A poor report card for the Madani Government by Amnesty International
Malaysia heading towards ‘Banana Republic’ status
“No journalist has been arrested or news portal shut down in the time that the unity government has been in power”
Fahmi Fadzil (pictured above) in response to the Amnesty International Report
The government failed to fulfil commitments to reform laws restricting the right to freedom of expression and continued to use repressive laws to silence critical voices and prevent peaceful protest. Punitive treatment of refugees and migrants continued, including indefinite detention and forced return in violation of the principle of non-refoulement. Further custodial deaths were recorded. The mandatory death penalty was abolished and1,020 death row prisoners became eligible for resentencing.
Highlights of the report are as follows:
The government did not act on commitments made during the 2022 general election campaign to reform laws that curtailed freedom of expression and to adopt a Freedom of Information Act.
Authorities continued to use repressive laws– including the Communications and Multimedia Act; provisions of the Penal Code relating to causing disunity or hatred on grounds of religion and public fear or distress; and the Sedition Act – to silence critical voices both on- and offline.
The Printing Presses and Publications Act was increasingly used to restrict the right to freedom of expression of LGBTI people.
Authorities continued to use the Peaceful Assembly Act (PAA), the Penal Code and the Minor Offences Act to restrict the right to peaceful protest.
There were ongoing allegations of human rights violations in immigration detention centres where refugees and migrants were indefinitely detained.
At least 13 people, including three foreigners, died in police custody.
Palm oil plantations, logging and the construction of dams continued to threaten the lands and livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples.
The full 2023/2024 report can be accessed here.
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Lets start at the very beginning. A very Good place to start. Amnesty is racist and full of bullies. Several reports independent reports about the organization verify this quality that exists within the organization. Amnesty like many other so called NGO's are staffed by pro Western government stoogies who adopt the Western government narratives of good and bad which means if you do not conduct yourself by ("World") standards meaning Western world standards you are inhumane and bad. Ask Ambiga Srinavasan and her cohorts like C4 in Regime Change. They will confirm the views of the writer and auditors of Amnesty.
Clearly those who lobbied Amnesty International for this conclusion are the likes of the pro Kuomintang ultra right wing Malaysian Chinese who want total domination of the peninsula, Sabah and Sarawak like they achieved in Singapore (now Sin Char Poh) and the losers at Hindraf.
Such aa report is a back handed compliment for the Malay government and even Anwar.
Nury Vittachi of https://fridayeveryday.com has this lovely piece below on Amnesty. Vittachi, not an air-con brand, a thorn up the butt of the Brits, is himself an off-white caricature of the colonial Brit, just follow the way he speaks.
Years ago, a friend of mine worked for Amnesty International at its headquarters, as an innocent save-humanity well-meaning chap, had quite a shock when he discovered the organisation had close connections with the Brit spooks fraternity.
Harold Chee (in case you think I cooked up the story), as a Chinese of the then Rhodesia, was a mild "resistance" bit of the non-white community, buggered off Amnesty jolly damn quickly when he found out about the spooky outfit.
Old Harold was always wary of apartheid regimes, thought Rhodesia's apartheid regime was "mild" when compared to that of the old South Africa - his bro wasn't allowed to enter it as a member of the Rhodesian national rugby team.
Anyway, here's Vittachi:
"What's missing from the reports about Amnesty leaving Hong Kong?"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=en2mm35iB7o&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Ffridayeveryday.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo