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Dadah: Hukuman mati mungkin dipinda ke penjara seumur hidup - PM Shakira Buang Diterbitkan 18 Feb 2020, 5:43 petang | Dikemaskini 18 Feb 2020, 6:46 petang

Kerajaan akan menilai dan mengkaji semula dasar serta undang-undang berkaitan penyalahgunaan dadah di negara ini termasuk hukuman mati mandatori. Perdana Menteri, Dr Mahathir Mohamad berkata, langkah tersebut diambil bagi mengambil pendekatan yang lebih rasional dalam usaha menangani masalah berkenaan mengikut trend semasa. “Saya percaya sudah sampai masanya kita menilai dan mengkaji semula semua undang-undang berkaitan pengedaran dan penyalahgunaan dadah mengikut kesesuaian perubahan trend dadah semasa,” katanya ketika berucap dalam majlis pelancaran Bulan Anti Dadah Kenangsaan 2020 di Putrajaya, hari ini. Mengulas lanjut perkara itu, Dr Mahathir berkata undang-undang tersebut perlu dikaji kerana ia dilihat terlalu keras. “Kita kaji undang-undang kerana undang-undang-undang sekarang ini amat keras, kalau didapati sesiapa memiliki sekian banyak dadah, maka hukuman yang boleh dijatuhkan adalah hukuman mati. “Maka banyak yang berpendapat bahawa ia tidak berkesan, masih ada mereka yang mencari duit yang tidak halal dengan mengedar dadah. “Kita akan kaji sama ada dakwaan ini betul atau tidak, dan kita dapati ada cara lain dalam undang- undang yang boleh mencegah penyalahgunaan dadah, atau pengedaran dadah, maka kita akan pinda undang-undang, pada masa sama,” katanya dalam sidang media selepas majlis pelancaran program tersebut. Bagaimanapun, Dr Mahathir berkata mereka yang menjadi penagih dadah tidak dianggap sebagai penjenayah. “Namun demikian adalah penting bagi kita faham bahawa penyalahgunaan dadah adalah satu perkara yang tidak baik, yang akan bawa mudarat, bukan sahaja kepada diri kita tetapi kepada keluarga, masyarakat dan kepada negara,” katanya. Ambil kira perubahan semasa

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Sementara itu, Dr Mahathir dalam ucaptamanya turut berkata, langkah-langkah penguatkuasaan dan rawatan pemulihan dadah oleh pihak berkuasa juga perlu diambil perhatian dengan mengambil kira perubahan semasa. Katanya, ia bagi mempertingkatkan lagi usaha menangani penyalahgunaan dadah agar menjadi lebih tersusun dan berkesan. Menurut Dr Mahathir, pihak yang menawarkan perkhidmatan rawatan dan pemulihan dadah juga harus memahami keperluan pendekatan diberikan seperti yang disarankan oleh National Institute of Drug Abuse. “Prinsip rawatan dan pemulihan dadah yang berkesan perlu difahami bahawa tiada rawatan tunggal yang sesuai untuk semua orang. “Penyedia perkhidmatan rawatan dan pemulihan dadah, ahli-ahli lembaga pelawat, Jawatankuasa Pemulihan Dadah Daerah dan termasuk mereka yang mengendalikan Pusat Pemulihan Dadah Persendirian perlu mengintegrasikan pendekatan rawatan dan pemulihan yang lebih menyeluruh dengan mengambil kira prinsip rawatan pemulihan dadah yang berkesan,” katanya. Tambah Dr Mahathir, trend penyalahgunaan dadah kini sudah berubah daripada dadah konvensional berasaskan tumbuhan seperti ganja, morfin dan heroin kepada jenis sintetik yang lebih memudaratkan. Justeru, tambahnya, adalah menjadi kebimbangan kepada kerajaan dalam peningkatan permintaan terhadap dadah sintetik seperti Methamphetamine serta munculnya dadah psikoaktif jenis baru (NPS) di pasaran Asia. "Kini muncul ratusan bahan psikoaktif baru di seluruh dunia. Pada 2009, hanya 130 jenis NPS dilaporkan. Dari tempoh 2009 sehingga 2019 pula, jumlah jenis NPS yang dilaporkan dari 119 buah negara adalah sebanyak 892 jenis. "Dadah menjadi sumber pendapatan mudah dan lumayan yang menjadi tarikan berterusan kepada penjenayah tertentu. Jumlah nilai rampasan pada 2019 adalah sebanyak RM3.53 billion, berbanding 2018 sebanyak RM0.58 billion. "Nilai rampasan yang diperoleh ini menunjukkan bahawa pengedar dadah sanggup melakukan apa sahaja untuk mengaut keuntungan daripada kesengsaraan orang lain," katanya.

