Police Lodge Report Against Malaysiakini.com
Police Lodge Report Against Malaysiakini.com
KOTA BAHARU, Aug 2 (Bernama) -- Acting Kelantan CID chief Supt Shafie Ismail has lodged a police report over an article posted on a website which claimed that the police were behind the pepper spray incident involving former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
Shafie said the report against Malaysiakini.com was lodged at the Kota Baharu police station at 4.25 pm on July 31.
He said the report posted on the website which stated former Pasir Mas Member of Parliament Datuk Paduka Ibrahim Ali was sprayed with pepper by the police in the incident at the Sultan Ismail Petra Airport in Pengkalan Chepa last Friday was defamatory.
The police report was lodged to enable police to conduct investigations, he added.
A businessman, who is a "Datuk", was detained in connection with the pepper spray incident on Friday and was released after his remand expired yesterday.
The businessman's legal counsel Zainal Abidin Mustafa said a report stating that his client was released on police bail and that police had obtained an order to impound his passport was inaccurate.
Meanwhile, Kelantan police chief Datuk Zulkifli Abdullah, in a statement issued to Bernama today, said police had applied to release the businessman on bail and for his passport to be impounded but was dismissed by the court.
However, he said police were still investigating the case and follow-up action had been taken pending instructions from the Attorney-General's Chambers.
-- BERNAMA
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.--E. B. White:
PM: Those who spread untruths on the Net will be detained
KUALA TERENGGANU: The Prime Minister has issued a warning – those who spread untruths and slander on the Internet will face the law.
If information in blogs, websites and online portals were incorrect, bordered on slander, caused disturbance or compelled the public to lose faith in the nation’s economic policies, their authors would be detained for investigation, said Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
“We cannot allow such matters to flow through uncontrolled,” he told newsmen after attending a briefing on the proposed Islamic Civilisation Park in Pulau Wan Man here.
“They say all kinds of things, make all kinds of dubious claims. We cannot allow them to abuse the freedom earned under the media. If left alone, they can say or pass on all kinds of things.”
Abdullah also said that those who sent out such information via short message system (SMS) would also be held accountable.
“If they abuse the freedom – more than the present freedom given without any restriction – we cannot allow it,” he declared.
“Where in the world is there such a freedom, where one can freely spread incorrect information and slander without having to own up to it?”
Asked if he was calling for a control mechanism, Abdullah said he would leave it to the police to investigate first.
It was reported recently that the Internal Security Ministry was investigating several online sites following a string of misreporting that caused tension and confusion among Internet users.
(The Star)
To the fellow bloggers, do take note.
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.---Demosthenes:
KOTA BAHARU, Aug 2 (Bernama) -- Acting Kelantan CID chief Supt Shafie Ismail has lodged a police report over an article posted on a website which claimed that the police were behind the pepper spray incident involving former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
Shafie said the report against Malaysiakini.com was lodged at the Kota Baharu police station at 4.25 pm on July 31.
He said the report posted on the website which stated former Pasir Mas Member of Parliament Datuk Paduka Ibrahim Ali was sprayed with pepper by the police in the incident at the Sultan Ismail Petra Airport in Pengkalan Chepa last Friday was defamatory.
The police report was lodged to enable police to conduct investigations, he added.
A businessman, who is a "Datuk", was detained in connection with the pepper spray incident on Friday and was released after his remand expired yesterday.
The businessman's legal counsel Zainal Abidin Mustafa said a report stating that his client was released on police bail and that police had obtained an order to impound his passport was inaccurate.
Meanwhile, Kelantan police chief Datuk Zulkifli Abdullah, in a statement issued to Bernama today, said police had applied to release the businessman on bail and for his passport to be impounded but was dismissed by the court.
However, he said police were still investigating the case and follow-up action had been taken pending instructions from the Attorney-General's Chambers.
-- BERNAMA
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.--E. B. White:
PM: Those who spread untruths on the Net will be detained
KUALA TERENGGANU: The Prime Minister has issued a warning – those who spread untruths and slander on the Internet will face the law.
If information in blogs, websites and online portals were incorrect, bordered on slander, caused disturbance or compelled the public to lose faith in the nation’s economic policies, their authors would be detained for investigation, said Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
“We cannot allow such matters to flow through uncontrolled,” he told newsmen after attending a briefing on the proposed Islamic Civilisation Park in Pulau Wan Man here.
“They say all kinds of things, make all kinds of dubious claims. We cannot allow them to abuse the freedom earned under the media. If left alone, they can say or pass on all kinds of things.”
Abdullah also said that those who sent out such information via short message system (SMS) would also be held accountable.
“If they abuse the freedom – more than the present freedom given without any restriction – we cannot allow it,” he declared.
“Where in the world is there such a freedom, where one can freely spread incorrect information and slander without having to own up to it?”
Asked if he was calling for a control mechanism, Abdullah said he would leave it to the police to investigate first.
It was reported recently that the Internal Security Ministry was investigating several online sites following a string of misreporting that caused tension and confusion among Internet users.
(The Star)
To the fellow bloggers, do take note.
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.---Demosthenes:
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