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PAS leaders to meet Agong over illegal rally

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 11:25 PM PDT

PAS leaders to meet Agong over illegal rally

KUALA TERENGGANU: Several top PAS leaders hopes to have audience with Yang di Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin over the July 9 illegal rally.

PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu said president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang, assistant secretary-general Dr Syed Azman Syed Ahmad Nawawi, himself and several others plan to meet him soon.

He said PAS has sent a letter to Tuanku Mizan asking for an audience and is expected to receive a reply today or tomorrow.

"The Agong's advice is good as he asked to safeguard public order, ensure public safety and not to destroy property.

"He is a true constitutional monarch for being a middleman to resolve the present crisis," he said at a PAS function in Ledang last night.

Mat Sabu said PAS welcomes Tuanku Mizan's views on the rally. - BERNAMA

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King urges restraint

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 09:58 PM PDT

We can't follow practices of other countries, says Tuanku Mizan

KUALA LUMPUR: The Yang di- Pertuan Agong yesterday urged certain segments of the people not to be overzealous in their attempts to "enrich democracy" in the country lest this "brings about destruction".

Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin said Malaysians could not be following blindly the practices of other countries because harmony and stability were things that needed to be defended by everyone. He said he had been closely following the plan by Bersih 2.0 to organise a rally on Saturday to hand over a memorandum to him and expressed confidence in the administration of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in handling the issue.

Najib, meanwhile, defended police actions, including the use of the Emergency Ordinance, saying such measures were necessary.

The prime minister said this was to prevent people with hidden agendas from exploiting the gathering.

It was a sentiment echoed by his deputy, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who said the opposition was inciting the people to go to the streets to demand for fair and transparent elections, which he added was already being practised.

Addressing the Federal Territory Barisan Nasional convention yesterday, Muhyiddin, who is also BN deputy chairman, said it was never the opposition's motive to fight for democracy.

He said the opposition had no right to demand for democracy as they did not practise it themselves.

Arrests were made in several states, including Selangor, Johor, Malacca and Perak, over the weekend.

All were suspected to have been promoting the illegal rally.

In Klang, police detained Kapar member of parliaments.

Manikavasagam yesterday when he was found in possession of nine Bersih 2.0 T-shirts in his car.

Klang Utara police chief Superintendent Mohamad Shukor Sulong said Manikavasagam was released several hours later after having his statement recorded.

In Johor Baru, police detained six DAP members, including Bakri member of parliament Er Teck Hwa, at the Taman Sri Tebrau market at 9.40am yesterday.

The men, clad in T-shirts with the slogan "Negara Bersih, Negara Ber tuah" (A clean nation, a fortunate nation), were detained on suspicion of promoting the Bersih 2.0 rally.

The others detained were Johor DAP Socialist Youth chief Tan Hong Pin, vice-chief Jason Josob, Johor DAP committee member Chen Kah Eng, Taman Bukit Indah DAP branch secretary Yan Boon Meng and Johor DAP assistant political education director Tang Chee Kia.

Johor Baru South police chief Assistant Commissioner Zainuddin Yaakob said the men were detained under the Societies, Printing Presses and Publications and Sedition acts In Jasin , 17 Pas members were arrested at the party's premises in Dataran Hamas at 1.15pm yesterday for promoting the Bersih 2.0 rally.

Among those detained was state Pas Youth deputy chief Yuhaizad Abdullah, 38.

State police chief Datuk Chuah Ghee Lye said police also seized 113 yellow T-shirts with the words "BERSIH 2.0" and 303 leaflets.

They were freed on police bail.

In Batu Gajah, police detained three people wearing Bersih 2.0 Tshirts at thewet market on Saturday.

In Terengganu , a district-level opposition leader was among seven de - tained in Marang and Dungun last week for promoting the Bersih rally.

The Dungun-based man was detained near Jalan Alor Tembesu at 6pm on Thursday for obstructing police who were trying to take down a banner promoting the rally.

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Ahad, 3 Julai 2011