FREEDOM OF SPEECH / FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION


FREEDOM OF SPEECH / FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

Freedom of speech is the freedom to speak without censorship and/or limitation. The synonymous term freedom of expression is sometimes used to indicate not only freedom of verbal speech but any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used [United Nations, 1966, 1976]. The right to freedom of speech is recognized as a human right under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and recognized in international human rights law in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The ICCPR recognizes the right to freedom of speech as "the right to hold opinions without interference. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression". Furthermore freedom of speech is recognized in European, inter-American and African regional human rights law [United Nations, 1966, 1967]. Freedom of speech, or the freedom of expression, is recognized in international and regional human rights law. The right is enshrined in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Article 13 of the American Convention on Human Rights and Article 9 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights [Andrew Puddephatt & Hodder Arnold, 2005; Kumar, Ambika, 2006].

In Islamic ethics freedom of speech was first declared in the Rashidun period by the caliph Umar in the 7th century. In the Abbasid Caliphate period, freedom of speech was also declared by al-Hashimi (a cousin of Caliph al-Ma'mun) in a letter to one of the religious opponents he was attempting to convert through reason.

According to George Makdisi and Hugh Goddard, "the idea of academic freedom" in universities was "modelled on Islamic custom" as practiced in the medieval Madrasah system from the 9th century. Islamic influence was "certainly discernible in the foundation of the first deliberately-planned university" in Europe [Boisard, Marcel A., 1980].

* Selected REFERENCES / Sources:


Amnesty International: Annual Reports: URLhttp://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/index.html Andrew Puddephatt & Hodder Arnold. (2005). Freedom of Expression: The Essentials of Human Rights. United Publishers. Boisard, Marcel A. (July 1980), "On the Probable Influence of Islam on Western Public and International Law", International Journal of Middle East Studies 11 (4): 429–50. Goddard, Hugh. (2000). A History of Christian-Muslim Relations. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Kumar, Ambika. (2006). ‘Using Courts to Enforce the Free Speech Provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.’ Published by Chicago Journal of International Law. Summer 2006. URLhttp://www.allbusiness.com/corporate-governance/4082846-1.html United Nations: ‘International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.’ Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16th December 1966: Entry into force 23 March 1976, in accordance with Article 49. URLhttp://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr.htm (United Nations) Wikipedia. (2010). ‘Freedom of Speech.’ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. URLhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_expression

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31 December 2011

CEO mengaku tidak bersalah


(31 Dec 2011)

CEO mengaku tidak bersalah

Oleh SITI NOORALINA AHMAD
pengarang@utusan.com.my

Shamsubahrin Ismail dituduh menipu dengan memperdayakan Mohamad Salleh Ismail di Mahkamah Sesyen, Kuala Lumpur, semalam.

KUALA LUMPUR 30 Dis. – Ahli perniagaan, Datuk Shamsubahrin Ismail mengaku tidak bersalah di Mahkamah Sesyen di sini hari ini atas dua tuduhan menipu pengarah syarikat National Feedlot Corporation Sdn. Bhd. (NFC), Datuk Seri Dr. Mohamad Salleh Ismail membabitkan pemberian cek bernilai RM1.755 juta, bulan lalu.


Shamsubahrin, 45, yang merupakan Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif (CEO) syarikat Shamsubahrin Ismail Resources Sdn. Bhd. memohon dibicarakan sebaik sahaja pertuduhan selesai dibacakan kepadanya di hadapan Hakim Ahmad Zamzani Mohd. Zain.

Tertuduh yang beralamat di Bukit Jelutong, Shah Alam didakwa menipu Mohamad Salleh dengan menjanjikan kepada mangsa satu perkhidmatan rundingan dan nasihat yang pada pengetahuan tertuduh tidak benar.

Perbuatan itu bertujuan memperdaya suami kepada Menteri Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat, Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil itu sehingga mendorong mangsa bersetuju membayar wang perkhidmatan tersebut.

Tertuduh didakwa melakukan perbuatan itu di sebuah restoran di Bukit Tunku di sini pada pukul 6 petang, 20 November lalu.

