PKR is delusional, as usual
An EDM is actually not worth the paper it is printed on and carries no weight. Britain and Sweden do not even respect a fatwah by the United Nations (SEE BELOW REGARDING THE JULIAN ASSANGE CASE). So do you think an EDM is going to raise any eyebrows?
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
PKR is delusional if they think they can frighten the Malaysian government regarding the Early Day Motion (EDM) by some British Members of Parliament. And it is an EDM signed by only six of the 650 Members of Parliament, mind you.
An EDM is actually not worth the paper it is printed on and carries no weight. Britain and Sweden do not even respect a fatwah by the United Nations (SEE BELOW REGARDING THE JULIAN ASSANGE CASE). So do you think an EDM is going to raise any eyebrows?
PKR is trying to pull the wool over our eyes and is trying to make it appear like the EDM is so important. A fatwah by the Perak Mufti probably carries more weight than an EDM. Even a United Nations fatwah is thrown into the waste bin. There is just too much drama coming out from PKR.
Anyway, Malaysia should tell Britain to mind its own business and not kaypoh with the internal affairs of another country. It is not like everything is so honky dory in England. What is Britain doing about those Muslim girls and women who are being attacked all over the UK and who are being subjected to hate crimes against Muslims? To be safe Muslim girls and women walking alone have to remove their purdah.
Britain should talk about freeing Anwar only when Britain allows Julian Assange the same freedom.
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PKR wants Putrajaya’s response to British parliamentary motion seeking Anwar’s release
PKR today urged the federal government to look into a motion tabled this month in the British Parliament calling for Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s release from prison and expressing concern over the alleged crackdown on opposition lawmakers here.
Noting that the motion, known as an Early Day Motion (EDM), has received cross-party support from six British MPs, PKR strategic director Sim Tze Tzin said Putrajaya should respond as it should now know that it would not be able to escape international scrutiny for its actions here.
“The Malaysian Government must realise by now, no country is an Island and Malaysia’s good name is tarnished because of injustice against Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Opposition Members of Parliament.
“Parti KEADILAN urge the Malaysian Government to respond to the increasing calls by international community for the release of Datuk Seri Anwar and drop charges against all Opposition Members of Parliament, civil societies, students and journalists,” he said in a statement.
According to UK Parliament’s website, the EDM titled, “First anniversary of the imprisonment of Malaysian Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim” was filed by senior British MP Ann Clwyd last Tuesday.
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Julian Assange: ‘sweet’ victory soured by British and Swedish rejection
A UN panel may have found that Julian Assange is subject to “arbitrary detention” and called for him to be allowed to walk free, but the WikiLeaks founder remains exactly where he has been for the past 44 months – inside Ecuador’s London embassy and locked in a three-nation war of words.
Britain and Sweden immediately rejected the UN report, which declared that Assange had been “arbitrarily detained” since his arrest in 2010 and during his lengthy stay in the embassy, where he sought asylum in June 2012. The British foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, described the findings as “ridiculous” and the Australian as a “fugitive from justice”.
However, the panel’s findings, leaked on Thursday and published in full on Friday morning, were a welcome victory for Assange, and a moment he intended to savour fully. At 4.01pm he emerged on to the balcony of the west London embassy to greet a crowd of several hundred supporters and journalists, pausing first, just briefly, to glance at the sky he has rarely seen for more than three years.
“How sweet it is,” said Assange, holding aloft a copy of the UN report while supporters shouted: “We love you, Julian!” It had been, he said, “a victory of historical importance”, and a decision reached after a process to which both Britain and Sweden had made submissions. “They lost. UK lost; Sweden lost.”
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UK, Sweden reject UN panel ruling in favor of Julian Assange
Britain says it rejects a UN panel ruling that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is the victim of arbitrary detention at the Ecuadorian embassy in London and insists he will still be extradited to Sweden if arrested in the UK.
“This changes nothing,” a British government spokesman responded to the UN decision, adding that London will formally contest the ruling.
The UK insists that Assange is voluntarily avoiding lawful arrest by staying at the Ecuadorian mission in the British capital and Whitehall is “deeply frustrated that this unacceptable situation is still being allowed to continue.”
