Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Anwar & Tuduah Liwat 2 ... Keputusan Mahkamah Persekutuan Anwar bersalah ...


Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will start a five-year inprisonment after his appeal against conviction and sentence for sodomy was dismissed by the Federal Court in Putrajaya today.
His second sodomy case starting in 2008 did not attract the crowds that surged in his 1998 case but support has grown for the sacked deputy prime minister and his Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition in the intervening years.
Despite his sodomy charge, Anwar and PR raked in more supporters among the electorate in the 2013 polls, taking in 52% of the popular vote and again denying the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) of its two-thirds parliamentary super-majority.

Here is The Malaysian Insider's view of the winners and losers from today's decision by the five-man bench of the Federal Court. WINNERS
1. Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad
Malaysia's longest-serving prime minister sacked Anwar in 1998, ostensibly on sodomy and power abuse charges, although it was widely seen as a move to preempt a party coup.
Since then Anwar has been Dr Mahathir's (pic) number one political enemy, and was jailed for six years in 1999. Anwar was acquitted in 2004 when Dr Mahathir's successor Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was in power.
Anwar and his allies broke BN's hold in the 2008 and 2013 polls, threatening Dr Mahathir's legacy and putting him in contention as a future prime minister. His latest conviction and imprisonment has all but ensured he will not be PM.
It also paves the way for Dr Mahathir to remain focused on his campaign to keep Umno in power, which includes removing leaders whom he feels are unsuitable to lead the party.
2. Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah
The Umno lawyer was named to lead the prosecution's appeal against Anwar's acquittal of committing sodomy by the High Court in 2012. He successfully led the prosecution in both appeals at the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court.
Shafee (pic, left)) won both, although his star dimmed recently over a Home Minister's letter vouching for the integrity of his client Paul Phua, who is facing charges in the United States with running a World Cup football online betting ring.
There has been speculation that a victory against Anwar will strengthen Shafee's chance of becoming the Attorney-General once incumbent Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail retires from office this year.
3. Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang
The PAS president has never sat easy with Anwar in a rivalry that goes back to their days in the Islamist student group Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (Abim) in the late 1970s.
Politically, they were divided too with Hadi joining PAS in 1978 and Anwar joining Umno in 1982. Anwar progressed in Umno and the government under Dr Mahathir's mentorship until 1998 when he was sacked.
That sacking reunited the duo against Umno but the rivalry and Anwar's ease at handling both international and domestic politics have always put Hadi (pic, right) a step behind.
The Selangor leadership change called the Kajang Move saw Hadi refusing to play ball with Anwar's PKR and the DAP resulting in several months of impasse and frosty ties.
With Anwar in jail, the ultra-conservative Hadi can exert a greater influence over PR which is likely to be led by PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah in the interim.
LOSERS
1. Malaysia
The country of 30 million people is further divided after two divisive elections, and two sodomy trials involving Anwar over the past 17 years.
Although the crowds have thinned since Anwar's 1999 sodomy conviction, more people have voted for his opposition alliance than ever before in the past two elections.
His latest sodomy conviction adds to the growing gloom in a country that is facing lower revenues from falling oil and palm oil prices apart from a weaker currency. Uncertainty over strategic investor 1MDB's financials have further clouded the country's economy even as people brace for an unpopular consumption tax.
The latest Anwar sodomy verdict has also put the spotlight back on Malaysia's judiciary and its judgments although Putrajaya took just 10 minutes today to insist the judiciary remains independent of the executive.
2. Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim
He might say he continues to fight the good fight but the popular politician turns 68 in August and any early release will only come in 40 months when he is at least 71.
And with a further five-year bar at the end of his jail term from contesting in any election, Anwar can only legally run for public office when he is 76.
In other words, the latest jail sentence has all but killed his political prospects.
3. Datuk Seri Najib Razak
For the prime minister, there is no equal in Umno or BN to take him on. He might be unpopular and performed worse than Abdullah at the polls but he remains the only viable leader in the ruling coalition.
His only adversary has always been Anwar, who led Najib and others as the Team Wawasan in the 1993 Umno party polls.
But an imprisoned Anwar now makes Najib a sitting duck for Dr Mahathir's ire and growing disenchantment with the prime minister's social and economic policies apart from the debt-heavy 1MDB impacting the government.
On the international scene, today's Anwar verdict will draw further criticisms from world leaders who have been impressed with Najib's moderate Islam credentials. They have been worried about his volte face over sedition laws but the Anwar decision will further erode their trust in the prime minister's reform agenda.
Najib will also have to take into account the verdict's impact when he next leads BN at the polls. The sodomy charge that hung over Anwar only attracted more votes in 2013 and his imprisonment now can only get the opposition even more votes.
4. Umno and Barisan Nasional
The perceived injustice over the Anwar verdict, and the lack of action and long imprisonment for government figures said to be corrupt, will only push people away from Umno and the other BN parties.
Umno itself suffers from warlords who want to keep power and push away young and capable politicians from running for office in the party or government. The Anwar verdict will only attract them to join PR and move up faster through the ranks.
It is the same with other BN component parties, where infighting and old leaders' reluctance to give way to younger members will only push away Malaysians who are conscious of their rights and able to exert more influence through social media.
As it is, the DAP and PKR have recruited younger members at the expense of Umno and its allies. The Anwar verdict will exacerbate the exodus to PR and hasten the death of non-Malay parties in BN. – February 10, 2015.
- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/winners-and-losers-in-sodomy-2#sthash.4wrbQUvT.dpuf
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Kes Liwat II: Mahkamah putuskan Anwar bersalah, kekal hukuman penjara 5 tahun
T K Letchumy Tamboo, Astro Awani | Kemas kini: Februari 10, 2015
(Diterbitkan pada: Februari 10, 2015 14:18 MYT)
PUTRAJAYA: Mahkamah Persekutuan mengekalkan hukuman penjara lima tahun ke atas Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Keputusan itu disampaikan pada jam 2.05 petang tadi.

