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bulan, dia tetap gementar apabila kali pertama menerima 'pelanggan sebenar' dan

mengambil masa beberapa minit untuk menenangkan diri.

Imbasnya, semasa itu tangannya menggeletar sehingga perlu mengingatkan diri supaya tidak

membuat kesilapan selain kerap menoleh melihat reaksi pegawai penjara yang merupakan

pengajar untuk meminta panduan bagi memastikan 'setiap langkahnya' tepat.

Sementara itu, Wan, 29, yang menjalani hukuman penjara 12 tahun bermula 2013 kerana cubaan

bunuh juga menyifatkan keberadaannya di pusat inkubator itu sebagai 'medium tidak rasmi' untuk

berkongsi pengalaman dengan masyarakat.

Anak kelahiran Kuala Lumpur itu mengakui, dirinya lebih gemar diam untuk fokus pada tugasan

yang sedang dilakukan, namun tidak kisah jika ada pelanggan yang hendak mengajak berborak

sementara menunggu rambut mereka ‘siap’.

"Pesanan paling kerap saya beri ialah jangan sesekali lawan ibu ayah dan dengar nasihat mereka.

Mereka lebih tahu daripada kita walaupun ada masanya kita rasa nasihat itu tidak mengikut

kehendak kita. Selain itu, kita juga perlu berfikir semasak-masaknya sebelum membuat apa juga

tindakan," katanya.

Wan menambah saat paling seronok ialah apabila menerima ucapan terima kasih daripada

pelanggan atau melihat mereka tersenyum memeriksa rambut baharu yang secara automatik

membuat dirinya berasa puas dengan hasil kerjanya.

Pengarah Penjara Pahang Datuk Ab Basir Mohamad berkata kedai gunting yang mula beroperasi

pada Disember 2018 itu dalam satu-satu masa dikendalikan lima ODS yang dikawal oleh

kakitangan penjara, dan turut menyediakan perkhidmatan dobi dan urutan refleksologi untuk

lelaki.

"Bukan hanya kemahiran menggunting, ODS juga diberi pendedahan dalam urusan mengira

untung rugi dan cara mengendalikan perniagaan untuk bergelar usahawan kerana Tabung

Ekonomi Kumpulan Usaha Niaga (TEKUN Nasional) ada menyediakan bantuan kepada bekas

banduan.

"Kami berharap usaha ini dapat membantu mereka memulakan hidup baharu terutamanya dalam

bidang gunting rambut yang mana modal permulaan perniagaan tidak begitu besar jika

dibandingkan dengan perniagaan lain," katanya.

Ab Basir berkata bayaran di kedai gunting yang dibuka 9 pagi hingga 5 petang setiap hari kecuali

Jumaat itu juga lebih murah berbanding di tempat lain iaitu RM6 seorang selain turut terlibat

memberikan perkhidmatan gunting rambut percuma kepada pelajar sekolah bagi menghadapi sesi

persekolahan 2020.

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Berkelakuan baik, tiga banduan diberi pelepasan tujuh hari Tarikh kemaskini: 24/12/2019

MACHANG, 24 Dis -- Pusat Pemulihan Akhlak Machang memberi 'hadiah istimewa’ kepada tiga

banduan lelaki di pusat terbabit yang berkelakuan baik.

Pengarahnya Penolong Kanan Komisioner Penjara Mohd Shukri Harun berkata tiga banduan

yang berkelakuan baik itu diberi pelepasan selama tujuh hari di bawah program Pelepasan

Banduan Secara Lesen (PBSL) untuk kembali bersama keluarga bagi tempoh itu.

"Inisiatif di bawah peruntukan undang-undang itu merupakan hadiah kepada banduan yang

berkelakuan baik untuk menjalani kehidupan bersama keluarga buat sementara sebelum kembali

menghabiskan baki hukuman di penjara.

"Ia merupakan proses sebelum mereka bebas kelak untuk menyesuaikan diri bersama keluarga dan

masyarakat," katanya kepada pemberita selepas program PBSL di pusat itu di sini.

Mohd Shukri berkata ketiga-tiga banduan berumur antara 30 dan 40 tahun itu akan melalui

program berkenaan bermula hari ini dan perlu melapor diri di Pusat Pemulihan Akhlak Machang

pada 30 Dis.

Katanya kriteria bagi program itu antaranya berdisiplin, tidak pernah melakukan kesalahan

tatatertib di penjara selain telah menjalani hukuman penjara empat tahun dan baki hukuman tidak

kurang setahun.

"Mereka ini dilepaskan dengan membawa lesen khas yang dikeluarkan dan perlu dibawa bersama

mereka. Mereka masih banduan namun dibenarkan untuk bersama keluarga buat sementara

waktu," katanya.

Mohd Shukri berkata pihaknya telah memaklumkan kepada banduan dan ahli keluarga mereka

berkaitan syarat yang perlu dipatuhi sepanjang tempoh pelepasan itu.

"Jika didapati melakukan kesalahan dan melanggar syarat yang ditetapkan seperti tidak

melaporkan diri, mereka akan ditambah hukuman dua tahun penjara lagi dan kami mempunyai

pegawai yang akan memantau pergerakan mereka sepanjang tempoh itu," katanya.

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Prisoner in China scribbles cry for help in Xmas card

for sale in London

Supermarket giant Tesco said Sunday it has

stopped production at a factory in China after

one of its Christmas cards was found to contain a

cry for help from a prisoner who made it.-

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By AFP - December 23, 2019 @ 6:42pm

LONDON: Supermarket giant Tesco said

Sunday it has stopped production at a

factory in China after one of its Christmas

cards was found to contain a cry for help

from a prisoner who made it.

The Sunday Times newspaper reported that a London schoolgirl had opened a card last weekend

to find a message inside claiming to be from inmates at Shanghai’s Qingpu Prison.

“We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu Prison China,” said the message, in a Tesco

charity card featuring a kitten in a Santa hat.

“Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organisation.”

Tesco is Britain’s largest retailer and the world’s third-biggest supermarket chain with global

operations that include China, India and Ireland.

A spokeswoman said it was “shocked” at the revelation.

It had “immediately halted production at the factory where these cards are produced” and

withdrawn the cards from sale pending an investigation.

“We abhor the use of prison labour and would never allow it in our supply chain,” she said.

The company said the card involved was produced at Zheijiang Yunguang Printing, where an

independent audit was carried out as recently as Nov 2019.

“No evidence was found to suggest they had broken our rule banning the use of prison labour,”

the spokeswoman said, while no other complaints have been received.

“If evidence is found we will permanently de-list the supplier.”

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The firm added that it had 35 full-time sourcing managers working across Asia,

who visited factories to ensure good working conditions.

According to media reports, it is not the first such case.

In 2017, a message in Chinese characters was found in a box of Christmas cards from retailer

Sainsbury’s in Essex, southeastern England.

When translated, it reportedly said: “Wishing you luck and happiness” and was signed “Third

Product Shop, Guangzhou Prison, No 6 District.”

In 2014, a woman in Northern Ireland found a note on a pair of trousers from low-cost shop

Primark saying: “We work 15 hours per day and the food we eat wouldn’t even be given to dogs

or pigs.”

After the latest note was found by 6-year-old Florence Widdicombe, her father admitted that he

initially thought it was a prank.

“On reflection, we realised it was actually potentially quite a serious thing, so I felt very

shocked,” Ben Widdicombe told reporters.

According to the Sunday Times, the message asked whoever received it to contact “Mr Peter

Humphrey.”

Ben Widdicombe searched for Humphrey online and discovered that he was a former journalist

who had spent nine months in Qingpu.

He got in touch and Humphrey contacted some other ex-prisoners, who confirmed that foreign

inmates had been packing cards for Tesco.