Bagi tuduhan kedua, Shamsubahrin didakwa memperdaya Mohamad Salleh sehingga mendorong mangsa menyerahkan cek berjumlah RM1.755 juta kepada tertuduh. Perbuatan itu didakwa dilakukannya di kawasan Solaris Mont Kiara di sini antara 25 November dan 6 Disember lalu.

Kedua-dua pertuduhan tersebut dikemukakan mengikut Seksyen 420 Kanun Keseksaan yang memperuntukkan hukuman penjara maksimum 20 tahun dan denda jika sabit kesalahan.

Ketua Bahagian Perundangan dan Pendakwaan Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM), Datuk Abdul Razak Musa mencadangkan jaminan RM300,000 dengan seorang penjamin dan syarat tertuduh menyerahkan pasport antarabangsa kepada mahkamah.

Menurut beliau, jumlah jaminan tersebut adalah munasabah memandangkan pertuduhan terhadap tertuduh melibatkan penyerahan cek bernilai jutaan ringgit.

Bagaimanapun, peguam bela, J. Rao yang mewakili tertuduh memohon jumlah yang lebih rendah berikutan anak guamnya yang menanggung seorang isteri dan empat anak telah memberikan kerjasama kepada pihak SPRM sepanjang siasatan.

Ahmad Zamzani kemudian menetapkan jaminan RM300,000 dengan seorang penjamin serta memerintahkan tertuduh menyerahkan pasport antarabangsa kepada mahkamah sebagai syarat jaminan sehingga kes selesai.

Beliau turut menetapkan 21 Januari ini untuk sebutan semula kes itu.

Shamsubahrin gagal menjelaskan wang jaminan ekoran kaunter pembayaran telah ditutup menyebabkan tertuduh dihantar ke Penjara Sungai Buloh.



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24 December 2011

SPRM Siasat Pejabat NFC !!




(24 DEC 2011)


SPRM siasat pejabat NFC dua jam


WAN Abdul Rahman Wan Mohd. Saleh (kanan) bersama pegawai-pegawainya membawa dokumen penting keluar dari pejabat NFC berhubung skandal di Bukit Kiara, Kuala Lumpur, semalam.

KUALA LUMPUR 23 Dis. - Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) hari ini mengambil masa dua jam untuk menyiasat pejabat Perbadanan Fidlot Nasional (NFC) di Jalan Solaris, Bukit Kiara di sini bagi membantu siasatan dakwaan penyelewengan isu dana membabitkan syarikat itu dan pembelian kondominium mewah di ibu negara.

Lapan pegawai SPRM, diketuai Penguasa Wan Abdul Rahman Wan Mohd. Salleh dilihat memasuki pejabat NFC itu sejak pukul 3 petang dan keluar kira-kira pukul 5 petang bagi mencari bahan yang boleh membantu siasatan.

Sebaik sahaja keluar, mereka dilihat membawa bersama empat sampul surat mengandungi dokumen-dokumen berkaitan termasuk sebuah unit pemprosesan pusat (CPU).

Sementara itu, Pengarah Siasatan SPRM, Datuk Mustafar Ali berkata, pemeriksaan yang dilakukan petang ini mendapat kerjasama baik daripada semua kakitangan NFC.

"Tiada tangkapan dilakukan hari ini, hanya beberapa dokumen yang berkaitan disita bagi membantu siasatan berhubung isu NFC.

"Masih terlalu awal juga untuk SPRM memaklumkan status siasatan. Saya minta semua pihak beri ruang kepada SPRM untuk menyiasat secara terperinci berhubung isu ini," katanya ketika dihubungi Utusan Malaysia hari ini.

SPRM baru-baru ini memaklumkan, tindakan pengumpulan bukti dan keterangan telah bermula sejak isu berkenaan dilaporkan dalam Laporan Audit Negara 2010 yang menyatakan projek tersebut tidak mencapai sasaran yang telah ditetapkan oleh pihak kerajaan.

SPRM telah menerima aduan daripada satu pertubuhan bukan kerajaan (NGO) yang mendakwa berlaku penyalahgunaan wang pinjaman yang diperolehi oleh NFC bagi membeli kondominium mewah berharga RM9.8 juta yang dibeli di Lembah Klang.