Mahkamah Persekutuan mendapati  Anwar bersalah atas kesalahan meliwat bekas pembantunya Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan tujuh tahun lalu.

Keputusan itu disampaikan oleh Ketua Hakim Negara, Tun Arifin Zakaria, yang mengetuai panel lima hakim Mahkamah Persekutuan, selepas membacakan keputusan selama hampir 2 jam itu.

Dengan keputusan ini, Anwar gagal mengenepikan hukuman penjara lima tahun yang dikenakan ke atasnya.

Peguam Anwar, Gopal Sri Ram telah meminta masa sehingga jam 1 untuk proses mitigasi.

Keputusan itu disampaikan selepas perbicaraan selama lapan hari, menjangkaui jadual asal perbicaraan selama dua hari.

Pada 9 Jan 2012, Mahkamah Tinggi melepaskan dan membebaskan Anwar daripada pertuduhan itu atas alasan mahkamah tidak pasti secara 100 peratus tentang sampel yang diambil daripada mangsa bagi ujian DNA.

Mahkamah memutuskan bahawa sampel itu mungkin telah diganggu atau tercemar sebelum ia sampai ke Jabatan Kimia untuk analisis.

Walau bagaimanapun, pada 7 Mac tahun lepas, Mahkamah Rayuan mendapati Anwar, 67, bersalah terhadap pertuduhan meliwat Mohd Saiful, 27, di Unit 11-5-1 Kondominium Desa Damansara di Jalan Setiakasih, Bukit Damansara, di sini antara 3.10 petang dan 4.30 petang pada 26 Jun 2008.

Mahkamah juga mendapati Anwar gagal membuktikan dakwaannya bahawa wujud konspirasi politik dalam pertuduhan terhadapnya.

Dengan keputusan ini, Anwar, 67, boleh hilang kelayakan sebagai Anggota Parlimen (MP) Permatang Pauh mengikut Perkara 48(1)(e) Perlembagaan Persekutuan, yang menyatakan bahawa seorang anggota Parlimen akan hilang kelayakan jika dia dihukum penjara lebih daripada satu tahun, atau didenda lebih daripada RM2,000.
 
Anwar diwakili sepasukan 15 orang peguam yang diketuai Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram, yang juga bekas hakim Mahkamah Persekutuan.

Empat belas peguam yang lain ialah Ramkarpal Singh Deo, Gobind Singh Deo, Sangeet Kaur Deo, N.Surendran, R. Sivarasa, J.Leela, Latheefa Koya, Lim Khim Choon, Eric Paulsen, Michelle Yesudas, Shahid Adli Kamaruddin, Zaleha Al-Hayat, Jeremy Vinesh Anthony dan Mohamed Aliff Bolkin.

Peguam kanan Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah mengetuai pasukan pendakwaan dalam rayuan itu. Beliau dibantu Timbalan Pendakwa Raya Datuk Mohamad Hanafiah Zakaria.

Ini merupakan kes liwat kedua terhadap Anwar.  

Dalam kes pertama, dia didapati bersalah meliwat pemandu keluarganya, Azizan Abu Bakar, di Tivoli Villa, Kuala Lumpur pada tahun 1994, dan dijatuhi hukuman penjara sembilan tahun oleh Mahkamah Tinggi pada 8 Ogos 2000.

Mahkamah mengarahkan beliau menjalani hukuman itu selepas selesai hukuman penjara enam tahun kerana rasuah, setelah didapati bersalah atas empat tuduhan rasuah pada 4 April, 1999.

Namun selepas menghabiskan hampir enam tahun di penjara kerana rasuah, beliau dibebaskan pada 2 Sept, 2004, selepas Mahkamah Persekutuan yang diketuai Hakim Tun Abdul Hamid Mohamad, yang kemudian menjadi Ketua Hakim Negara, mengubah sabitan dan mengetepikan hukuman penjara ke atas beliau atas tuduhan liwat, dengan keputusan majoriti 2-1.
   
Abdul Hamid, yang menulis penghakiman majoriti, berkata hakim mendapati Anwar dan tertuduh bersama Sukma Darmawan Sasmitaat Madja "terlibat dalam kegiatan homoseksual" dan hakim-hakim lebih cenderung untuk mempercayai bahawa liwat yang didakwa itu memang berlaku.


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Saya Tidak Bersalah - kata Anwar
http://www.sinarharian.com.my/semasa/saya-tidak-bersalah-kata-anwar-1.359001
PUTRAJAYA - [KEMASKINI] “Saya tidak bersalah. Kejadian liwat tidak pernah berlaku,” demikian ungkapan Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim ketika diberi peluang mengemukakan rayuan pengurangan hukuman secara lisan kepada mahkamah, semalam.

Anwar, 67, dengan nada sebak berkata, keputusan itu melengkapkan konspirasi politik bagi menjatuhkan karier politiknya.