Humphrey, a fraud investigator who had previously worked for news agency Reuters, then wrote

up the story for The Times.

He and his wife Yu Yingzeng, a naturalised US citizen, ran an investigative firm hired by

pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), which faced a bribery investigation in China.

They were charged in 2013 with illegally obtaining personal information, were convicted in Aug

2014 and deported the following year.

Charity Christmas cards are popular in Britain and multi-pack boxes can be bought from

supermarkets at low cost.

Tesco said it donates £300,000 a year to three health charities from its Christmas card sales. -

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36 killed in Honduras prison clashes

At least 36 people were killed in weekend

clashes in Honduran prisons as the

military and police try to regain control

after a spate of murders linked to the

criminal gangs plaguing the country.-

AFP

By AFP - December 23, 2019 @

7:19pm

TEGUCIGALPA: At least 36

people were killed in weekend

clashes in Honduran prisons as

the military and police try to

regain control after a spate of murders linked to the criminal gangs plaguing the country.

On Sunday afternoon, 18 gang members died in a clash between inmates at El Porvenir prison,

60 kilometers north of the capital Tegucigalpa.

“Firearms, knives and machetes” were used in the brawl, which also left 10 wounded,

Lieutenant Jose Coello, a spokesman for the National Inter-Institutional Security Force

(Fusina), told local media.

On Friday night, 18 prisoners died and 16 were wounded in a shooting at the prison in the port

town of Tela, northwest of the capital.

The killings came shortly after President Juan Orlando Hernandez – grappling with a wave of

prison killings – ordered the army and the police on Tuesday to take control of the country’s 27

prisons, which are badly overcrowded with some 21,000 inmates.

The security forces later said they were deploying about 1,200 military and police in 18 facilities

classified as “high risk.”

Hernandez announced the crackdown after the killings on Dec 14 of five members of the feared

MS-13 gang by a fellow detainee at the high-security prison in La Tolva, east of Tegucigalpa.

That came just a day after Pedro Idelfonso Armas, the warden of Honduras’s main high security

prison in Santa Barbara, El Pozo, was shot dead in the south of the country.


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The security ministry had suspended Armas shortly before his death, amid an

investigation into his presence during the Oct 26 murder of Magdaleno Meza, a drug kingpin

whose confession and notebooks linked him to the president’s brother, Juan Antonio “Tony”

Hernandez.

Meza’s account books were used as evidence in the New York trial of Hernandez, who was

subsequently convicted on four counts of drug trafficking. He faces sentencing – possibly for life

– in January.

The president condemned the conviction of his younger brother, saying it was based on “the

testimony of confessed assassins.”

A video circulating on social media shows the 52-year-old Armas talking with Meza when prison

guards opened a locked gate, allowing a dozen inmates to burst in to stab and fatally shoot him.

In statements to the AFP, Meza’s lawyer, Carlos Chajtur, publicly accused the government of

having ordered his client to be killed in retaliation for having collaborated with US justice in the

trial against Hernandez.

On Sunday night military and police chiefs told the press that the wave of violence inside prisons

“is an escalation of the criminal world to try to prevent Fusina (...) from imposing the necessary

controls in the country’s penal centers.”

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras

(OHCHR) said it observed “with alarm the violence inside prisons“, and urged the state “to

guarantee the life and respect of human rights to those deprived of liberty and proceed to a

prompt, effective and transparent investigation.”

Honduras is plagued by drug trafficking, gangs, poverty and corruption.

It suffers one of the highest murder rates in the world outside areas of armed conflict, having

registered 41.2 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 2018.

To fight this scourge, Hernandez created a military police force financed by a new tax, and built

special prisons for gang members.

The sky-high crime rate has been a key factor behind a wave of migration toward the United

States, notably by minors who say they fear being forced into gangs. - AFP

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Hong Kongers take to streets in support of Uighurs

Uighur detainees listening to a ‘deradicalization’ presentation at a reeducation camp, in a photo posted to the Xinjiang Judicial Administration’s WeChat account, Hotan Prefecture,

Xinjiang.

By AFP - December 22, 2019 @

6:23pm

HONG KONG: Hong Kong pro-

democracy protesters rallied in

solidarity with China’s Uighurs

on Sunday in a move likely to

infuriate Beijing as they likened their plight to that of the oppressed Muslim minority.

The rally was broken up when riot police swooped in after some protesters removed a Chinese

flag from a nearby government building.

China has faced international condemnation for rounding up an estimated one million Uighurs

and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in internment camps in the northwestern region of

Xinjiang.

The emergence of a huge surveillance and prison system that now blankets much of Xinjiang

has been watched closely in Hong Kong which has been convulsed by six months of huge and

sometimes violent protests against Beijing’s rule.

Pro-Uighur chants and flags have become commonplace in Hong Kong’s marches but Sunday’s

rally was the first to be specifically dedicated to Uighurs.

Around 1,000 people gathered in a square close to the city’s harbourfront listening to speeches

warning that the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown in Xinjiang could one day be replicated

in Hong Kong.

“We shall not forget those who share a common goal with us, our struggle for freedom and

democracy and the rage against the Chinese Communist Party,” one speaker shouted through

the loudspeaker to cheers from the crowd.

Many of those attending were waving the flag of “East Turkestan“, the term many Uighur

separatists use for Xinjiang, which has a white crescent moon on a blue background.

Others wore blue face masks with the East Turkestan flag on it.


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China runs Hong Kong on a “one country, two systems” model which allows the

financial hub key freedoms that are denied people on the authoritarian mainland.

Come 2047 – 50 years after Britain handed the city back – the deal ends.

Many Hong Kongers fear an increasingly assertive China is already eroding those freedoms,

especially since Xi Jinping became president.

Many at Sunday’s rally said they felt a mainland style government is around the corner.

“The Chinese government are control freaks, they can’t stand any opinions they disagree with,”

Katherine, a protester in her late twenties and a civil servant, told AFP before police moved in.

“In Xinjiang they are doing what they are doing because they have the power to do so. When

they take over Hong Kong they will do the same,” she added.

China rolled out a sweeping crackdown on Uighurs and other Muslim minorities after a series

of deadly attacks by militants.

It bristles at any criticism of its policies in Xinjiang and warns against foreign criticism.

Beijing initially denied the existence of the Xinjiang camps, but now says they are “vocational

training centres” necessary to combat terrorism.

Few Muslim countries have openly criticised China given its huge economic clout.

But increasingly high profile figures are speaking out.

Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil, a German of Turkish origin, criticised China’s actions last week

and the Muslim community’s silence but has since come under a barrage of attacks from Beijing.

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At least 18 prisoners dead in clash at Honduras jail

People gather outside the prison

as journalists work after several

inmates were killed or wounded

during a fight between rival

gangs, in Tela, Honduras. -

Reuters

By AFP - December 22, 2019

@ 11:34am


inmates died and 16 were

injured in overnight clashes

between prisoners in

Honduras after fighting erupted at a jail in the northern port town of Tela, prison officials said

Saturday.

The National Penitentiary Institute said 17 prisoners had died at the facility in Tela, about 120

miles (200 kilometers) from the capital Tegucigalpa, and another died in hospital, with local

media describing the unrest as gang violence.

A prison spokesperson, Digna Aguilar, said authorities had to enter the area carefully “for fear

of being among the victims” because several inmates carried firearms. That slowed the

investigation.

The combined national security force known as Fusina said that five 9 millimeter guns, as well

as ammunition, had been seized from the inmates.

Prison officials had originally reported only three deaths, but the toll quickly rose.


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Forensic police arrive to

the penitentiary of Tela, Atlantida

department, Honduras, on December 21,

2019, after a fight between rival gangs

occurred in the prison. -AFP

Forensic workers placed the

bodies in plastic bags and

transported them to the judicial

morgue of San Pedro Sula to be

autopsied.