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Pesara didenda RM5,000 kerana sebar berita palsu Covid-2019 Bernama Diterbitkan 12 Feb 2020, 1:20 tengahari Seorang pesara Jabatan Keretapi Negeri Sabah hari ini didenda RM5,000 atau 10 bulan penjara jika gagal membayar denda itu bagi kesalahan menyebarkan berita palsu berhubung jangkitan Covid-19. Majistret Suhailla Selag menjatuhkan hukuman itu ke atas Aliuudin Amit, 67, selepas dia mengaku bersalah atas pertuduhan secara sedar mengedarkan satu kenyataan dalam aplikasi WhatsApp mengatakan seorang banduan meninggal dunia kerana Covid-19 di Penjara Sandakan. Kesalahan itu dilakukan di Lot 70, Jalan Selunsung, Taman Sempelang, Kota Kinabalu pada 9.34 malam, 23 Jan lepas. I k la n Edaran kenyataan itu telah dibaca oleh pegawai di Pejabat Timbalan Penguasa Jabatan Penjara Sandakan pada 10.46 pagi, 24 Jan lepas. Aliuudin didakwa mengikut Seksyen 505 (b) Kanun Keseksaan yang memperuntukkan hukuman penjara maksimum dua tahun atau boleh dikenakan denda atau kedua-duanya, jika sabit kesalahan. Ketika rayuan, Aliuudin, yang tidak diwakili oleh peguam, berjanji tidak akan mengulangi kesalahan itu dan bertegas dia tidak berniat untuk mengaibkan sesiapa atas perbuatannya itu. Timbalan Pendakwa Raya Franklin Ganggan Bennet memberitahu mahkamah rayuan itu bukan faktor utama untuk pertimbangan hukuman ringan. Sebaliknya, beliau berkata mahkamah perlu mengutamakan kepentingan awam berikutan kesalahan itu adalah serius dan boleh menyebabkan ketakutan dan kegusaran dalam kalangan masyarakat. Aliuudin membayar denda itu. Bermula semalam Pertubuhan Kesihatan Sedunia mengisytiharkan Covid-19 sebagai nama rasmi bagi jangkitan novel koronavirus 2019. -Bernama Rujukan : https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/510525

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BERITA 'Pemandu mabuk sebabkan kematian bakal berdepan penjara sehingga 20 tahun' Bernama Diterbitkan 13 Feb 2020, 11:05 malam | Dikemaskini 13 Feb 2020, 11:22 malam Pemandu yang didapati bersalah kerana memandu di bawah pengaruh alkohol, dadah dan memandu secara berbahaya hingga menyebabkan kematian dicadangkan dikenakan hukuman penjara sehingga 20 tahun, kata Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri (Undang-undang) Liew Vui Keong. Beliau berkata Kabinet secara prinsipnya bersetuju dengan cadangan Kementerian Pengangkutan (MOT) untuk mengenakan hukuman yang lebih berat terhadap pemandu yang membuat kesalahan tersebut. “Saya serahkan kepada MOT untuk ambil langkah menggubal undang-undang di Dewan Rakyat. Mereka yang cuai atau mabuk kenalah ambil tanggungjawab dan pastikan diberi hukuman setimpal sekiranya didapati bersalah,” katanya kepada media selepas Majlis Amanat Tahun Baru 2020 Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri (Undang-Undang), di Putrajaya hari ini. Pada 29 Jan lalu, Menteri Pengangkutan, Anthony Loke, berkata Akta Pengangkutan Jalan (APJ) 1987 akan dipinda untuk memberi hukuman lebih berat kepada mereka yang memandu di bawah pengaruh alkohol dan dadah serta memandu secara berbahaya hingga mengakibatkan kematian. Loke dilaporkan berkata ia melibatkan pindaan tiga seksyen di bawah APJ 1987 iaitu Seksyen 41, 44 dan 45. Pada masa ini, pesalah jalan raya yang memandu secara berbahaya dan di bawah pengaruh alkohol dikenakan hukuman mengikut Seksyen 41(1) APJ 1987 yang memperuntukkan hukuman penjara minimum dua tahun dan maksimum 10 tahun serta denda tidak kurang RM5,000 dan tidak lebih RM20,000. Ditanya mengenai cadangan pihak tertentu supaya pemandu mabuk yang membabitkan kemalangan maut didakwa mengikut Seksyen 304 Kanun Keseksaan kerana menyebabkan kematian tanpa niat, Liew berkata, kesalahan jalan raya adalah tertakluk di bawah APJ 1987. Menurutnya, ia terpulang kepada budi bicara mahkamah selepas meneliti hujahan pihak pendakwa raya. -Bernama Rujukan : https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/510753