“Yang Arif-Yang Arif (merujuk kepada panel lima hakim) tidak mengambil kira hujahan para peguam saya sejak dari hari pertama. Insiden itu (liwat) tidak pernah berlaku,” katanya.

Panel hakim Mahkamah Persekutuan yang sepatutnya mendengar rayuan peringanan hukuman daripada Ahli Parlimen Permatang Pauh itu kelihatan agak terkejut dengan kecaman pemimpin pembangkang itu.

Ketua Hakim Negara, Tun Arifin Zakaria yang mengetuai sidang itu meminta Anwar berhenti daripada mengeluarkan kata-kata menghina mahkamah.

“Kamu boleh merayu tapi jangan menghina mahkamah ini,” Arifin memberi amaran.

Anwar bagaimanapun meneruskan ucapannya dengan nada yang lebih lantang.

Anwar berkata bukan satu kebetulan apabila Pejabat Perdana Menteri mengeluarkan kenyataan berhubung keputusan itu hanya beberapa minit sejurus mahkamah mengumumkannya sedangkan hukuman masih belum diputuskan.
Anwar menyelar keputusan hakim-hakim itu yang beliau kaitkan dengan pemerintah politik serta sistem kehakiman yang berkecuali.

Beliau berkata, hakim-hakim itu  boleh mengharumkan nama (dalam keputusan tersebut), tetapi memilih sebaliknya.

Sekali lagi panel hakim meminta Anwar berhenti mengutuk mahkamah.

Namun Anwar meneruskan ucapan beliau dan menyebut mengenai konspirasi politik sehingga menyebabkan semua hakim bangun dan meninggalkan tempat duduk mereka.

Insiden itu menyebabkan mahkamah terpaksa ditangguhkan kira-kira 15 minit sebelum dimulakan semula.

Walaupun ketika sidang ditangguhkan, Anwar tetap meneruskan kata-katanya dengan penuh semangat.

"Kerja keras akan diteruskan, tidak kira di mana saya berada dan apa yang dilakukan terhadap saya. Kepada semua penyokong, terima kasih diucapkan; ikhlas dari hati saya. ALLAH kekuatan saya. Saya berjanji saya tidak akan berdiam diri. Saya akan berjuang demi kebebasan dan keadilan. Saya tidak akan menyerah kalah,” katanya.

Sejurus selepas kata-kata tersebut, dewan mahkamah bergema apabila penyokong Anwar melaungkan reformasi dan takbir. Hakim-hakim kembali mengambil tempat apabila suasana mahkamah kembali tenang.

Arifin kemudian membacakan keputusan bahawa mahkamah itu menolak permohonan pihak pendakwaan untuk menambah hukuman serta menolak rayuan peguam bela untuk mengurangkan hukuman dan mengekalkan hukuman penjara lima tahun terhadap Anwar.

 
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BY THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER
Published: 10 February 2015 3:43 PM

- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/winners-and-losers-in-sodomy-2#sthash.4wrbQUvT.dpuf

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Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will start a five-year inprisonment after his appeal against conviction and sentence for sodomy was dismissed by the Federal Court in Putrajaya today.

His second sodomy case starting in 2008 did not attract the crowds that surged in his 1998 case but support has grown for the sacked deputy prime minister and his Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition in the intervening years.
Despite his sodomy charge, Anwar and PR raked in more supporters among the electorate in the 2013 polls, taking in 52% of the popular vote and again denying the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) of its two-thirds parliamentary super-majority.
Here is The Malaysian Insider's view of the winners and losers from today's decision by the five-man bench of the Federal Court.

WINNERS
1. Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad
Malaysia's longest-serving prime minister sacked Anwar in 1998, ostensibly on sodomy and power abuse charges, although it was widely seen as a move to preempt a party coup.
Since then Anwar has been Dr Mahathir's (pic) number one political enemy, and was jailed for six years in 1999. Anwar was acquitted in 2004 when Dr Mahathir's successor Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was in power.
Anwar and his allies broke BN's hold in the 2008 and 2013 polls, threatening Dr Mahathir's legacy and putting him in contention as a future prime minister. His latest conviction and imprisonment has all but ensured he will not be PM.
It also paves the way for Dr Mahathir to remain focused on his campaign to keep Umno in power, which includes removing leaders whom he feels are unsuitable to lead the party.

2. Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah

The Umno lawyer was named to lead the prosecution's appeal against Anwar's acquittal of committing sodomy by the High Court in 2012. He successfully led the prosecution in both appeals at the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court.
Shafee (pic, left)) won both, although his star dimmed recently over a Home Minister's letter vouching for the integrity of his client Paul Phua, who is facing charges in the United States with running a World Cup football online betting ring.
There has been speculation that a victory against Anwar will strengthen Shafee's chance of becoming the Attorney-General once incumbent Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail retires from office this year.

3. Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang
The PAS president has never sat easy with Anwar in a rivalry that goes back to their days in the Islamist student group Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (Abim) in the late 1970s.
Politically, they were divided too with Hadi joining PAS in 1978 and Anwar joining Umno in 1982. Anwar progressed in Umno and the government under Dr Mahathir's mentorship until 1998 when he was sacked.
That sacking reunited the duo against Umno but the rivalry and Anwar's ease at handling both international and domestic politics have always put Hadi (pic, right) a step behind.
The Selangor leadership change called the Kajang Move saw Hadi refusing to play ball with Anwar's PKR and the DAP resulting in several months of impasse and frosty ties.
With Anwar in jail, the ultra-conservative Hadi can exert a greater influence over PR which is likely to be led by PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah in the interim.

