Victor Wong, ahli PRM, dituduh berkenaan tweetnya mengenai IGP?

PRM member charged for tweet on IGP

Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM) member Victor Wong has pleaded not guilty to a charge against him of insulting Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar and the Royal Malaysian Police Force.

Wong was charged in a sessions court in Kuala Lumpur today with making a Twitter posting on Aug 31, after the arrests of Penang Voluntary Unit (PPS) members on that day.

He was charged under Section 504 of the Penal Code, with an alternative charge under Section 233(1)(a) of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998.

Wong posted his bail of RM4,000 and the trial date was fixed for Oct 27.

Wong, 43, is a factory manager and a freelance writer with online news site The Ant Daily.
Some 10 supporters were present in the courtroom today, among them PRM president Rohana Ariffin (left).

If convicted under the primary charge, Wong faces up to two years' jail, or a fine, or both.
On the alternative charge, he faces either a maximum fine of RM50,000 or one year’s jail, or both.

Wong's was represented by Arafas Abdul Razak, while the deputy public prosecutor was Mohd Nordin.
 
The presiding was judge Abdul Rashid Daud.

The charge sheet states that Victor Wong posted on Twitter: “Bastardization of @PDRM. Thanks to the ruthless @KRAB51 Henrich Himmler of Malaysia” and that Wong therefore insulted the IGDP and PDRM, on 31st of August, in a McDonald Restaurant in MidValley, Kuala Lumpur.

@PDRMsia is the official Twitter account for PDRM, whereas KRAB51 owned by IGP himself.

Arafas pointed out that the police were initially investigating Wong under the sedition law, but in the end chose to charge him under the Penal Code.

The bail was set for RM7,000 at first, but Arafas argued that Wong did no harm to society and has been cooperative with the police, and asked for the bail to be set at RM4,000.

When interviewed, Wong said he made the comment because of the arrest of PPS members by the police.

“So many innocent people were arrested. It's not fair. I mad the comment based on the injustice (of the PPS case).”

Police arrested more than 150 Penang Voluntary Patrol Unit (PPS) members on Aug 31, the federal Merdeka Day, claiming they are illegal as PPS is not registered under Societies Act.

Soon after making his comment, Wong apologised on Twitter to the IGP and the police force. However, IGP Khalid Abu Bakar said action would be taken against anyone who insults him. - Malaysiakini, 15/9/2014, PRM member charged for tweet on IGP

Police chief wants probe on tweets insulting him

 

Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Khalid Abu Bakar has asked the force's cyber investigation unit (PCIRC) to act against individuals who insulted him on social networking site Twitter.

Khalid posted screenshots in his own Twitter account of two individuals who tagged Khalid with insulting messages directed at the police chief.

Although the reason for their outburst is unclear but it could be related to the police's action against the Penang Voluntary Unit (PPS) earlier today.

In both Twitter postings, Khalid mentioned PCIRC and requested that action be taken against them.

In one posting, a man tagged Khalid and called him "anjing BN" (BN dog), while another posted, "Thanks to ruthless (Khalid), Henrich Himmler of Malaysia."

Khalid said the first individual he mentioned was being "insolent" against the IGP and subsequently requested action against the other Twitter user.

Cyber response team starts probe

In a statement posted on its Facebook, the PCIRC said that it would investigate the two individuals, though it did not specify under what sections.

"The Police Cyber Investigation Response Centre will take action and conduct investigations on individuals who issue statements that insult PDRM through social media.”

It also posted the screenshots of the two Twitter postings to help identify the individuals behind it.

Khalid had earlier today ordered the police to take action against PPS, and currently 154 of them have been detained by Penang police, despite the state government's insistence that PPS is a legal state agency.

The police chief had argued that PPS is not registered under the Societies Act and thus it is an illegal organisation. - Malaysiakini, 31/8/2014, Police chief wants probe on tweets insulting him

Kenyataan Media (18/8/2009) - Halangan dan cabaran PRM

Kenyataan Media - 18/8/2009

Halangan dan cabaran PRM

Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM) telah mengadakan majlis “Malam Kemenangan PRM” baru-baru ini di Kuala Lumpur untuk meraikan usaha yang berjaya mempertahankan pendaftarannya.