21 December 2011

SEX TAX in Germany !

http://au.pfinance.yahoo.com/photos/photo/-/11649680/ridiculous-taxes-from-around-the-world/11649687/ (21 Dec 2011)

Sex Tax (Germany)



Prostitution is legal in Germany - but it is heavily taxed - Prostitutes have to pay income taxes and even have to charge VAT (GST), for their services, which is then paid to the tax office. While it's fairly easy to collect a "sex tax" from brothels, "sauna clubs," and other sex purveying establishments, it's trickier to make sure freelance streetwalkers pay up. But authorities in the German city of Bonn have found a way to fix this issue. The city now requires street prostitutes to pay a vending machine, similar to a parking metre, and collect a ticket before they go about their business.


Comment: Talking about a profession that has among the lowest moral outlook from the society, but what is the all low is that there are people, institutions and government, collecting taxes or money from these 'low moral sex workers' ... so who is 'morally lower' than these sex workers?!




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17 December 2011

Lelaki Melayu Kahwin Lelaki Mat Saleh !


Pemuda Melayu 'kahwin' lelaki?

Oleh ILAH HAFIZ AZIZ
pengarang@utusan.com.my


GAMBAR yang diambil daripada sebuah laman web, perkahwinan pasangan gay melibatkan seorang pemuda Melayu dan lelaki Inggeris bergambar bersama jemputan di suatu lokasi dipercayai di luar negara.

KUALA LUMPUR 16 Dis. - Seorang pemuda Melayu mencetuskan kontroversi apabila beberapa keping gambar perkahwinannya dengan seorang lelaki warga asing, tersebar di dalam sebuah laman web bigayweddingproject.com.

Apa yang mengejutkan, pada majlis perkahwinan sejenis yang dipercayai berlangsung dalam sebuah gereja di luar negara, pemuda berusia lingkungan 20-an itu memakai baju Melayu berwarna hitam, lengkap bersamping serta tanjak berwarna emas.

Pasangannya yang dianggarkan berusia lewat 30-an pula mengenakan busana sut lengkap warna hitam yang biasanya dipakai ketika majlis perkahwinan masyarakat Barat.

Laman web yang dipercayai menyokong perkahwinan homoseksual itu telah memuatkan sebanyak 15 keping gambar sepanjang majlis 'perkahwinan' itu berlangsung.

Antara yang disiarkan adalah pasangan itu bergambar di dalam kumpulan dan sedang diraikan setelah selesai menjalani proses bergelar 'suami-isteri'.

Terdapat dua keping gambar lelaki warga asing itu sedang bersiap sedia melangsungkan perkahwinan sambil dibantu rakan-rakannya.

Turut menarik perhatian ialah gambar yang menunjukkan lelaki Melayu itu disarungkan cincin oleh pasangannya.

Menurut keterangan yang dipaparkan bersama kepingan gambar yang dipercayai dimuatkan pada 20 September itu, pasangan terbabit merupakan klien pertama bagi projek penggambaran majlis perkahwinan golongan homoseksual dikendalikan laman web berkenaan.


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Comment:

Gay and lesbian marriages, so much talk and lots of publicity by the mass media, making us believing that they are must be a 'very large number' of gays and lesbians out there, but the FACT is, the gays and lesbians are so small in number, that it is possible to even named and counted them (i.e. due to their very very small number, in comparison with the very large population of a country).

Why then are the gays and lesbians receive so much publicity then? That's because its all boil down to 'business as usual' in the mass media industry - making MONEY from the stories they published - and because the story is 'unusual', henceforth this 'unusualness' will create demand for such story, and hence, sell like hot cakes.

Coming to the conclusion, STILL, that does not meant that the number of gays and lesbians are large in number (to demand anything from the government, as to their special needs), so don't be deceived by such tactics, such as, the Gay and Lesbian Movements, and the so-called Human Rights Movement for Gays and Lesbians, etc.

WHAT right? When ALL religions, Christianity, Islam, and even Hinduism, Buddhism, prohibit such unusual (filthy) marriage!! It was even written clearly in the Bible and Quran that such a 'filthy marriage' will soon receive God's wrath, retribution and punishment, in this world and the Hereafter!