LOSERS
1. Malaysia
The country of 30 million people is further divided after two divisive elections, and two sodomy trials involving Anwar over the past 17 years.
Although the crowds have thinned since Anwar's 1999 sodomy conviction, more people have voted for his opposition alliance than ever before in the past two elections.
His latest sodomy conviction adds to the growing gloom in a country that is facing lower revenues from falling oil and palm oil prices apart from a weaker currency. Uncertainty over strategic investor 1MDB's financials have further clouded the country's economy even as people brace for an unpopular consumption tax.
The latest Anwar sodomy verdict has also put the spotlight back on Malaysia's judiciary and its judgments although Putrajaya took just 10 minutes today to insist the judiciary remains independent of the executive.

2. Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim
He might say he continues to fight the good fight but the popular politician turns 68 in August and any early release will only come in 40 months when he is at least 71.
And with a further five-year bar at the end of his jail term from contesting in any election, Anwar can only legally run for public office when he is 76.
In other words, the latest jail sentence has all but killed his political prospects.

3. Datuk Seri Najib Razak
For the prime minister, there is no equal in Umno or BN to take him on. He might be unpopular and performed worse than Abdullah at the polls but he remains the only viable leader in the ruling coalition.
His only adversary has always been Anwar, who led Najib and others as the Team Wawasan in the 1993 Umno party polls.
But an imprisoned Anwar now makes Najib a sitting duck for Dr Mahathir's ire and growing disenchantment with the prime minister's social and economic policies apart from the debt-heavy 1MDB impacting the government.
On the international scene, today's Anwar verdict will draw further criticisms from world leaders who have been impressed with Najib's moderate Islam credentials. They have been worried about his volte face over sedition laws but the Anwar decision will further erode their trust in the prime minister's reform agenda.
Najib will also have to take into account the verdict's impact when he next leads BN at the polls. The sodomy charge that hung over Anwar only attracted more votes in 2013 and his imprisonment now can only get the opposition even more votes.

4. Umno and Barisan Nasional
The perceived injustice over the Anwar verdict, and the lack of action and long imprisonment for government figures said to be corrupt, will only push people away from Umno and the other BN parties.
Umno itself suffers from warlords who want to keep power and push away young and capable politicians from running for office in the party or government. The Anwar verdict will only attract them to join PR and move up faster through the ranks.
It is the same with other BN component parties, where infighting and old leaders' reluctance to give way to younger members will only push away Malaysians who are conscious of their rights and able to exert more influence through social media.
As it is, the DAP and PKR have recruited younger members at the expense of Umno and its allies. The Anwar verdict will exacerbate the exodus to PR and hasten the death of non-Malay parties in BN. – February 10, 2015.
- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/winners-and-losers-in-sodomy-2#sthash.4wrbQUvT.dpuf

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 .... sehari sebelum keputusan mahkamah.

Evidence points to Anwar’s acquittal, but only if courts are free, say observers 

See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/evidence-points-to-anwars-acquittal-but-only-if-courts-are-free-say-observe#sthash.v3AuEmLC.dpuf


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BY ANISAH SHUKRY
Published: 9 February 2015 8:59 AM




The Federal Court will announce its verdict over Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s Sodomy II case tomorrow and if he is jailed, it will be the end of the opposition leader’s political career. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Mukhriz Hazim, February 9, 2015. Tomorrow, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will learn whether he will be jailed, stripped of all political positions, or be cleared of a sodomy charge and remain a free man and leader of the opposition.

The Federal Court is set to announce its verdict over the Sodomy II case that began in 2008, when Anwar pleaded not guilty to sodomising his former aide, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, in court. It was the second time he faced a sodomy charge, the first in 1998 after his sacking from government.
Anwar had tasted victory in 2012 when the High Court acquitted him, but the Court of Appeal overturned the decision last year, just days before he was to contest in the Kajang by-election.
The Federal Court will decide whether to uphold the Court of Appeal’s verdict, or stand by the High Court’s decision.
The Malaysian Insider asked several observers how they expected the verdict to play out tomorrow. They said that while the opposition leader should be acquitted of charges, “politics” might come into play and see the man – once Malaysia’s prime minister hopeful – imprisoned for a second time.
TMI: Based on what you know of the case, what do you expect the results of the sodomy case will be, and why?