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BERITA Pemandu mabuk sebabkan kematian bakal dipenjara 20 tahun - Lim Bernama Diterbitkan 15 Feb 2020, 2:42 tengahari Individu yang didapati bersalah memandu di bawah pengaruh alkohol, dadah dan memandu secara berbahaya hingga menyebabkan kematian dicadang dikenakan hukuman denda sehingga RM100,000. Menteri Kewangan Lim Guan Eng berkata kerajaan sedang merangka untuk meminda hukuman terhadap kesalahan itu dengan hukuman penjara bagi pesalah akan turut ditingkatkan kepada 20 tahun berbanding 10 tahun ketika ini. "Kerajaan sedang merangka untuk meminda hukuman bagi Seksyen 41 (Akta Pengangkutan Jalan 1987) ini bagi mereka yang telah menyebabkan kemalangan sehingga menyebabkan kematian apabila memandu dalam keadaan mabuk," katanya. Beliau berkata demikian kepada pemberita selepas menziarahi lima beradik yang kehilangan bapa mereka, Khairizul Mohamad Noor, 39, selepas dilanggar pemandu kereta dipercayai mabuk dalam kejadian Ahad lepas, di kediaman keluarga itu di Jalan Hj Mohd Saad, dekat Bagan Jermal, di Butterworth hari ini. Menurutnya, pada masa ini hukuman di bawah seksyen berkenaan memperuntukkan penjara maksimum 10 tahun dan denda tidak melebihi RM20,000. Beliau berkata kadar kematian akibat kemalangan jalan raya di Malaysia agak tinggi iaitu antara yang tertinggi di dunia. "Jadi, kita harus mendapat kerjasama daripada orang ramai sungguh pun kadar sebenarnya sudah menurun tetapi kita harap kita dapat mengurangkan kadar itu. Kita tidak mahu lihat hampir 7,000 korban nyawa berlaku hampir setiap tahun akibat kemalangan jalan raya," katanya. Terdahulu, Lim yang juga Ahli Parlimen Bagan meluangkan masa menyantuni lima beradik itu dan turut menyampaikan wang sumbangan sebanyak RM5,000. "Sebelum ini, pihak kerajaan negeri, agensi dan Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat termasuk pejabat Parlimen Bagan telah menyampaikan sumbangan kepada keluarga ini dan saya ucapkan takziah kepada keluarga ini dan harap ibu kanak-kanak ini akan cepat sedar dan sembuh. Kita akan terus berikan bantuan dan perhatian kepada keluarga ini," katanya.

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Dalam nahas kira-kira pukul 5 pagi 9 Feb lepas, Khairizul meninggal dunia di tempat kejadian manakala isterinya, Zuriana Hasan, 36, yang cedera parah kini dirawat di Hospital Seberang Jaya, dalam keadaan koma. Dalam kejadian itu, motosikal yang ditunggang pasangan suami isteri itu dilanggar dari belakang oleh sebuah kereta yang dipandu seorang lelaki dipercayai dalam keadaan mabuk di Kilometer 140.2 Lebuhraya Utara Selatan menghala utara, susur ke Perai di Bukit Mertajam. - Bernama Rujukan : https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/510942