Note: I further believe that the 'increasing' occurrences or incidents of natural disasters, such as, floods, hurricanes, Tsunami, to droughts and landslides, to name a few, are all due to the acts of disobedience to God's commandments and prophetic's teachings.



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07 December 2011

LAW in Saudi Arabia !!


[Blasphemy = 1. disrespect for religion: disrespect for God or sacred things 2. something showing disrespect for religion: something done or said that shows disrespect for God or sacred things (Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved)].

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AUSTRALIAN FACES 500 LASHES FOR BLASPHEMY
ABC
Updated December 7, 2011, 12:24 pm

The family of an Australian man sentenced to a year in jail and 500 lashes in Saudi Arabia says he will not survive the punishment.

Mansor Almaribe, a 45-year-old father of five from Shepparton in northern Victoria, was found guilty of blasphemy by a Saudi Arabian court yesterday.

Almaribe had travelled to the country for a pilgrimage to Mecca and was arrested nearly a month ago. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) says the judge initially handed down a sentence of two years in jail and 500 lashes, but then cut the jail time.

One of the man's sons, Mohammed, says his father has serious health problems. "Five hundred slashes on his back, and he has back problems. I wouldn't think he'd survive 50," he said.

She says Almaribe did not have legal representation because he could not afford it, and will not lodge an appeal in case his sentence is extended.


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06 December 2011

IBU KAHWIN ANAK KANDUNG SENDIRI !!



Komen:


Sudah berzina dengan anak kandung sendiri, tidak pula dikenakan hukuman penjara, atau disebat, atau direjam?! Kebebesan apa yang dipakai di Indonesia?! Undang-undang apa yang dipakai di Indonesia. Mana pergi ulama-ulama yang hebat, atau mahasiswa-mahasiswi yang menggegarkan media massa?! Waduhhhh, sungguh aku tak mengerti kedua-dua orang Indonesia ini?! Tunggulah TUHAN turunkan hukuman yang amat pedas nanti !!

Kalau bapak kahwin dengan anak gadisnya, bukankah itu dikira ROGOL?! Ibu kahwin anak jantan pula tak apa, dibolehkan?! Itu namanya DOUBLE STANDARD !!

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Source:

AKHIR ZAMAN ....

IBU KAHWIN ANAK KANDUNG SENDIRI !!
Posted on the December 4th, 2011

INDONESIA - Tidak tahu hendak mula di mana tapi penulis sendiri ada rasa hendak muntah sepanjang menonton dan mendengar klip yang mana seorang ibu sanggup kahwin dengan anak lelakinya sendiri. Pengakuan (Confession) itu dirakamkan dalam program d’show di negara jiran (Indonesia).

Sudah la ibu dan anak itu tidak malu, di kalangan penonton ada yang bertudung dan bersorak-sorak seolah-olah apa yang mereka saksikan itu macam tidak ada apa-apa serta satu bentuk hiburan.

Benda gila itu boleh pula dibincangkan seperti satu benda ilmiah (dan hiburan). Si ibu siap ada sebut Alhamdulillah lagi (minit 2.01). Mereka juga berkata bersama ketika anak-anak lain sudah tidur. Yang paling tidak masuk akal bila perempuan si ibu itu berkata; “Yang penting saya nggak berzina sama orang, sama anak sendiri”.

Penulis melihat perempuan tua itu sebagai mengambil kesempatan pada anaknya sendiri. Anaknya berkata dia menolak hubungan itu tetapi dipaksa ibunya. Apa pun, jijiknya perangai kedua-dua manusia ni. Penulis harap benda seperti ini jangan sama sekali dijadikan ikutan. Tolonglah. Dan…patut direjam sahaja dua beranak gila ini .... !!

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Jangan Ditiru Emak Kahwini ANAK




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AUSTRALIAN FACES 500 LASHES FOR BLASPHEMY
ABC
Updated December 7, 2011, 12:24 pm


COMMENT: WE welcome the Indonesian couple above to stay/live/visit Saudi Arabia, and continue their relationship there!! Talking about Islam in Indonesia?! They are all confused about religion, and their social life!

[Couple = Two people who are married, and are living together, OR have an intimate relationship (Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved)].



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