Phil Robertson (pic), deputy director, Human Rights Watch Asia division:  Sadly, I think he’s going to be convicted. I think a lot of people in the international community, other governments think that way as well. There is a great deal of despair about that. 
Once again, it is an example of Malaysia shooting itself in the foot. It has lots of issues to deal with, but for some reason the government is obsessed about knocking out the opposition rather than unite the people and bring the people forward.
The reason I think he will be convicted is because the government has worked very hard to pursue this case through the system. We hope that the court will be independent and impartial, and make their decision based on evidence.
What the government has done is tarnish Anwar’s reputation for seven years through this charge, which is very explosive among Malay voters – they have cast him in the worst possible manner, (accused him of acts) contrary to the beliefs of many Malays on sexual orientation and gender, deliberate smearing him with a charge that shouldn’t be a crime, dragging it out, distracting him from his duties as the opposition leader, and trying to put him back in prison.
The whole process, episode has been outrageous and shameful.
The fact that the government continues to go forward with this shows how it completely lacks the vision of how Malaysia perceived in the world. This is an extremely black mark in Malaysia. I think the government will be stunned by the depth of international anger if Anwar is convicted.
Lim Chee Wee, former Bar Council president:  Anwar should be acquitted, simply because the evidence is weak. In any event, circumstances suggest conspiratorial and selective persecution.
Dr Bridget Welsh, senior researcher, Centre for Asia Democratic Studies, National Taiwan University: I think it’s not appropriate to speculate on the judiciary, let the judges make their decision and follow the letter of the law. 
If that’s the case, from the legal perspective, from the burden of proof, the decision should be that he is acquitted. If it’s something else, then it’s a political decision.
One has to look at the case in totality. There are clearly issues here that raised questions in the application of the law. Ultimately, we should let the judiciary do their job.
The question of the handling of the evidence, the question associated with the application of the law in terms of prosecution of him as opposed to anyone else (was raised). It looks like selective persecution.



Datuk Seri Ambiga Sreenevasan (pic), Negara-Ku patron: I cannot predict what the outcome will be on Tuesday. However, based on the arguments as reported and as I heard presented in court, I would anticipate an acquittal.
Quite apart from the legal issues before the court, I believe that Malaysians are truly sick of the sodomy cases against DSAI (Anwar). I think it’s time for the paranoia to stop. He is not superman! Can’t they just take on his arguments in Parliament? This case in my view (is) a serious reflection of the insecurity of those in power.
Dr Ooi Kee Beng, deputy director, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies:  If there were fairness in the judiciary, if we had a judiciary that was beyond reproach, I think he would acquitted… There is more than reasonable doubt. 
So if I look at the whole case at this point, if look at this case as purely judicial, it looks to me that the prosecution has not done its job.
But this is if I assume that the judiciary is beyond reproach.
But I would say the outcome is 50-50. Because you have to consider the real possibility of the politics involved.
In this matter, you just have to suspect that something fishy is going on. I don’t think any analyst can say they do not suspect any political manipulation in this very long trial. Apart from Anwar’s case, how many other Malaysians were charged and convicted of sodomy? And I doubt not a single Malaysian commits sodomy.
John Malott, former United States ambassador to Malaysia: It is hard to predict the outcome, because this case has been politically motivated from the very beginning, going back to Saiful's meeting with Najib (Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak) before the charges were ever filed. 
That is not just my opinion, because governments and human rights organisations around the world have said the same thing. This is a political trial. Think about the fact that only seven cases of this kind have ever gone to court in Malaysia's history, and two of them involved Anwar. 
And of course, both cases were brought at politically opportune moments for the government.
If the judgment is made purely on the facts, then Anwar should be acquitted. Mark Trowell, an Australian lawyer who observed the original High Court trial on behalf of the Inter Parliamentary Union, wrote a 300-page book detailing all the evidence and testimony.
I believe that the High Court made the correct decision. Meanwhile, the Court of Appeal acted more like a kangaroo court, holding hearings and rendering its judgment almost instantaneously, all within the course of two days. 
I was impressed that the Federal Court held hearings over the course of many days and that the questions it asked were not biased. Anwar's new attorney, (Datuk Seri) Gopal Sri Ram, had the government prosecutor on the defensive throughout.
For sure, I hope that Anwar will be found not guilty, and I am moderately hopeful that he will be. But this is Malaysia, and who knows? We have been surprised so many times before. – February 9, 2015.
- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/evidence-points-to-anwars-acquittal-but-only-if-courts-are-free-say-observe#sthash.v3AuEmLC.dpuf


REAKSI PEBAGAI PIHAK;

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/it-is-a-price-we-have-to-pay-for-a-better-malaysia-says-dr-wan-azizah

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/us-uk-concerned-with-anwars-sodomy-verdict

http://www.wsj.com/articles/malaysian-cartoonist-draws-attention-of-police-with-anwar-ibrahim-book-1423429381

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/hadi-says-only-shariah-can-give-anwar-true-justice

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/australian-lawmaker-calls-anwars-verdict-a-travesty-of-justice
Evidence points to Anwar’s acquittal, but only if courts are free, say observers - See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/evidence-points-to-anwars-acquittal-but-only-if-courts-are-free-say-observe#sthash.v3AuEmLC.dpuf
Evidence points to Anwar’s acquittal, but only if courts are free, say observers - See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/evidence-points-to-anwars-acquittal-but-only-if-courts-are-free-say-observe#sthash.v3AuEmLC.dpuf

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Bangunan tertinggi di Malaysia akan dibina di atas bekas tanah milik Sultan Johor?


Nasional
Enam bulan selepas mengejutkan dunia hartanah negara dengan membeli 116 ekar tanah di Johor Bharu bernilai RM4.5 bilion daripada Sultan Johor, pemaju hartanah daripada China, R&F Properties Co Ltd tidak mengambil masa yang panjang untuk membangunkan tanah bernilai tinggi itu.
 
R&F Properties yang berpengkalan di Guangzhou dan disenaraikan di Bursa Saham Hong Kong, merupakan salah sebuah pemaju hartanah terbesar di China.
 
Perancangan syarikat terbabit adalah untuk membangunkan tanah bekas milik Sultan Johor itu menjadi projek hartanah terunggul Johor,  digelar "Princess Cove" yang bakal muncul sebagai mercu tanda ikonik terbaru bandaraya selatan tanah air. 
 