Pada 16 Julai 2009 Mahkamah Tinggi Sivil Kuala Lumpur telah menolak permohonan sebilangan bekas kepemimpinan PRM untuk membubarkan PRM, dan seterusnya mematahkan niat bekas kepemimpinan PRM yang diketuai oleh bekas presiden PRM Dr Syed Husin Ali untuk membubarkan PRM melalui mahkamah . Bekas ahli PRM ini telah menyertai Keadilan.

Menurut pengerusi majlis malam selaku Setiausaha Agung PRM Koh Swe Yong, majlis malam tersebut dijangka buka 8 meja, tetapi oleh sebab sambutan baik daripada ahli-ahli PRM, majlis akhirnya membuka 15 meja. Selain ahlil-ahli PRM, terdapat tetamu jemputan daripada PAS Bahagian Gombak yang diketuai Cikgu Ishak Surin, Setiausaha Agung Pertubuhan Sekerja Gopalan, Setiausaha Agung PSM Aru, aktivis sosial Hishamuddin Rais dan lain-lain.

Pengerusi majlis menegaskan bahawa walaupun PRM sudah mengharungi masa yang susah dan sengit, mendapat pengakuan terhadap pendaftarannya sebagai sebuah parti politik berdaftar yang sah, akan tetapi dapat dijangkai PRM akan pada masa depan terus-menerus menghadapi keadaan terasing, di mana bekas pemimpin PRM mencuba mengguna apa-apa carapun untuk meminggirkan dan melenyapkan nama PRM secara politik.

Oleh itu, Koh Swe Yong menyeru kepada bekas pemimpin PRM itu supaya menerima hakikat bahawa PRM sebagai sebuah pertubuhan politik tidak pernah dibubarkan oleh ahli-ahlinya dan berhentilah segala tindak-tanduk yang sia-sia ini terhadap PRM. Penindas utama rakyat hari ini ialah parti pemerintah pusat iaitu UMNO-BN yang korup dan zalim. Demi kepentingan rakyat PRM bersedia bekerjasama untuk memperjuangkan hak dan kepentingan rakyat.

Pada malam kemenangan tersebut, yang berucap Presiden PRM Hassan Karim, Ketua PAS Gombak Cikgu Ishak Surin, Setiausaha Agung Pertubuhan Sekerja Gopalan, Setiausaha Agung PSM Aru, ahli Keadilan Siti Nor Hamid Tuah dan Ahmad Hamid Tuah, Naib Presiden selaku Ketua Pulau Pinang PRM Gary, dan Jalil Ahmad. Jalil Ahmad merupakan ahli PRM yang pertama menulis surat pada September 2004 kepada Setiausaha Agung ketika itu menanyakan bila akan diadakan Kongres Khas ahli PRM untuk membubarkan PRM kerana kononnya PRM telah bercantum dengan Keadilan pada 3 Ogos 2003. Selain itu, bekas tahanan ISA Yap Kok On serta anak perempuannya dari Negeri Sembilan bersama-sama mempersembahkan biola pada malam itu.

Dalam ucapannya, Presiden PRM Hassan Karim mengucapkan terima kasih kepada ahli-ahli PRM serta panel peguam yang membela PRM iaitu Palaniandy, G. K. Ganesan dan Wee Choo Keong yang banyak berusaha secara profesionalisme atas pembelaan hak demokratik dan hak asasi kemanusiaan.

Apabila bersentuh tentang keadaan politik semasa tanah air, Hassan Karim menegaskan lagi, walaupun wujudnya perbezaan antara PRM dengan Pakatan Rakyat(PR) khususnya Keadilan, tetapi kesemua perbezaan bukannya pertentangan yang utama, penindas utama yang dihadapi oleh golongan bukan pemerintah pusat ialah UMNO-BN. PRM menyokong perjuangan PR untuk menegakkan demokrasi dan membela kepentingan rakyat walaupun PRM tidak dalam PR.

Sejak penubuhannya pada 11 November 1955, PRM tidak pernah berhenti daripada menentang dasar-dasar Barisan Nasional (BN) dan Parti Perikatan iaitu nama BN pada 1960an. Kemenangan PRM dari segi undang-undang hanya merupakan kemenangan kecil. Secara perbandingan, kemenangan yang bermakna dan besar ialah apabila pemerintah UMNO-BN yang berkuasa selama 55 tahun itu ditumbangkan dan dilucutkan kuasa pemerintah pusat. Bagi PRM, kemenangan menumbangkan kerajaan UMNO-BN ialah kemenangan yang besar.