An AFP photographer at the scene

saw shocked relatives arriving to claim the bodies.

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, grappling with a recent wave of prison killings,

had ordered the army and the police on Tuesday to take full control of the country’s 27 prisons,

which are badly overcrowded with some 21,000 inmates.

But as of Friday, the military had yet to take complete control of the Tela detention center,

according to Aguilar.

On Saturday, top military officer General Tito Livio Moreno indicated that the military would

be deployed in 18 penal centers identified as “high risk.”

Hernandez announced the crackdown after the killings on December 14 of five members of

feared gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) by a fellow detainee at the high-security prison in La

Tolva, 25 miles east of Tegucigalpa.

That came just a day after Pedro Idelfonso Armas, the warden of El Pozo – the country’s main

high-security prison, in the western city of Santa Barbara – was shot dead in the south of the

country.

Relatives of inmates react after getting

information about their loved ones in front of the

penitentiary of Tela, Atlantida department,

Honduras. -AFP

The Ministry of Security had suspended

Armas shortly before that amid an

investigation into his presence during

the October 26 killing by prisoners of

Magdaleno Meza, a drug kingpin

whose confession and notebooks linked

him to a brother of the president, Juan

Antonio “Tony” Hernandez.

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Meza’s account books were entered as evidence in the New York trial of

Hernandez, who was subsequently convicted on four counts of drug trafficking. He faces

sentencing – possibly for life – in January.

President Hernandez condemned the conviction of his younger brother, saying it was based on

“the testimony of confessed assassins.”

A video circulating on social media shows the 52-year-old Armas talking with Meza when prison

guards opened a locked gate, allowing a dozen inmates to burst in and stab and fatally shoot the

drug trafficker.

Relatives of inmates react after getting

information about their loved ones in front of the

penitentiary of Tela, Atlantida department,

Honduras, on December 21, 2019, following

clashes occurred at the jail.. -AFP

In addition, a lawyer who had

represented Meza and other members

of the Valle Valle drug cartel, Jose Luis

Pinto, was killed in an attack

December 9 in a town northwest of

Tegucigalpa. That killing remains

under investigation.

Honduras has been plagued by drug trafficking, gangs, poverty and corruption.

It suffers from one of the highest homicide rates in the world outside areas of armed conflict,

having registered 41.2 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 2018.

To fight this scourge, President Hernandez created a military police force financed by a new tax,

and built special prisons for gang members.

The sky-high crime rate has been a key factor behind a wave of migration toward the United

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18 killed, 16 wounded in Honduras prison gang fight

A general view shows the Los

Dolores church after unknown

persons painted rainbow flags,

commonly known as the gay pride

flag or LGBTQ pride flag, on the

facade, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. -

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By Reuters - December 21,

2019 @ 5:34pm


inmates were killed and 16

wounded during a fight between

rival gangs in a Honduran penitentiary on Friday, authorities said, in one of the worst recent

outbreaks of prison violence in the country.

Two days earlier, the government declared a state of emergency in the prison system, transferring

control to security forces in a bid to clamp down on a recent wave of violence.

However, speaking on condition of anonymity, a senior military official told Reuters that

security forces had not formally taken control of the prison in the northern port city of Tela,

before the violence there broke out.

So far the toll from the bloody prison fight was 18 dead, as well as 16 injured, Antonio Coello,

a spokesman for security agency FUSINA, told local television. Security forces have since

entered the penitentiary to restore order, authorities said.

Fights in Honduras’ overcrowded prisons are frequent as street gangs vie for control inside the

institutions.

Known as maras, the street gangs have made Honduras one of the most violent countries in the

world. - Reuters

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Prisons Dept: Azilah was never brought out of

prison to meet a VVIP

Prisons Department denies that Former police special action force (UTK) officer Azilah Hadri was taken out of Kajang prison to meet a VVIP. - NSTP/File pic

By Esther Landau - December

18, 2019 @ 3:34pm

KUALA LUMPUR: Former

police special action force (UTK)

officer Azilah Hadri has never

been taken out of Kajang prison.

This was confirmed by the Prisons Department in a statement issued today.

It said Azilah had not left the prison since April 15, 2015.

“The last time (Azilah) was taken out of Kajang prison was on April 15, 2015 when he attended

a trial at the Sepang magistrates’ court.

“Kajang prison officials escorted him for the trial after they received the order from the Sepang

magistrates’ court to produce him under Section 30 of the Prisons Act, which allows a prisoner

to attend court at the time and place stated.

“Based on records since the date (April 15, 2015), the accused was never allowed to leave the

prison for any matter.

“Records on meetings and visits also showed that the prisoner had received visits from his family

34 times and 15 times by his lawyer since last year,” it said, adding that allegations that Azilah

was brought out of the prison this year to meet a VVIP was not true.

It was reported that Azilah had allegedly been brought out from death row at Kajang Prison in

February to meet a VVIP.

The allegation was made by Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee

Abdullah.

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Shafee told reporters that he believed there was a coordinated political

assassination plot against Najib.

A few days ago, Azilah made public a statutory declaration (SD) claiming that Najib had ordered

him to kill the Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu in 2006.

The SD by Azilah has gone viral. Azilah claimed that Najib, who was then the deputy prime

minister, told him that Altantuya was a foreign spy who was a threat to national security and

needed to be silenced.

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Promising year for judicial reforms

Prominent lawyer Nizam Bashir (inset) said the government had pledged reforms

in a number of areas, including the

judicial system. - FILE PIC

By Nuradzimmah Daim

December 31, 2019 @

12:07pm

THE year 2020 will see the continuation of efforts towards judicial reform pledged by the

Pakatan Harapan government since it took over the administration.

Experts believed that while some of the reforms had yet to be realised, 2020 might prove to be a

promising year in more ways than one.

Prominent lawyer Nizam Bashir said the government had pledged reforms in a number of areas,

including the judicial system.

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“Some may ask whether these proposals are necessary,” he said.

“However, if we look at the results of the United Nations Development Programme Judicial

Integrity Self-Assessment Checklist, which was answered by participants from the judiciary and

mainly made up of High Court judges as set out in the International Framework on Court

Excellence Report 2018, the answer seems obvious as judges rated the judicial system with

relatively average scores in the areas listed.”

He said judges gave ratings of between 3.61 and 4.09 (out of 5) in specified areas, which included

whether there was a transparent process in the appointment to judicial office and promotion of

judges, complaints policy and a fair and expeditious system for investigation of complaints

against judges and court officers.

Nizam said the Committee on Institutional Reforms had also highlighted the issue of the

appointment of judges as being one of the areas requiring reform.

“So it was not surprising to find Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad expressing the view

in October last year that the appointment of judges and certain other positions would go through

Parliament before the names were submitted to the king.

“The government similarly recognises that there must be reform in the present system.”

He said at present, there appeared to be fixed notions as to what could be meted out in terms of

sentencing.

He said nowhere was this most acute than where the death sentence was concerned.

“More leeway should be given to the judiciary, even in matters involving certain serious crimes,

subject to a careful review in its implementation, and hopefully this will lead to a more just as

well as humane judicial system.”

He also agreed that some laws, namely the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012

(Sosma) and the National Security Council Act 2016, required reassessment.

“Granted, developments may not be going as fast as some quarters may desire, but perhaps we

still ought to look at all of this with some optimism as legislation that affects security most

certainly requires consultation with various stakeholders.

“What is most important is that we get there,” said Nizam.

Apart from the re-assessment of various laws, the sentencing policy, one of the elements in the

criminal justice system, was also under review.

The policy was being reviewed following the government’s decision to study the death penalty.

Human Right Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) commissioner Jerald Joseph said it had been

consistently advocating for the total abolition of the death penalty.