Menurut sumber-sumber kepada Malaysia Gazette, projek hartanah "Princess Cove" di Tanjung Puteri itu bakal menampilkan dua buah bangunan pencakar langit, dengan salah satu daripadanya bakal dinobatkan sebagai bangunan tertinggi di Malaysia, mengatasi Menara Berkembar Petronas.
 
"Bangunan pencakar langit yang bakal menempatkan ofis gred A bakal mempunyai ketinggian melebihi 550 meter dan akan menjadi mercu tanda ikonik terbaru bandar raya Johor Bharu, sebagaimana Menara Berkembar Petronas kepada Kuala Lumpur," kata sumber itu.
 
Sebuah lagi bangunan pencakar langit di projek hartanah "Princess Cove" itu pula akan menempatkan hotel lima bintang.
 
Kedua-dua bangunan pencakar langit itu katanya, terletak bersebelahan pintu masuk Tambak Johor dan berhadapan dengan kompleks Imigresen Singapura. 
 
"Ia (bangunan pencakar langit) itu seolah-olah sebagai mercu tanda ikonik yang akan menyambut kedatangan pengunjung ke Johor menerusi Tambak Johor," kata sumber itu lagi.
 
Selain bangunan pencakar langit yang akan menjadi mercu tanda terbaru Johor Bharu, fasa pertama projek "Princess Cove" itu akan meliputi pembinaan 3,000 kondominium mewah pelbagai saiz dan kompleks membeli-belah, yang dijangka siap 2017.
 
"Di dalam fasa pertama sahaja, akan ada 15 blok kondominium mewah menempatkan lebih 3,000 kondominium mewah yang harganya bakal mencecah jutaan ringgit," katanya sambil menambah, pembeli kondominium itu dijangka rakyat tempatan, Singapura, China dan negara luar termasuk daripada Amerika Syarikat dan Britain.
 
Lawatan Malaysia Gazette ke galeri jualan projek "Princess Cove" di Tanjung Puteri itu mendapati segala kemudahan termasuk rumah contoh telah bersedia untuk menerima pengunjung yang berminat untuk melabur bagi mendapatkannya.
 
Uniknya di galeri jualan itu adalah kesemua kakitangannya daripada pengawal keselamatan hinggalah ke tukang sapu, pembuka pintu, penjaga lanskap, pembancuh kopi, pelayan dan wakil-wakil jualan terdiri daripada warga tanah besar China. -- MALAYSIAGAZETTE
Lakaran artis wajah Princess Cove yang dikatakan bakal mempunyai bangunan tertinggi di Malaysia mengatasi Menara Berkembar Petronas.

 
 

Johor Bahru 'ditawan' pelabur hartanah China

Ekonomi
Jika dilihat dari aspek kepantasan syarikat-syarikat gergasi hartanah China membeli plot-plot tanah di Johor Bharu dan Iskandar Malaysia, besar kemungkinan lanskap bandaraya di selatan tanahair ini bakal menyerupai Shanghai dalam jangkamasa tidak terlalu lama daripada sekarang.
 
Kemungkinan Johor Bharu menjadi "Shanghai Asia Tenggara" sedikit demi sedikit semakin menjadi realiti berikutan kebanjiran syarikat-syarikat hartanah dari negara Tembok Besar China yang membelanjakan berbilion ringgit untuk membeli plot-plot tanah di bandaraya bersebelahan dengan Singapura itu.
 
Tidak dapat dinafikan, syarikat hartanah China yang memiliki kekuatan kewangan kini merupakan pemain paling utama dalam sektor hartanah di Johor Bahru dan Iskandar Malaysia, jauh meninggalkan pelabur-pelabur hartanah daripada negara lain.
 
Walaupun syarikat hartanah tempatan seperti Mah Sing, SP Setia dan lain-lain juga aktif, tetapi skala pelaburan dan projek hartanah mereka adalah jauh lebih kecil berbanding pelabur China itu.
 
Pelabur dari seberang Tambak Johor seperti Temasek dan Capitaland yang mempunyai projek hartanah di Johor Bahru serta Danga Bay juga tidak mampu bersaing dengan "selera besar" pelabur-pelabur China itu.
 
"Johor Bharu dan Iskandar Malaysia kini diibaratkan seperti sungai yang sedang mengalirkan modal-modal yang dilabur oleh syarikat hartanah China," menurut seorang pegawai di syarikat hartanah tempatan yang memiliki projek pembangunan komersial di Medini, Iskandar Malaysia kepada MalaysiaGazette.
 
Sememangnya, senarai syarikat hartanah China yang membuka pejabat di Johor Baharu dan Iskandar Malaysia semakin panjang kebelakangan ini dan melihatkan kepada perkembangan terkini, ia hanya akan bertambah panjang.
 
Terbaru, salah sebuah syarikat hartanah terbesar di China, Kumpulan Greenland yang berpengkalan di Shanghai mengumumkan ia semakin hampir untuk membeli plot-plot tanah di Danga Bay bagi projek hartanah bersepadunya.
 
Pengerusinya Zhang Yuliang berkata, syarikatnya akan membelanjakan RM3 bilion untuk memperolehi tanah di Danga Bay, menerusi perjanjian dengan Iskandar Waterfront Holdings (IWH).
 