BERITA Tertuduh kes bunuh pengurus bank dibenar kemuka semakan kehakiman News | Diterbitkan 19 Feb 2020, 6:32 petang | Dikemaskini 19 Feb 2020, 6:32 petang Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur hari ini membenarkan seorang pegawai Teknologi Maklumat, yang terlibat dalam insiden baran jalanan sehingga menyebabkan kematian seorang pengurus bank di Lebuhraya Utara Selatan berhampiran Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor tahun lepas, mengemukakan semakan kehakiman bagi mencabar pertuduhan membunuh yang dihadapinya. Bercakap kepada pemberita selepas prosiding itu, peguam Wee Choo Keong yang mewakili Yew Wei Liang, 42, berkata Hakim Datuk Seri Mariana Yahya membuat keputusan tersebut selepas mendengar hujah pemohon dan responden. Peguam Kanan Persekutuan Shamsul Bolhassan hadir bagi pihak Peguam Negara (AG) yang dinamakan sebagai responden dalam permohonan itu. "Pada masa pemohon didakwa, tiada laporan kimia, tiada laporan bedah siasat dan tiada laporan forensik. Dia didakwa tetapi tidak ada sijil izin untuk mendakwa daripada AG. I k la n "Sekarang kami menyatakan bahawa kami ingin menyemak ketidakpatuhan prosedur oleh AG kerana kes-kes seperti ini semakin banyak di Mahkamah Majistret," kata Wee sambil menambah bahawa Mahkamah Tinggi telah menetapkan 4 Mac sebagai tarikh pengurusan kes. Yew didakwa membunuh Syed Muhammad Danial Syed Shakir berhampiran KM293.6 Lebuhraya Utara Selatan antara pukul 1 tengah hari dan 2 petang pada 10 Ogos 2019. "Anak guam saya telah didakwa pada 22 Ogos tahun lepas di Mahkamah Majistret Kajang mengikut Seksyen 302 Kanun Keseksaan tetapi AG hanya memberikan izin pendakwaan sehari sebelum kes itu dipindahkan ke Mahkamah Tinggi Shah Alam pada 9 Dis tahun yang sama," kata Wee. Dalam permohonan itu, Yew memohon agar izin pendakwaan mengikut Seksyen 177A(1) Kanun Tatacara Jenayah berkaitan pemindahan sesuatu kes untuk dibicarakan di Mahkamah Tinggi,

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NEWS UPDATES 2020 diisytiharkan sebagai mala fide atau dilakukan dengan niat jahat, dan satu perintah untuk membatalkan pertuduhan membunuh terhadapnya. Sekitar pukul 1.40 tengah hari pada 10 Ogos 2019, Syed Muhammad Danial, 29, telah didakwa dibunuh susulan pergaduhan berkaitan satu kemalangan kecil dengan Yew di KM239 Lebuhraya Utara Selatan yang menghala ke selatan berhampiran persimpangan Bandar Baru Bangi. Yew dan Syed Danial dikatakan terlibat dalam insiden kejar-mengejar membabitkan sebuah kereta serta perbalahan yang berlaku antara mereka di persimpangan Bandar Baru Bangi, dan Syed Danial meninggal dunia ketika menerima rawatan di sebuah hospital. Polis kemudian menahan Yew dan isterinya bagi membantu siasatan mengikut Seksyen 302 Kanun Keseksaan. Kedua-duanya ditahan reman selama seminggu sehingga 17 Ogos 2019 dan isteri Yew telah dibebaskan. Yew ditahan di penjara Sungai Buloh sehingga hari ini sementara menunggu kesnya selesai. - Bernama Rujukan : https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/511455

MALAYSIA COURT POLITICS & GOVERNMENT M'sian on death row to appeal as S'pore court dismissed bid to challenge clemency plea rejection

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February 13, 2020 12:18 pm +08

SINGAPORE (Feb 13): Malaysian Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, who is on death row, will appeal against yesterday’s decision by the Singapore High Court which dismissed his bid to start a court challenge against the rejection of his clemency plea. “Pannir will be appealing the decision. So, the matter isn't over yet. We have a month to file the notice of appeal,” said his counsel Too Xing Ji when contacted by Bernama today. The application to start a court challenge was heard in chambers by Justice See Kee Oon on Feb 11 and the decision was made the next day.