“Therefore, Suhakam would support the government’s decision to abolish the mandatory death

penalty and the moratorium on all executions enforced by the government since 2018 as a first

step to this end,” he said.

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He said Suhakam also welcomed the government’s establishment of a nine-

member committee to study and make recommendations on appropriate punishment to replace

the death penalty and transitional measures for current death row prisoners.

Suhakam commissioner Datuk Mah Weng Kwai, a former judicial commissioner and High

Court judge, is a member of the review committee.

The committee, formed following a cabinet decision in August, held its first meeting on Sept 20,

with members also comprising former Federal Court judges, former Attorney-General’s

Chambers officers, former senior officers of the Prisons Department, as well as representatives

of the Bar Council, academics, criminologists, and civil society organisations.

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China jails scientist who gene-edited babies

China sentenced He Jiankui who claimed to be behind the world's first gene-

edited babies to three years in prison for illegal medical practice, state media

reported. -AFP

By AFP - December 30, 2019 @ 2:23pm

BEIJING: A Chinese court on Monday sentenced the doctor

who claimed to be behind the world’s first gene-edited babies

to three years in prison for illegal medical practice, state media

reported.

He Jiankui, who shocked the scientific community last year by announcing the birth of twins

whose genes had allegedly been altered to confer immunity to HIV, was also fined 3 million

yuan (US$430,000), Xinhua news agency said.

He was sentenced by a court in Shenzhen for “illegally carrying out the human embryo gene-

editing intended for reproduction“, Xinhua said.

The news agency said a third gene-edited baby was born as a result of He’s experiments, which

had not previously been confirmed.

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The scientist announced in November last year that the world’s first gene-edited

babies – twin girls – had been born that same month after he altered their DNA to prevent them

from contracting HIV by deleting a certain gene under a technique known as CRISPR.

The claim shocked scientists worldwide, raising questions about bioethics and putting a spotlight

on China’s lax oversight of scientific research.

Amid the outcry, He was placed under police investigation, the government ordered a halt to his

research work and he was fired by his Chinese university.

Gene-editing for reproductive purposes is illegal in most countries. China’s health ministry

issued regulations in 2003 prohibiting gene-editing of human embryos, though the procedure is

allowed for “non-reproductive purposes.”--AFP

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'Saya tak sabar nak bebas'

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ORANG Di Selia (ODS) Siva (bukan nama sebenar) dikenakan hukuman 14 tahun penjara dan lima sebatan kerana kesalahan samun bersenjata dan membunuh, kini berada di Pusat Reintegrasi Penghuni (PRP) Kem Batu 10. FOTO Mohd Rafi Mamat

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“SELEPAS berjaya memecah

masuk kedai runcit berkenaan,

saya bertindak mengikat tangan pemilik premis itu yang juga wanita warga emas.

“Selepas kira-kira 15 minit mengikatnya dalam stor, saya dapati wanita berkenaan pengsan mungkin

disebabkan serangan jantung kerana terlalu terkejut.

“Saya hanya mengetahui wanita berkenaan mati selepas saya ditangkap polis kemudian disabitkan

kesalahan samun bersenjata dan membunuh, hukuman 14 tahun penjara dan lima sebatan

dikenakan,” kata Siva, 41 bukan nama sebenar.

Dia yang kini menjalani hukuman penjara di Pusat Reintegrasi Penghuni (PRP) Kem Batu 10,

Kuantan, berkata, dia sebenarnya tidak berniat untuk membunuh wanita berkenaan tetapi mungkin

disebabkan terlalu terkejut, wanita itu pengsan dan mati secara mengejut.

Katanya, kejadian yang berlaku di Bentong lapan tahun lalu itu begitu memberi kesan mendalam

pada dirinya sehingga dia menyesal.

Menurutnya, hasil rompakan hanya sebanyak RM5,000, namun satu nyawa tidak bersalah

‘melayang’ begitu sahaja.

Menurut bapa empat cahaya mata itu, dia bernasib baik kerana tidak dikenakan hukuman gantung

kerana membunuh, sebaliknya hanya dikenakan hukuman penjara dan sebat.

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“Saya menasihatkan golongan muda supaya tidak terlalu mengikut hati hingga

sanggup melakukan perbuatan yang menyalahi undang-undang, banyak peluang pekerjaan boleh

dilakukan dengan pendapatan lumayan.

“Ingatlah, pasti kita tidak akan selamat selepas melakukan kesalahan, sebagai contoh hanya

selepas empat hari merompak saya ditangkap polis,” katanya ditemui pada program khidmat

masyarakat di PRP) Kem Batu 10, kelmarin.

Siva yang berasal dari Bera berkata, dia kini insaf dan berjanji tidak akan mengulangi kesilapan lalu,

selama 14 tahun berada dalam penjara banyak mengajar dia erti kehidupan sebenar sebagai

manusia yang tidak menimbulkan masalah pada negara.

“Saya tidak sabar untuk bebas awal tahun depan selepas terlalu lama bergelar banduan, saya ingin

bina kehidupan baru yang lebih bererti bersama keluarga yang banyak berkorban dan menanggung

malu selama ini.

“Kemahiran membaiki kenderaan dan berkebun yang ada akan digunakan untuk meneruskan hidup

di luar sana,” katanya yang tidak sanggup mengingati saat menjalani hukuman sebatan.

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MBOR iktiraf mural 3D Amelia terbesar [METROTV]

MyMetro Mutakhir

Muhammad Zulsyamini Sufian Suri

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MURAL penerbang wanita pertama yang terbang solo di Lautan Atlantik, Amelia Mary Earhart di

dinding premis di Jalan Abdul Jalil, Taiping diiktiraf sebagai lukisan luaran 3D terbesar dalam

Malaysia Book of Records (MBOR).

Yang Dipertua Majlis Perbandaran Taiping (MPT), Borhan Abdul Halim berkata, lukisan dengan

kelebaran 27.44 meter dan ketinggian 14.6 meter itu dihasilkan dengan kos RM280,000, tajaan

syarikat swasta.

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Katanya, lukisan itu siap pada 31 Ogos lalu selepas enam hari dihasilkan oleh enam

pelukis profesional menggunakan cat kalis air dan cuaca dengan tujuh warna berbeza.

“Mural ini menceritakan penerbangan solo Amelia Mary yang mengelilingi dunia merentasi Lautan

Atlantik pada 1937, serta menjadikan Lapangan Terbang Tekah di Taiping yang juga lapangan

terbang pertama Asia Tenggara sebagai lokasi persinggahannya untuk mengisi bahan api sebelum

hilang tanpa dikesan sehingga sekarang.

“Malah, MPT sentiasa mengalu-alukan tajaan mana-mana pihak yang ingin memperindahkan lagi

bandar Taiping melalui lukisan mural, tetapi ia mestilah tidak lari daripada sejarah dan warisan yang

bandar ini sejak penubuhannya pada 1874,” katanya.

MURAL Amelia Mary Earhart di Jalan Abdul

Jalil, Taiping diiktiraf MBOR sebagai lukisan 3D

terbesar. FOTO Abdullah Yusof.

Beliau berkata demikian pada sidang

media sempena pengisytiharan itu, hari ini.

Wakil MBOR Edwin Yeoh Teong Chin dan

Tan Chuin Siang hadir menyampaikan

pengiktirafan berkenaan.

Dalam pada itu, katanya, kerja

mengindahkan bandar menerusi mural pada dinding di bawah pentadbiran MPT mendapat tajaan

pihak swasta, selain pihak persendirian dan kerjasama institusi pengajian awam.

Malah Borhan berkata, MPT kini dalam rundingan dengan Jabatan Penjara untuk projek

melakar mural sepanjang 670 meter di dinding luar Penjara Taiping.