Jumaat lepas, beliau mengetuai delegasi Kumpulan Greenland untuk mengadakan perbincangan dengan IWH di Johor Bharu.
 
"Kita menjangkakan akan memeterai perjanjian dengan IWH tidak lama lagi," kata Zhang, dengan sumber mengatakan, Kumpulan Greenland dijangka membeli 60 hektar tanah di Danga Bay.
 
Kumpulan Greenland itu yang merupakan di antara syarikat hartanah milik negara terbesar di China turut  disenarai dikedudukan 359 di dalam Fortune Global 500.
 
Danga Bay yang terletak di Johor Bharu kini merupakan lokasi nombor satu bagi pelabur hartanah antarabangsa dan ia diakui sendiri oleh pengarah urusannya Tan Sri Lim Kang Ho yang berkata, Danga Bay kini merupakan "rumah" untuk projek-projek hartanah bernilai RM125 bilion.
 
Selain Greenland, syarikat gergasi hartanah ketujuh terbesar di China yang turut mempunyai projek hartanah bersepadu di Danga Bay adalah Country Garden Holdings Ltd.
 
Pada 2012, ia telah membelanjakan RM900 juta untuk membeli  tanah di Danga Bay bagi membangunkan projek hartanah bercampur yang mempunyai nilai pembangunan kasar sebanyak RM18 bilion.
 
Termasuk dalam pelan pembangunannya adalah pembinaan 9,000 unit pangsapuri mewah, yang sebaik sahaja dilancarkan pertengahan tahun lepas telah habis dijual, majoritinya kepada pembeli daripada tanah besar China itu sendiri.
 
Pada ketika ini, Country Garden yang disenaraikan di Bursa Hong Kong mempunyai kira-kira 100 projek hartanah yang sedang dilaksanakan di China, Hong Kong, Malaysia dan beberapa negara lain.
 
Sebuah lagi syarikat, Hao Yuan Investment yang dikuasai pemegang saham China turut melabur RM1.6 bilion untuk membeli enam plot tanah seluas 15 hektar di Danga Bay.
 
Ia juga bercadang untuk melancarkan projek hartanah dengan nilai pembangunan kasar berbilion ringgit.
 
Disember tahun lepas, syarikat hartanah China Guangzhou R & F Properties Co Ltd yang turut disenaraikan di Bursa Hong Kong telah membayar RM4.5 bilion untuk membeli enam plot tanah di Johor Bharu daripada Sultan Johor.
 
Zhuoda Real Estate Group, juga diantara pemaju hartanah terbesar di China dengan aset RM25 bilion, telah melancarkan projek hartanah bercampur dengan nilai pembangunan kasar RM2.5 bilion di Medini, Iskandar Malaysia. - MALAYSIAGAZETTE
 

Bakal pembeli rumah pertama bimbang tidak mampu miliki hartanah sendiri

Ekonomi
KUALA LUMPUR: Ramai bakal pembeli rumah pertama bimbang mereka tidak mampu memiliki hartanah sendiri akibat peningkatan harga yang melampau.
Laporan Kajian Sentimen Pasaran Hartanah Asia iProperty.com Asia 2013 mendapati 77 peratus daripada 30,000 responden bimbang mengenai kemampuan mereka untuk membeli rumah.
Terdapat 10 peratus responden pula bimbang mengenai dasar pembiayaan perumahaan dan kadar faedah semasa.
Menurut kajian tersebut, kebanyakan responden berpendapat urusniaga pembelian hartanah dijangka lembap dalam tempoh enam bulan akan datang.
Bagaimanapun, 41 peratus responden merasakan keadaan ekonomi dan persekitaran politik semasa adalah kondusif untuk melakukan pelaburan hartanah.
Kajian tersebut turut menunjukkan terdapat ramai golongan muda yang sedang mencari pelbagai peluang pelaburan termasuk hartanah dengan 29 peratus daripada responden berminat untuk membeli hartanah yang bernilai di Antara RM350,000 hingga RM500,000.
Kajian tersebut laksanakan di kesemua laman web rangkaian kumpulan iProperty di Malaysia, Hong Kong dan Singapura.
 
 

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

LUAHAN HATI ISTERI DATUK SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM





Luahan hati isteri datuk sri anwar ibrahim Datin dr wan azizah ketika suami nya yang dibebaskan dari tuduhan meliwat.

Wan Azizah: KAU makbulkan munajat kami

SHAH ALAM - Pembebasan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim daripada petuduhan liwat sudah diketahui umum. Bagaimana pula dengan isterinya, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail? Apa cerita di sebalik khabar gembira tersebut. Sinar Harian (SH) membawa pembaca menyelami rasa hatinya. Ikuti wawancara eksklusif Editor Sinar Harian, MAZLINDA MOHD NOR bersama Wan Azizah.

ABANG Nuar sudah siap berpakaian. Sudah sedia untuk bersarapan. Seperti biasa semua suplemen yang perlu untuk kesihatannya sudah masuk ke mulut lalu ditelan. Saya sekadar memerhatikan.

Mata menatap sayu. Hati berdetik. Mungkinkah ini sarapan pagi terakhir kami bersama?

"Ya RABB. Jauhilah kami dari berita duka itu."

Abang Nuar seperti dapat membaca kata hati saya.

"Apa juga keputusan mahkamah, keluarga kita tetap bersatu. Hati kita tetap bersama."