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The Singapore Court of Appeal had on May 23, 2019, granted Pannir’s application to stay his execution and enable him to challenge the clemency process. Pannir, 32, who was scheduled to be executed on May 24, filed the stay application from prison pending a challenge upon the rejection of clemency. The letter from the Singapore President refusing clemency and the notification of execution were both dated May 17, 2019, but the letter notifying his family of the execution was posted out on May 16, 2019. In his affidavit, the President's principal private secretary had reportedly said he signed the letters on May 7 but post-dated them by 10 days to May 17. He had also reportedly said that before May 7, the President had been advised by the Cabinet that the law should be allowed to take its course. Pannir was convicted on June 27, 2017 by the Singapore High Court for trafficking in 51.84g of diamorphine at Woodlands Checkpoint on Sept 3, 2014. Rujuk link : https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/msian-death-row-appeal-spore-court-dismissed-bid- challenge-clemency-plea-rejection

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POLITICS & GOVERNMENT Govt retiree fined RM5,000 for spreading fake news on Covid-19

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February 12, 2020 13:51 pm +08 SANDAKAN (Feb 12): A former employee of the Sabah State Railway Department was fined RM5,000, in default of 10 months’ jail, by the Magistrate’s Court here today for spreading fake news on Covid-19. Magistrate Suhailla Selag meted out the fine on Aliuudin Amit, 67, who is now a retiree, after he pleaded guilty to the offence. He was charged with circulating a statement conducing to public mischief through a Whatsapp application on a prisoner in Sandakan Prison who died from Covid-19, the official name given by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for the 2019 novel coronavirus.

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The offence was committed at Lot 70, Jalan Selunsung, Taman Sempelang, Kota Kinabalu, at 9.34pm last Jan 23. The statement was read by an officer of the Sandakan Prison at 10.46am the following day. The charge was framed under Section 505(b) of the Penal Code, which provides an imprisonment for up to two years, or fine, or both, if found guilty. In mitigation, Aliuudin, unrepresented, promised not to repeat the mistake and that he had no intention of causing embarrassment to anyone with his action. Deputy public prosecutor Franklin Ganggan Bennet prosecuted. Aliuudin paid the fine. Rujuk link : https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/govt-retiree-fined-rm5000-spreading-fake-news- covid19

WORLD CORPORATE Samsung's jailed board chairman quits Reuters/Reuters

February 14, 2020 17:47 pm +08

SEOUL (Feb 14): Samsung Electronics' board Chairman Lee Sang-hoon, who was convicted and jailed for sabotaging union activities, has resigned from the South Korean company, it said on Friday. The resignation comes less than two years after Lee's appointment split the chairman and chief executive roles for the first time in an effort to enhance transparency and independence of the world's top memory chip manufacturer in the wake of a corruption scandal involving group heir Jay Y Lee. "Samsung suffered a major setback to its bid to strengthen its board ... and it would need a fresh face to turn around," said Park Ju-gun, head of research firm CEO Score, adding that the move was widely expected given that Lee Sang-hoon is in prison. play_arrow Samsung said Lee's successor will be appointed in the near future and could be picked from remaining members of its board, which consists of six external directors and three internal executives. Those include the three CEOs of Samsung's components, mobiles and consumer electronics divisions.

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The change at the top comes as Jay Y Lee faces trial on charges that he bribed a friend of former president Park Geun-hye to win government favour over succession planning at the conglomerate. Criticized by a judge overseeing Lee's bribery case for its lack of an effective compliance system, Samsung and some of its key affiliates have recently appointed external experts to a new oversight panel to stamp out criminal conduct. Lee Sang-hoon was given a 1-1/2 year jail sentence in December for sabotaging legitimate union activities. He has appealed against the decision. Samsung's board chairman is not involved in day-to-day business operations but chairs a board meeting to review and approve major business decisions including investment plans. The company is expected to hold a shareholder meeting in March. https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/samsungs-jailed-board-chairman-quits

Opposition leader tells cops to probe drug allegations in Sabah prison

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Sabah Progressive Party president Yong Teck Lee is worried that any illegal action by prison officers will be detrimental for other prison staff, inmates and society as a whole. KOTA KINABALU: An opposition leader has called for a thorough investigation into a claim that a senior Prison Department officer here was found having drugs in his possession. Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) president Yong Teck Lee said the authorities should look into this allegation by a local daily here to uncover the full facts behind the matter. “This is because the prison is a place for punishment and rehabilitation of inmates, including those convicted for illegal drug cases. “If prisons officers are somehow involved in illicit drugs for whatever purpose, then this is a serious matter that can undermine law enforcement against pushers and the rule of law,” he said in a statement here today.