“Kita bercadang menghias dinding itu dengan wajah atlet yang berasal dari Taiping dan pernah

mengharumkan nama negara, dan ia dijangka jadi mural terpanjang untuk tatapan orang ramai.

“Perojek ini termasuk antara 12 projek lukisan mural yang ingin kita siapkan dalam tempoh enam

bulan pertama 2020, yang mana separuh atau enam daripadanya bakal disiapkan dalam tiga bulan,”

katanya.

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18 banduan mati bergaduh di penjara

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AHLI anggota banduan yang

terkorban di dalam penjara. FOTO

REUTERS

AFP

TEGUCIGALPA: Sekurang-

kurangnya 18 banduan maut

manakala 16 lagi cedera

selepas tercetusnya

pergaduhan di sebuah

penjara di utara bandar Tela,

kata pihak berkuasa penjara

semalam.

Menurut Jabatan Penjara, 17 banduan mati di pusat tahanan itu manakala seorang lagi disahkan

meninggal dunia di hospital.

Sehingga kini tidak dapat dipastikan punca tercetusnya pegaduhan di penjara di Tela yang terletak

kira-kira 200 kilometer dari Tegucigalpa itu, lapor AFP.

Jurucakap penjara, Digna Aguilar berkata, pihak berkuasa perlu mengambil langkah berhati-hati

ketika masuk ke kawasan itu memandangkan beberapa banduan memiliki senjata, sekali gus

melewatkan proses siasatan.

Pasukan keselamatan Fusina berkata, sebanyak lima pucuk pistol 9mm serta peluru dirampas

daripada banduan berkenaan.

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18 lagi banduan maut

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GAMBAR hiasan.

AFP

TEGUCIGALPA: Seramai 18 banduan lagi

maut dalam pergaduhan di penjara di

Honduras yang tercetus tidak sampai dua

hari selepas kejadian sama di penjara

berasingan hingga meragut 18 nyawa, kata

jurucakap tentera.

Jurucakap pasukan keselamatan Fusina berkata, senjata, pisau dan parang turut digunakan dalam

pergaduhan di penjara El Porvenir di utara ibu kota Tegucigalpa itu.

AFP melaporkan, insiden ganas itu berlaku selepas 18 banduan maut dalam pergaduhan di penjara di

bandar Tela kelmarin.

Presiden Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez sudah mengarahkan anggota tentera dan polis untuk

melakukan kawalan ketat ke atas 27 penjara yang terlampau padat dengan 21,000 banduan.

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'Sudah pasti mereka nafikan' - Muhammad Shafee

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Muhammad Shafee.

FOTO NSTP

Murni Wan Omar

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“ADAKAH kamu merasakan mereka boleh mengaku? Mereka menggantung diri sendiri,

sudah pasti mereka menafikan!” kata peguam, Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah

berhubung jawapan Penjara Kajang berhubung isu membabitkan bekas pegawai Unit

Tindakhas (UTK), Azilah Hadri.

Dalam kenyataan beliau semalam, Muhammad Shafee mendakwa Azilah pernah dibawa

keluar dari Penjara Kajang untuk berjumpa dengan ‘VVIP’.

Apabila ditanya berhubung identiti ‘VVIP’ itu, Muhammad Shafee berkata, beliau tidak boleh

memberi nama mereka dan sedang berbuat sesuatu mengenainya.

Beliau, bagaimanapun, enggan mengulas lanjut dan terus berlalu meninggalkan wartawan.

Jabatan Penjara hari ini menafikan dakwaan Muhammad Shafee bahawa mereka

membenarkan Azilah dibawa keluar untuk bertemu ‘VVIP’ pada Februari lalu.

Dalam kenyataan media jabatan itu di Kuala Lumpur hari ini, Azilah tidak pernah dibawa

keluar dari Penjara Kajang sejak 15 April 2015.

Kali terakhir Azilah dibawa keluar adalah bagi urusan menghadiri perbicaraan di Mahkamah

Majistret Sepang.

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Kenyataan itu juga memaklumkan rekod lawatan dan perjumpaan juga

menunjukkan Azilah dilawati sebanyak 34 kali oleh keluarga dan 15 kali oleh peguamnya

sejak setahun lalu.

Semalam, media melaporkan Muhammad Shafee yang mewakili Datuk Seri Najib Razak

mendakwa Azilah yang disabitkan membunuh wanita Mongolia, Altantuya Shaariibuu

dibawa keluar dari Penjara Kajang untuk berjumpa seorang VVIP pada Februari lalu.

Muhammad Shafee mendakwa pertemuan itu berlaku di luar penjara dan dilihat sebagai

pelan terancang yang diatur untuk mengaitkan anak guamnya dengan pembunuhan

Altantuya.

Sebelum ini, Azilah membuat dakwaan mengejutkan melalui SD bertarikh 17 Disember lalu

mendakwa menerima arahan daripada Najib untuk membunuh Altantuya.

Pada 13 Januari 2015, Mahkamah Persekutuan menjatuhkan hukuman mati terhadap

Azilah dan seorang lagi anggota UTK, Sirul Azhar Umar selepas didapati bersalah

membunuh Altantuya.

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Kes Altantuya: Tak keluar sejak 15 April 2015

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Azilah Hadri. Foto Arkib NSTP Nurul Hidayah Bahaudin [email protected]

JABATAN Penjara Malaysia mengesahkan

bekas pegawai Unit Tindakhas (UTK) Azilah

Hadri tidak pernah dibawa keluar dari Penjara

Kajang sepanjang tahun ini.

Menurut kenyataan media jabatan itu di Kuala

Lumpur hari ini, Azilah tidak pernah dibawa

keluar dari Penjara Kajang sejak 15 April

2015.

“Kali terakhir dia dibawa keluar dari Penjara Kajang bagi urusan menghadiri perbicaraan di

Mahkamah Majistret Sepang.

“Tugas mengiringnya bagi menghadiri perbicaraan itu dilakukan selepas Penjara Kajang menerima

Perintah Mengemukakan Orang Dalam Jagaan dari Mahkamah Sepang mengikut Seksyen 30 Akta

Penjara yang mengkehendaki banduan menghadirkan diri di mahkamah seperti mana masa dan

tempat dinyatakan.

“Berdasarkan rekod, Azilah tidak pernah dibenarkan untuk dibawa keluar dari penjara untuk apa-

apa jua urusan selepas tarikh itu,” katanya.

Kenyataan itu juga memaklumkan rekod lawatan dan perjumpaan juga menunjukkan Azilah dilawati

sebanyak 34 kali oleh keluarga dan 15 kali oleh peguamnya sejak setahun lalu.

“Lawatan dilakukan seperti mana Peraturan 179 Peraturan Penjara 2000 berhubung lawatan kepada

mana-mana banduan akhir.

“Oleh itu, sebarang kenyataan oleh mana-mana pihak yang menyatakan Azilah dibawa keluar dari

Penjara Kajang pada tahun ini untuk menemui VVIP adalah tidak benar sama sekali,” katanya.

Semalam, media melaporkan Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah yang mewakili Datuk Seri Najib

Razak mendakwa Azilah yang disabitkan membunuh wanita Mongolia, Altantuya Shaariibuu dibawa

keluar dari Penjara Kajang untuk berjumpa seorang VVIP pada Februari lalu.

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Muhammad Shafee mendakwa pertemuan itu berlaku di luar penjara dan dilihat

sebagai pelan terancang yang diatur untuk mengaitkan anak guamnya dengan pembunuhan

Altantuya.

Sebelum ini, Azilah membuat dakwaan mengejutkan melalui SD bertarikh 17 Disember lalu

mendakwa menerima arahan daripada Najib untuk membunuh Altantuya.

