News by (Bernama) - The decision by the Bar Council to sue the government over the May 7 detention of five legal aid lawyers is an attempt to intimidate the enforcement authorities from discharging their duties, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz said today.
He said it also showed that the legal practitioners themselves wanted to undermine the country’s legal system.
“The Bar Council is supposed to be a role model. If police enforce the law and among those caught are their (Bar Council) members, they have to accept it."
View the video clip below courtesy from Malaysiakini and judge by yourselves. Who undermine the country's legal system? Who supposed to be role model? The lawyer were there to discharge their duty for their client(arrested earlier for peaceful candlelight vigil). Why are they arrested. Who is trying to intimidate? The OCPD, The Lawyers or the peaceful Vigilers.
From the video above we could summerise as follow:
1. POLICE DENIED access for those arrested to LAWYERS!!
2. LAWYERS ARE THERE TO PROVIDE LEGAL COUNSEL!!
3. POLICE ARREST THOSE LAWYERS. THOSE LAWYERS WERE STANDING OUTSIDE THE BRICKFIELD POLICE STATION POLITELY BEGGING the police to let them see their arrested client!!
PEOPLE you be the judge. Nazri said, Let our judiciary decides? Hmmm.... well??? Shall we? Are we? Come on we still have good Judges around, right?
“We have the judiciary. Let the court decides whether the five lawyers are guilty or not,” he told reporters after opening a programme for Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) pupils in the Padang Rengas parliamentary constituency at the Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Temenggong, Kati here.
He was commenting on a resolution passed by the Bar Council at its extraordinary general meeting on Friday to sue the government and Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan over the detention of the five lawyers during the candlelight vigil for the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) activist Wong Chin Huat last week.
Monday, 18 May 2009
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