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Yong was commenting on a Daily Express report yesterday which claimed a senior Prisons Department officer was found with half a kilogramme of syabu. The report also alleged the officer resigned within 24 hours two weeks ago. Sabah deputy police chief Zaini Jass told the paper that police had not arrested anyone from the state Prisons Department for drug possession. Kota Kinabalu Central Prison director Pen Teyun said he had “no comment” on the drug seizure allegation. Yong was worried that any illegal action by prison officers will be detrimental for other prison staff, inmates and society as a whole. “Sabah must learn from the harsh experiences of other countries such as the Philippines where the main prison in Manila, the New Bilibid Prison, was reported to be a haven for illicit drug dealings run by government officials. “Several government officials were later sacked,” he said. Refer link : https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2020/02/12/opposition-leader-tells- cops-to-probe-drug-allegations-in-sabah-prison/

Russian ex-prison boss commits suicide in court AFP - February 12, 2020 11:05 PM MOSCOW: A former top official in the Russian prison service shot and killed himself in a Moscow court on Wednesday shortly after being jailed for extortion, a court spokeswoman said. Viktor Sviridov, who previously headed the prison service’s transport department, “committed suicide in the courtroom by shooting himself in the chest”, a spokeswoman for Moscow City Court told AFP. She did not provide further details. The pistol Sviridov used was given to him as an award, his lawyer Alexander Kotelnitsky told Rossiya 24 television. Sviridov had pleaded guilty to extorting US$159,000 from a former deputy director of the prison service. The Chertanovo district court sentenced him to three years in a penal colony.

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His sentence was less than the maximum possible term of 15 years because he had been diagnosed with advanced cancer, Russian media reported. It was unclear how the former official, who had been living at home while subject to a travel ban, managed to bring a gun into a court with metal detectors at the entrance. The Moscow City Court spokeswoman said investigators were “looking into the circumstances”. Investigations into corruption in the prison service have uncovered rampant violations involving officials and several have killed themselves. A former head of the prison service, Alexander Reimer, was sentenced to eight years in 2017 for embezzling millions of dollars of state funding allocated to buy electronic bracelets. Refer link : https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2020/02/12/russian-ex-prison-boss- commits-suicide-in-court/

Yemen govt, rebels reach agreement on large prisoner swap

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Houthis and the govt of Yemen have been at war for years. (AFP pic) DUBAI: The internationally recognised government of Yemen and Houthi rebels agreed on a detailed plan to release some of the thousands of prisoners taken captive in their five- year civil war. A spokesman for the Iran-backed rebels, Mohammed Abdusalam, said Sunday that the agreement reached in Jordan would involve the swap of 1,400 prisoners, including Saudis and Sudanese supporting Yemen government forces. Implementation would be a rare fulfilment of provisions of a 2018 blueprint for ending the war, which has touched off the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. “Today, despite ongoing clashes, we saw that the parties have found common humanitarian ground that will allow many detainees to return to their loved ones,” said Franz Rachenstein, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a.

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“This is very encouraging and will hopefully lay the ground for further releases in a near future.” A coalition led by Saudi Arabia entered the Yemen war in March 2015 after Houthis took control of Sana’a the previous year. Refer link : https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2020/02/17/yemen-govt-rebels-reach- agreement-on-large-prisoner-swap/

Govt retiree fined RM5,000 for spreading fake news on Covid-19  NATION  Wednesday, 12 Feb 2020 1:45 PM MYT SANDAKAN (Bernama): A former employee of the Sabah State Railway Department was fined RM5,000, in default 10 months’ jail, by the magistrate’s court here Wednesday (Feb 12) for spreading fake news on the Covid-19 coronavirus. Magistrate Suhailla Selag meted out the fine on Aliuudin Amit, 67, who is now a retiree, after he pleaded guilty to the offence. He was charged with circulating a statement conducing to public mischief through WhatsApp that a prisoner in Sandakan Prison had died of Covid-19, the official name given by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for the novel coronavirus. The offence was committed at Lot 70, Jalan Selunsung, Taman Sempelang, Kota Kinabalu, at 9.34 pm on Jan 23. The statement was read by an officer of the Sandakan Prison at 10.46am the following day. The charge was framed under Section 505(b) of the Penal Code, which provides for imprisonment of up to two years, or a fine, or both, if found guilty. In mitigation, Aliuudin, who was unrepresented, promised not to repeat the mistake and that he had no intention of causing embarrassment to anyone with his action. Deputy public prosecutor Franklin Ganggan Bennet prosecuted. Aliuudin paid the fine. - Bernama Reference : https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020/02/12/govt-retiree-fined-rm5000-for- spreading-fake-news-on-covid-19