Abang Nuar tenang. Saya semakin pilu.

Sudah banyak dugaan yang kami lalui sepanjang kehidupan ini. Sesekali sehingga rasa tidak mampu dipikul manusia biasa sekecil saya. Amat berat.

Namun saya tetap yakin, ALLAH menduga setakat mampu umatnya.


"Ya RAHMAN... jika ini laluan yang ENGKAU tentukan untuk aku, hambamu yang kerdil ini tetap reda. Berilah aku kekuatan. Berilah aku jalan."

Dua setengah tahun hidup kami tertekan, seperti mati perlahan-lahan. Fitnah memang racun yang membunuh.

Kami membina satu kehidupan atas landas Islam. Sentiasa berusaha mendekati TUHAN. Namun semakin kerap kami sujud, semakin besar cabaran mendepan.

"Ya AZIZ... Tuhan Yang Maha Kuat. Lindungilah kami dari fitnah yang menjahanamkan. Ya JALIL... berilah kami kemuliaan.

Anak-anak dan menantu semua sudah sedia.

Ini juga kebesaran TUHAN. Selama ini baik kenduri atau hari raya, kami jarang dapat berkumpul sebegini. Tapi kali ini Izzah, Ilham, Ihsan, Nuha, Muhammad Reza, Nurul Syaheedah, dan Mohd Khairul semua ada. Hati kami bersatu, jiwa kami berpadu.

Mata anak-anak pula saya tatap. Satu persatu, silih berganti.

Ya mereka tenang. Mahu melangkah keluar meneman ayah tersayang tanpa garis-garis kedukaan.

Melihat mereka, semangat saya datang kembali. Benar kata Abang Nuar, apa juga keputusan mahkamah kami akan tetap bersama.

Malam tadi, pulang dari ceramah di Kampung Pandan malam sudah bertemu pagi. Kami kelaparan. Sambil menjamu perut di meja makan, kami bercerita, Tentang zaman sekolah, filem dan pelbagai. Kami ketawa bersama. Bahagia. Bagai tiada lara. Tiada nestapa.

Mungkinkan saat itu akan dapat diulang lagi?

"Ya RAHMAN... Engkau lebih tahu dan mengerti kasih sayang antara kami. Jangan kau putuskan Ya RABB. Jangan ada penghalang. Jangan biar jeriji besi itu memisahkan kami sekali lagi!"

Sepanjang perjalanan ke mahkamah, saya tidak pernah berhenti berdoa. Moga apa yang bermain di fikiran TUHAN akan terbalikkan.


Luar Kompleks Mahkamah Jalan Duta sudah penuh dengan manusia. Saya terasa gementar. Namun saya mesti kuat. Kami sudah menghampiri bangunan yang akan menentukan nasib Abang Nuar hari ini. Jadi kekuatan dan ketabahan yang saya tunjukkan tentu akan memberi tambahan semangat untuk Abang Nuar berhadapan dengan apa juga keputusan yang memungkinkan.

Melihat wajah Hakim Datuk Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah, hati saya kembali tidak keruan. Mula berbolak-balik. Akan disabit bersalahkan Abang Nuar? Atau lepas?

Sejujurnya saya sudah serik untuk mengulang episod sedih 1998. Saya sudah letih untuk diheret dalam kedukaan panjang. Jika abang Nuar disabit bersalah... walau anak-anak kini sudah besar, kedukaan kami tidak ada bezanya. Malah lebih berganda.

Apakan tidak, jasad yang sudah dipanjat usia, fizikal dan jiwa sudah tidak sekuat dulu. Berita sedih yang kami terima sudah pasti merentap segala rasa.


"Mahkamah mendapati Anwar tidak bersalah dan memutuskan mahkamah tidak dapat memastikan 100 peratus integriti sampel asid deoksiribonuleik (DNA) tidak terusik. Mahkamah tidak boleh bergantung kepada bukti DNA tersebut. Maka mahkamah ditinggalkan dengan keterangan pengadu. Bagaimanapun, mahkamah keberatan untuk mensabitkan tertuduh hanya berdasarkan keterangan pengadu yang tidak disokong.

"Oleh itu, tertuduh dilepas dan dibebaskan."

"Ya ALLAH... rahmat apakah yang KAU berikan kepada kami.

"Ya SAMIE’...terima kasih kerana mendengar rintihan kami selama ini."

Abang Nuar bebas!

Saya menangis. Anak-anak menangis.

Saya merangkul erat Abang Nuar. Abang Nuar membalas kejap. Saya tidak mampu mengeluarkan kata-kata. Sekadar mengucap syukur kepada ALLAH.

Saya perhati anak-anak. Mereka juga berpelukan.

Saat ini terasa lerai derita dari tubuh. Lerai sengsara dari jiwa.

‘Ya ‘ALIEM...ENGKAULAH yang lebih mengetahui.

"Ya HAKIM... ENGKAULAH sebenarnya yang menetapkan keputusan segala sesuatu.

"Syukur Ya ALLAH kerana mengizinkan kami melangkah keluar dari mahkamah dengan hati gembira."

Dalam perjalanan pulang, kami singgah di Masjid Segambut. Menunaikan solat Syukur tanda terima kasih kepada TUHAN.

Hari ini dada kami sudah lapang. Senyum kami masih bersisa walau tangis misih ada.

"Terima kasih Ya ALLAH. KAU jawab munajat kami, KAU lerai derita kami." -SH