Azilah membuat dakwaan itu ketika sedang menanti hukuman gantung sampai mati selepas didapati

bersalah membunuh Altantuya.

Memetik laporan Malaysiakini, dia mendakwa bersama bekas anggota polis, Sirul Azhar Umar hanya

mengikuti arahan ‘shoot to kill’ (tembak mati) sebagai anggota pasukan UTK.

Dia mendakwa terdapat keterangan tidak dikemukakan ketika prosiding di Mahkamah Tinggi dan

Mahkamah Rayuan sebelum ini.

Pada 13 Januari 2015, Mahkamah Persekutuan menjatuhkan hukuman mati terhadap Azilah dan

seorang lagi anggota UTK, Sirul Azhar Umar selepas didapati bersalah membunuh Altantuya.

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Reconsider proposal for private prisons, lawyers tell govt V Anbalagan December 6, 2019 7:00 AM

KUALA LUMPUR: Several lawyers have cautioned against the proposal for private prisons in the

country, saying there are other ways to address the problem of overcrowding in government

correctional centres.

One of them, Muhammad Rafique Rashid Ali, told FMT that any attempt to privatise prisons was

likely to fail.

He instead suggested improvements to the parole system, introduced in 2008, so that convicts could

leave prison ahead of schedule.

“The parole board must be more flexible in releasing prisoners on grounds of good behaviour if there

is support from family members,” he said.

Deputy Home Minister Azis Jamman recently said the government was prepared to look into the

proposal for private prisons in the interest of reducing overcrowding.

He said about 74,000 inmates are presently serving jail terms nationwide although the actual prison

capacity is closer to 52,000.

Given the country’s current financial pressures, he said it was perhaps time to consider establishing

private prisons as has been done in the UK.

However, Rafique said bail could also be considered for those who claim trial to the charges against

them.

“In this regard, the recent High Court ruling that bail can be offered to those charged with murder

and terror-related offences is most welcome,” he added.

He said the courts could impose any condition including for bailors to be family members and for

suspects to report to the nearest police station and surrender their passports pending the outcome

of their trial.

“The court can also order that those charged with serious crimes be fitted with electronic monitoring

devices to keep tabs on their movements,” he said.

Lawyer Salim Bashir said allegations of power abuse and corruption among prison authorities could

be reduced if fewer prisoners were kept in jail.

This would also reduce the government’s liability to negligence suits if inmates die while in custody,

he added.

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On the matter of private prisons, he said he only knew of civil prisons outside the

country for those who commit contempt of court or fail to pay alimony to their spouses.

“The government should get the views of all stakeholders, including the Malaysian Bar, on the

concept of setting up private prisons,” he said.

Lawyer Syed Iskandar Syed Jaafar Al Mahdzar meanwhile said Malaysian prisons are overcrowded

as many inmates are foreigners who had overstayed or run foul of drug laws.

“I suggest that the government expedite its prison reforms and find ways to reduce its annual budget

for food, medicine, staff and building maintenance,” he said.

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What meeting with VVIP, Prison Dept shoots down Shafee’s claim FMT Reporters - December 18, 2019 2:02 PM

The Kajang prison, where former police officer Azilah Hadri is being held on death row.

PETALING JAYA: The

Prison Department today

dismissed claims that the

former police officer who

accused Najib Razak of

ordering the death of

Mongolian citizen Altantuya

Shaariibuu had met with

several individuals outside

the prison where he is

currently on death row.

In a statement, it said Azilah Hadri had not left jail the entire year.

“In fact, he was not taken out of prison since April 15, 2015.”

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Najib’s lead counsel Muhammad Shafee Abdullah claimed yesterday that “several

individuals” had visited Azilah in an attempt to persuade him to implicate the former prime

minister in the model’s death in 2006.

He said he had “very reliable information” that Azilah had met a “VVIP”, among others, outside

the prison after February.

But the Prison Department said the last time Azilah was brought out of prison was on April 15,

2015, for a court case at the Sepang Magistrate’s Court.

Based on its records, it said, Azilah was visited by his family 34 times and his lawyers 15 times

as of last year.

“Therefore, any claim that Azilah was brought out of the Kajang prison this year to meet VVIPs

is false.”

The former Special Action Unit commando recently filed a statutory declaration for the review of

his murder conviction.

He alleged that the order to kill Altantuya came from Najib, who was the deputy prime minister

at the time.

However, Najib rubbished Azilah’s claim, calling it a “complete fabrication by a desperate person

seeking to escape the gallows”.

Altantuya was murdered in October 2006 in the jungles in Puncak Alam near Shah Alam,

Selangor. She was shot in the head before her body was blown up with explosives.

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Taiping commissions 12 huge murals NATION

Saturday, 28 Dec 2019

By IVAN LOH

TAIPING: The Taiping Municipal Council has commissioned 12 huge murals to be painted on

buildings in the town.

Council president Borhan Abdul Halim said the murals would have a historical or heritage theme,

with work on six of the paintings already having started.

“Our plan is to commemorate the historical events that have occurred since the town opened in

1874.

“We expect the six murals to be completed within the next three months. The murals will be

created and sponsored by private companies and does not involve any costs for the council,” he

said after receiving the Malaysia Book of Records certificate for “The Biggest Outdoor 3D Mural

Painting” at Jalan Abdul Jalil here yesterday.

The record-breaking grayscale mural painted on the wall of a shophouse, measures 14.6m high

and 27.4m tall and features Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean.

Borhan said discussions were also being held by the Taiping Prison and several private

firms to create another record-breaking mural.

“They are planning to paint the longest mural, spanning 670m on the outer walls of the prison. The

theme will commemorate Taiping-born athletes who have made the country proud, ” he said.

He said the athletes would include former national football coach Datuk M. Karathu, former

national sprinter Junaidah Aman and others.

“We hope it can begin next year, ” he said.

A previous version of this story stated that Amelia Earhart had stopped at the Tekah

Aerodome in Taiping on June 20,1937 to refuel during her historic journey. There is no

evidence of this.

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Prime Minister’s Office denies Mahathir met Azilah NATION

Thursday, 19 Dec 2019

PETALING JAYA: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has never met former police commander Azilah Hadri

who is convicted for the murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu, the Office of the Prime Minister

(PMO) said.

“It was widely reported that Dr Mahathir shook his head and smiled when asked if he had met Azilah.

This question came at the tail end of a press conference following the launch of Bandar Malaysia in

Putrajaya (on Tuesday).

“There were also attempts to allude that Dr Mahathir was the VVIP who allegedly met with Azilah,

on death row at Kajang Prison, in February this year, ” the PMO said in a statement yesterday.

The PMO said Dr Mahathir also dismissed allegations that the government was behind Azilah’s

revelation of Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s involvement in the murder of Altantuya as stated in his

(Azilah’s) recent statutory declaration (SD).

“As this involves the legal process, the government will leave the matter to the relevant authorities

to decide on the next course of action, ” the PMO said.

Meanwhile, the Prison Department said Azilah was in prison since April 15,2015.

In a statement, the department said Azilah was actually taken out of prison on the same date to

attend trial at the Sepang Magistrate’s Court.

“Azilah’s escort to the court was arranged after Kajang Prison received an order from the court to

bring him for the trial, ” it said.

Based on records, the department said Azilah had never left the prison nor was he taken out since

that day for any matter.

“Since last year, Azilah was visited 34 times by family members and 15 times by his lawyer.

“Thus, any report alleging that Azilah was taken out of prison to meet a VVIP this year is definitely

not true, ” the department said.

The statement came after Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah

claimed to have received information that a “VVIP” had paid a visit to Azilah, who is on death row.

The lawyer said Azilah’s review application on Tuesday to set aside his conviction and death

sentence was a “mischievous application”.

Shafee also alleged that hidden hands were behind the application.