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Inmates set fire to overcrowded prison in western Indonesia

 INDONESIA  Wednesday, 12 Feb 2020 5:25 PM MYT

Soldiers, firemen and police officers trying to put out the fire from Kabanjahe prison during a riot in Kabanjahe, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on Wednesday (Feb 12). Angry inmates set fire to the overcrowded prison on Indonesia's Sumatra island during a riot that erupted Wednesday, officials said. - AP

MEDAN: Angry inmates set fire to an overcrowded prison on Indonesia's Sumatra island during a riot that erupted Wednesday, officials said.

Hundreds of police and soldiers were deployed to take control of Kabanjahe prison in North Sumatra province, which is designed to house 193 inmates but now has more than 400, said Sri Puguh Budi Utami, director general of corrections at the Justice and Human Rights Ministry.

She said it was guarded by only eight officials.

Utami said the cause of the riot is still being investigated.

A preliminary investigation showed it began after prisoners protested against the guards' treatment of four inmates who were placed in isolation after being caught taking drugs into their cell, she said.

Other inmates, mostly arrested for drug offensives, joined the protest and it turned violent, but there were no reports of deaths, Utami said.

Television video showed prisoners in an open field under heavy guard by soldiers while police removed others from the prison compound. Black smoke billowed from a building, and burned

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Local police chief Benny Hutajulu said eight fire trucks were mobilized to extinguish the fire and about 500 police and soldiers were deployed around the prison to prevent inmates from escaping.

Jailbreaks and riots are common in Indonesia, where overcrowding has become a problem in prisons that are struggling with poor funding and large numbers of people arrested in a war on illegal drugs. Reference : https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/02/12/inmates-set-fire-to-overcrowded- prison-in-western-indonesia

Widowed, imprisoned, detained: remnants of Islamic State in limbo in Syria

 WORLD  Wednesday, 12 Feb 2020 7:01 PM MYT By Goran Tomasevic and Issam Abdallah

A boy stands inside al-Roj camp, Syria, January 10, 2020. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) - In northeastern Syria, prisons and detention camps hold thousands of men, women and children whose lives are in limbo nearly a year after the final defeat of Islamic State to which they once belonged. The area around Qamishli city is mainly controlled by Kurdish fighters who helped defeat the Islamist militant group. They have since been pushed into a small pocket of northeastern Syria by Turkish-led forces who consider them a security threat. Kurdish forces bear the brunt of looking after those captured as Islamic State collapsed, including hundreds of foreigners who fought alongside local militants to create a self-declared caliphate in the Middle East.

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What to do with the remnants of Islamic State, whose fighters tortured and executed thousands of people during its zenith from 2014, is a thorny issue for countries whose citizens went to fight with the group. Many European countries, for example, have hesitated to repatriate nationals, fearing a public backlash if they do. Europeans comprise a fifth of the roughly 10,000 Islamic State fighters held captive in Syria by Kurdish militias. Kurdish officials say they lack the resources to properly detain, investigate and prosecute the large number of prisoners as well as their families in camps. They have called repeatedly on foreign nations to take back their citizens. "We want to know what our fate is," said Mahmoud Mohammad, an IS fighter from Syria held by Kurdish forces in a prison near the town of Hasaka, south of Qamishli. "We don't know anything about our families," he told Reuters in an interview arranged and supervised by Kurdish security forces during a sanctioned visit to the jail. "We don't know if they're alive or dead, in Syria or outside. I want to know my sentence and my fate." Mohammad, whose nom de guerre is Abu Hamza, was one of nine men interviewed by Reuters in two prisons - one located near Hasaka and the other the town's central jail. Most were from Syria or Iraq, one was from the United States and another from Belgium. Some were fighters, others said they were corralled into working for Islamic State as the movement won territory across Syria and Iraq. "I worked with (Islamic State) as a civilian," said Abdurrahman Mustafa al-Jomaa, a 32-year-old Syrian from Raqqa, who was being held at the central Hasaka jail. "My sentence is 2 years. I'm married and have two children. My family is in Raqqa and they come and visit me." CROWDED PRISON, SPRAWLING CAMP Conditions in the prison near Hasaka, which used to be a school before being transformed to cope with the influx of captives, were markedly worse than those at the central jail. Reuters reporters saw more than 50 men lying head-to-toe across the floor of one cell, leaving virtually no room to move. Natural light was minimal and the air was heavy with the smell of sweat and dirt. In a hospital on the ground floor, about 100 men crowded on to around half the number of beds suffering from ailments and injuries. Several were in orange jumpsuits, similar to those often worn by IS captives before they were executed. Beyond the prisons, thousands of mostly woman and children are detained in camps in the area. The al-Hol facility in Hasaka province is the biggest and holds tens of thousands of people in a sprawling camp of white canvas tents that provide minimal shelter from the winter cold and rain. Children play on muddy paths and large puddles full of refuse collect in open spaces. Women wearing black robes and niqabs move around in small groups, chatting or carrying out daily chores. Most women approached by Reuters for an interview declined and some were verbally hostile.