Hassan Karim berkata, setelah mendapatkan pengakuan terhadap pendaftaran PRM, beliau berharap bekas pemimpin PRM menghormati hak kebebasan berpersatuan dan tidak merayu. Beliau berkata, selepas ini PRM perlu melipat-gandakan usaha untuk meneruskan tradisi PRM yang sediakala memberi khidmat

Cikgu Ishak menyatakan bahawa penubuhan PRM adalah untuk menentang penjajahan Inggeris dan menuntut kemerdekaan Malaya, menentang sistem ekonomi kapitalisme dan feudalisme. Cikgu Ishak pernah bersama-sama dengan pengasas PRM seperti Boestamam, Pak Sako dan Dr. Burhanuddin Helmi mengasaskan PKMM (Parti Kebangsaan Melayu Malaya) selepas tamatnya Peperangan Dunia Kedua.

Setiausaha Agung Pertubuhan Sekerja Gopalan berkata pada ketika negara menghadapi kemelesetan ekonomi yang teruk, rejim autokratik UMNO-BN sedang mempertingkatkan cengkamannya terhadap rakyat, oleh itu rakyat harus bersatu-padu menentang rejim yang autokratik ini. Pertubuhan Sekerja ditubuhkan pada 1970an.

Manakala Setiausaha Agung PSM Aru mengucapkan tahniah kepada PRM kerana dapat mempertahankan pendaftarannya. Beliau berkata pengalaman PSM selama 10 tahun untuk mendapatkan pendaftaran menjadikan PSM cukup memahami dan menghayati makna hak kebebasan berpersatuan.

Siti Nor Hamid Tuah meluahkan buah fikirannya, beliau menyertai Keadilan dengan harapan semangat berkhidmat kepada rakyat jelata dan cita-cita perjuangan murni PRM dapat diterapkan dalam Keadilan. Walaupun bagaimanapun beliau membidas pucuk kepemimpinan Keadilan kerana mereka enggan menerima kritikan dan pandangan yang berlainan. Contohnya pada PRU 12, bekas pemimpin PRM yang menyertai Keadilan dan ada semangat berkhidmat tidak dipilih untuk bertanding dalam pilihan raya umum, sebaliknya orang-orang yang rapat dengan pucuk pimpinan dan merupakan kawan baiknya dilantik. Kesudahannya apabila pengundi ada masalah dan pergi keepaa mereka untuk mendapatkan bantuan, mereka tidak dibantu, bahkan penolong YB ini mengambil sikap acuh tak acuh. Keadaan macam ini sungguh mengecewakan.

Jalil Ahmad menegaskan bahawa PRM adalah parti berbilang kaum. Suasana macam malam ini jarang-jarang boleh didapati di perhimpunan lain. PRM akan terus berjuang untuk rakyat negara ini.

Koh Swe Yong
Setiausaha Agung, PRM
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Parti Rakyat Malaysia lives on - application to dissolve party by former leaders rejected (16/7/2009)

High Court allows PRM to continue

Parti Rakyat Malaysia has won a decision at the High Court in Jalan Duta today against its dissolution.

Eight former PRM members who are now PKR leaders were seeking to dissolve the party.

In the end, the judge ruled in PRM’s favour.

According to a PRM leader, Rohana Ariffin, there were no provisions in the party’s constitution governing dissolution. Thus, she said, the court held that the Societies Act applies – in which case, the party should have convened a final congress to obtain its members’ approval for the dissolution of the party. This, she said, was not done.

So, for now, PRM still survives as a party.- anilnetto.com, 16/7/2009

We do hope that these former PRM (now PKR members) will not proceed further in their quest to de-register PRM. They do have a right to appeal to the Court of Appeal ... but it is hoped that they do not...and just move on to other more important matters concerning Malaysia and its peoples. Choices must be respected. Some in PRM have chosen to keep alive and continue with PRM, and their choice and right must be respected.

Noting the difficulty for any political party to register itself in Malaysia, and acknowledging and respecting the principle of freedom of association, they (the ex-PRM leaders) must not do anything more to prevent persons/members of PRM today from continuing to exist and function in Malaysia.

At the same time, PRM and its current leadership (and members) must awake from the slumber they have been in, and actively rejuvenate and enliven Parti Rakyat Malaysia to become and active political party - another option and choice for the Malaysian people.