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Azilah wanted the Federal Court to review his 2015 conviction and death sentence for

killing Altantuya in October 2006.

On Tuesday, Shafee said “very reliable information” revealed that Azilah had met a VVIP outside the

prison in February.

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Azilah has not left prison since 2015, says Prisons Dept NATION

Wednesday, 18 Dec 2019 1:42 PM MYT

By FARIK ZOLKEPLI

Azilah Hadri

PETALING JAYA: Former

police commando Azilah

Hadri has never been

brought out of prison since

April 15,2015, the Prisons

Department confirms.

In a statement on

Wednesday (Dec 18), the

department said Azilah was

taken out of prison on that date to attend trial at Sepang magistrate's court.

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since-2015-says-prisons-dept

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Home Slider Azilah has not left the Kajang Prison since 15 April 2015

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Azilah has not left the Kajang Prison since 15 April 2015 By Admin

18th December 2019

The Prisons Department said that former commando on

death row, Azilah Hadri who was convicted for the murder of Altantuya Shaaribu has not left the Kajang Prison since 15 April 2015.

By Ainul Asniera Ahsan

KUALA LUMPUR – The Prisons Department said

that former commando on death row, Azilah Hadri

who was convicted for the murder of Altantuya

Shaaribu has not left the Kajang Prison since 15 April 2015.

“The last time Azilah Hadri was brought out of the Kajang Prison was on 15 April 2015 to

attend his trial at the Sepang Magistrate Court,” said the Prisons Department in a statement

today.

Therefore, it said, any statement from any individuals stating that Azilah was brought out

from the Kajang Prison this year to meet certain VVIP was untrue.

In its explanation, the Prisons Department said that Azilah’s escort to the court was

arranged after the Kajang Prison received an order from the court to bring him for the trial

in accordance with Section 30 of the Prisons Act.

Based on the record, Azilah had never been allowed to be taken out of prison for any reason.

It said, the visiting record also showed that the prisoner was visited 34 times by his family

members and 15 times by his lawyer at the Kajang Prison for the past year. –

MalaysiaGazette

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april-2015/

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Home Slider Has the prison scandal of Abdullah Ang repeated itself?

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Has the prison scandal of Abdullah Ang repeated itself? By Admin - 18th December 2019

By Syahril A. Kadir

Yesterday, renowned lawyer, Tan Sri Muhammad

Shafee Abdullah expressed his shock on how a

convicted prisoner on death row could be given the

access to meet a VVIP outside the Kajang prison.

The prisoner he meant was none other than the

former Special Action Unit (UTK) officer, Azilah

Hadri who was sentenced to death by hanging after

he was found guilty for murdering Mongolian model,

Altantuya Shaariibuu in 2006.

Nevertheless, Shafee said that he could not verify the information but it was given to him

my a trusted source.

“The meeting between Azilah and the VVIP took place in early February this year. How could

a prisoner on death row go out of the prison to meet a VVIP? How could that happen?

“I definitely cannot verify this information but it was given to me by a trusted source. The

meeting was not in the prison but outside. When a prisoner is on death row, how could they

be brought out just like that?

“That is against the law and protocol. I am waiting for a formal confirmation at this moment,”

he told the journalists.

As a person with vast experience in the legal field, Shafee would not make the shocking

statement without any basis.

If it truly happened as alleged, it seemed like the ‘dark history of 1989’ may return to tarnish

the image of the country.

Here is the story.

On 19 August 1989, the Malay Mail made an exclusive daring revelation on how

businessman, Abdullah Ang had the Super VVIP treatment at the Kajang Prison.

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His room was equipped with

refrigerator, carpet, video player and waterbed.

Abdullah could also enter and exit the Kajang

Prison as if he owned that place.

For the record, Abdullah Ang was the Chief

Executive of the Malaysian Overseas Investment

Corporation (MOIC) who had many friends

among the government leaders and senior

officers.

He had an eight years sentence and was fined

RM100,000 by the Kuala Lumpur High Court on

15 December 1986 (which was lightened after

mitigation plea). He pleaded guilty over the

charges on criminal breach of trust amounting

RM338,808.80.

Two years before his release date, Abdullah was

seen around Kuala Lumpur! He was wearing a t-

shirt and a pair of white pants. Upon getting the

information, the editor of Malay Mail sent the

journalist and photographer to track the

prisoner.

In its report, Abdullah was also seen at the

garment factory belonging to his family. There

were no warden or officer from the prison at sight

escorting him during his visit.

What happened truly stunned Malaysians as not

only a prisoner could walk freely into and outside the jail but his cell was equipped like a

hotel room.

However, Abdullah realised that he was being photographed and he covered his face

immediately with a towel.

When the case was brought to the prison, they claimed that Abdullah was involved in the

pre-release system where a prisoner is allowed to work outside the prison and prep them

for their release in the future.

However, according to Allahyarham Datuk Zainuddin Maidin in his article, Abdullah was

given the special treatment to travel between the Kajang prison and the capital to drink teh

Tarik, read newspapers and to manage his business in Jalan Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur.

Nevertheless, according to Zainuddin, despite his dishonesty, Abdullah Ang had an

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business and trading. He could project himself well in all levels. He was not

shy. He was brave and he could be covetous if it is needed.

“That special personality enabled him to close to the officers in Kajang Prison which in turn,

gave him the special treatment to roam in and out of the prison to enjoy the air out there,”

he said.

It was not a surprise that the special treatment enjoyed by Abdullah was due to his influence

and good relationship with the top leaders in the country.

Abdullah Ang’s case also caused a reshuffle in the Prison Department, where the position of

the Director-General of Prison was given to a senior police officer then.

In Azilah’s case, it was impossible for him to gain such special treatment but having the

access to meet a

person outside

the prison was

truly something

special for a

convicted

prisoner on

death row.

As at the time of

writing, there is

no official

statement from

the authorities

on Shafee’s

allegation.

Honestly, we

hope that what

Shafee said was

not true. Generally, we see that the integrity of the Prison Department is still attached at

its highest level. Besides that, they have improved tremendously after the scandal involving

Abdullah Ang 30 years ago.

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POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

Prisons Dept rubbishes claim Azilah left Kajang prison to meet a VVIP theedgemarkets.com December 18, 2019 16:20 pm +08

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 18): Azilah

Hadri, the convicted murderer of

mongolian model and translator

Altantuya Shaariibuu, has not left the

Kajang Prison since April 2015,

according to the Prisons Department.

In a statement today, the department

said the former police special action

force (UTK) personnel never left the

prison in Kajang throughout this year,

and that the last time Azilah was taken out from the place was on April 15, 2015.

"The last time he (Azilah) was brought outside of Kajang Prison was on April 15, 2015, when

he had to attend a hearing at the Sepang Magistrates Court," the Prisons Department said.

Since then, Azilah has not left the prison's premises, the department stressed.

The death row inmate, meanwhile, has been visited by his family members 34 times since

a year ago, while his lawyer visited him 15 times.

"Consequently, any statements made by any parties alleging that Azilah Hadri had been

brought out of Kajang Prison this year to meet with a VVIP is not true," the department said.

Azilah, who has been sentenced to death for his role in Altantuya's murder, has filed a

statutory declaration (SD) claiming that it was former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak

who gave him the order to kill Altantuya.

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The former chief inspector said Najib, who was deputy prime minister and

defence minister when Altantuya was killed in 2006, had met him and ordered him to "shoot

to kill", after telling him she was a "dangerous foreign spy".

The SD was filed to support his application — filed earlier this month — to seek a review of

his conviction and death sentence that was passed down by the Federal Court in 2015. He

is also seeking a retrial of the case.

Following the explosive allegation, Najib's chief legal counsel Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee

Abdullah alleged Azilah had been brought out from the prison to meet with the VVIP in

February.

In making the claim on Tuesday, Shafee also alleged that the meeting was a breach of

prison protocol, and that the meeting was part of a political assassination plot against Najib,

who is currently being tried in court for corruption, money laundering and abuse of power

charges involving 1Malaysia Development Bhd and its former subsidiary, SRC International

Sdn Bhd.

Shafee also said Najib will file an application to intervene in Azilah's review application to

set aside his 2015 conviction for the murder of Altantuya.

See also:

Dr M denies he is the VVIP who met Azilah

Najib will take ‘sumpah laknat’ on Friday to deny Azilah’s claim he ordered Altantuya’s

killing

Najib seeks to intervene in ex-UTK officer Azilah's bid to set aside conviction in Altantuya

case

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>> HIBURAN > > Ahmad Dhani bebas dari penjara

Ahmad Dhani bebas dari penjara

TERJEMAHAN SINAR HARIAN | | 30 Disember 2019

Ahmad Dhani dibebaskan. - Foto

Kompas

JAKARTA - Penyanyi popular

Indonesia, Ahmad Dhani

dibebaskan hari ini dari penjara

Cipinang Jakarta Timur.

Ahmad Dhani diiringi pegawai

penjara meninggalkan penjara

Cipinang sekitar jam 9.30 pagi

tadi.

Memetik laporan Kompas,

Ahmad Dhani keluar dengan memakai baju t-shirt berwarna hitam dan bersongkok selepas

dihukum penjara 18 bulan setelah didapati bersalah menyebarkan mesej kebencian di

Twitter.

Ahmad Dhani atau nama sebenarnya, Dhani Ahmad Prasetyo, 46, disambut dengan

puluhan peminatnya yang menunggu seawal pagi di luar bangunan penjara tersebut.

Apabila ditanya mengenai kebebasannya, Ahmad Dhani berkata dia akan menjawabnya

setelah tiba di kediamannya di Pondok Indah.

Turut kelihatan, isterinya, Mulan Jameela.

Bekas anggota kumpulan Dewa 19 itu ditahan pada 28 Januari lalu atas

kesalahan menyebarkan mesej berunsur kebencian dalam tiga kenyataan di Twitter.

Hukuman yang dijatuhkan adalah selama setahun, namun dia dibebaskan awal

sebulan selepas mendapat pengampunan untuk kes yang disabitkan.

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>> GLOBAL > > 40 pegawai penjara diserang pesalah juvana

40 pegawai penjara diserang pesalah juvana

ZUBIR SULAIMAN | | 28 Disember 2019

Seramai 14 pegawai penjara cedera

dalam insiden keganasan di Institusi

Pesalah Juvana Feltham Young di West

London semalam. - Foto Agensi

LONDON - Sekurang-kurangnya

40 pegawai penjara terpaksa

dibawa ke hospital selepas

keganasan meletus di Institusi

Pesalah Juvana Feltham Young di

West London semalam.

Jurucakap kementerian

kehakiman berkata, kejadian itu

bagaimanapun berjaya ditangani dalam tempoh 25 minit.

"Dua belas pegawai yang cedera telah dibenarkan pulang manakala dua lagi masih dirawat

oleh doktor malam tadi.

"Institusi ini menempatkan remaja berumur antara 15 dan 18 tahun yang telah disabitkan

atau ditahan reman atas kesalahan masing-masing," katanya.

Dalam pada itu, jurucakap terbabit berkata, pihaknya tidak akan bertolak ansur dengan

keganasan terhadap kakitangan penjara dan akan menghukum mereka yang terlibat.

Pada Oktober lalu, ketua pemeriksa penjara, Peter Clarke berkata, keselamatan di Feltham

telah menjunam ke tahap yang mengerikan sejak enam bulan lalu dengan peningkatan

keganasan selain tahanan yang bertindak membahayakan diri mereka sendiri. - Agensi.

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juvana

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>> BERITA > WARNA-WARNI KEHIDUPAN > Banduan mahu jadi imam keluarga

Banduan mahu jadi imam keluarga

SITI FATIHAH AWANG | | 25 Disember 2019

Jo tekun melihat surat

perjanjian pelepasan.

MACHANG - "Perkara pertama

saya akan lakukan ialah jadi

imam kepada keluarga, itu

hasrat hati saya sejak belajar

jadi imam di dalam penjara,"

kata seorang banduan yang

kenali sebagai Jo ketika ditanya

perkara utama dilakukannya

apabila keluar dari penjara hari

ini.

Jo merupakan antara tiga banduan yang dibenarkan pulang seminggu melalui Pelepasan

Banduan Secara Berlesen yang dilaksanakan di Pusat Pemulihan Akhlak Machang di sini.

Walaupun baki hukuman yang perlu dijalani hanya tujuh bulan sahaja lagi, namun dia tetap

teruja untuk bertemu keluarga kali ini walaupun untuk tempoh seminggu sahaja.

"Saya teringin nak makan KFC dengan keluarga. Insya-ALLAH seminggu yang diberikan ini

saya akan gunakan sebaik mungkin untuk bersama keluarga dan rehat di rumah.

"Nanti bila sudah keluar (tamat hukuman) saya bercadang untuk buka kedai makan. Insya-

ALLAH semoga semuanya dimakbul ALLAH," katanya yang menjalani hukuman di bawah

Seksyen 396 atas kesalahan merogol.

Sementara itu, seorang lagi banduan juga berkongsi mahu meluangkan masa dengan

empat anak-anaknya yang kini dijaga keluarga di Gua Musang.

"Saya teruja untuk jumpa anak-anak dan keluarga. Memang keluarga saya selalu datang

jenguk di penjara namun perasaan tidak sama bila kita pulang ke rumah dan makan

bersama.

"Saya bersyukur diberikan lesen untuk keluar sekejap, bolehlah saya hilangkan rindu pada

keluarga dan sanak-saudara. Nasihat saya kepada mereka yang terjebak dengan dadah

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hanya satu, lupakan saja, kerana keseronokannya hanya sementara, tapi

kedukaannya berpanjangan.

"Alhamdulillah, sejak berada di dalam (penjara) saya banyak mendalami ilmu agama yang

menjadi asas kepada kita semua, Insya-ALLAH ia boleh menjadi panduan kepada saya

untuk mendidik anak-anak selepas ini," kata Abe Mey yang telah empat kali khatam al-

Quran sejak mula berada di penjara 2014 lalu.

Terdahulu, Jo, Abe Mey dan seorang lagi banduan iaitu diberikan taklimat khusus oleh

Pengarah Pusat Pemulihan Akhlak Machang, Penolong Kanan Komisioner, Mohd Shukri

Harun mengenai syarat yang perlu dipatuhi sepanjang seminggu dibenarkan keluar dari

pusat tersebut.

Mohd Shukri dalam sidang media yang sama memberitahu, ketiga-tiga banduan itu masih

menjalani hukuman di Machang namun mereka terpilih untuk diberikan kebebasan berlesen

mengikut kriteria yang telah ditetapkan.

"Pada asalnya 12 orang yang kita calonkan, namun hanya 3 yang layak dan diberikan lesen

pelepasan kali ini. Mereka dipilih mengikut syarat, kriteria dan disiplin sepanjang mereka

berada di pusat pemulihan.

"Ini merupakan pertama kali dilakukan di penjara ini dan kami harap dengan adanya inisiatif

ini, mereka (banduan) akan insaf dan menggunakan peluang ini sebaik mungkin untuk

bersama keluarga.

"Saya juga mohon jaga baik keluarga untuk ambil dan pulangkan kembali mereka

sebagaimana ditetapkan iaitu pada 30 Disember ini bermula jam 2 hingga 4 petang. Jangan

lupa bawa lese

kongsi pengalaman penjara di kedai gunting...

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