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One who agreed to talk did not give her name, but spoke in broken English and said she was originally from Hong Kong before coming to the Middle East to join Islamic State. "I have one child and my husband died in Baghouz," she said, flanked by her toddler son. The town of Baghouz, Islamic State's last enclave in eastern Syria, fell to U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in spring last year. The woman said she was in touch with her family in Hong Kong but did not want to return. "I know here the situation is very difficult. This is not home, it's just a tent ... but we all live to (the wishes of) Allah, so God-willing, all is good." (Writing by Mike Collett-White; Editing by Alexandra Hudson) https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2020/02/12/widowed-imprisoned-detained-remnants-of- islamic-state-in-limbo-in-syria

M'sian on death row to appeal S'pore courts dismissal of bid to challenge clemency plea rejection

 NATION

 Thursday, 13 Feb 2020 11:41 AM MYT SINGAPORE (Bernama): Malaysian Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, who is on death row in Singapore, will appeal against Wednesday's (Feb 12) decision by the republic's high court which dismissed his bid to challenge the rejection of his clemency plea. "Pannir will be appealing the decision. So, the matter isn't over yet. We have a month to file the notice of appeal," said his counsel Too Xing Ji. The application to start a court challenge was heard in chambers by Justice See Kee Oon on Feb 11 and the decision was made the next day. The Singapore court of appeal had on May 23,2019, granted Pannir's application to stay his execution and enable him to challenge the clemency process. Pannir, 32, who was scheduled to be executed on May 24, filed the stay application from prison pending a challenge upon the rejection of clemency. The letter from the Singapore President refusing clemency and the notification of execution were both dated May 17,2019, but the letter notifying his family of the execution was posted out on May 16,2019. In his affidavit, the President's principal private secretary had reportedly said he signed the letters on May 7 but post-dated them by 10 days to May 17.

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He had also reportedly said that before May 7, the President had been advised by the Cabinet that the law should be allowed to take its course. Pannir was convicted on June 27,2017 by the Singapore High Court for trafficking in 51.84g of diamorphine at Woodlands Checkpoint on Sept 3,2014. – Bernama https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020/02/13/m039sian-on-death-row-to-appeal-s039pore- courts-dismissal-of-bid-to-challenge-clemency-plea-rejection

Singapore working with UK on 'final stages' of extraditing StanChart robber

 ASEAN+  Thursday, 13 Feb 2020 5:09 PM MYT

David James Roach, a Canadian national, will face charges of robbery and money launderin. - Bangkok Post

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The Attorney-General's Chambers and the Singapore Police Force are working with British authorities on the final stages of extraditing David James Roach, the man wanted for an alleged bank robbery here in 2016. Roach, a Canadian national, will face charges of robbery and money laundering, both agencies said in a joint statement on Thursday (Feb 13). "The Singapore authorities will do whatever is necessary and permissible within our legal framework to seek justice against those who commit crimes in Singapore, regardless of nationality and where they might have fled to," they added. "We will also not hesitate to take firm action against these individuals, and will seek an appropriate sentence if they are convicted." Roach, who is accused of robbing Standard Chartered Bank's Holland Village branch of s$30,450 on July 7,2016, fled to Thailand the same day. He was subsequently arrested there in July 2016 and deported by Thailand to Canada in January 2018, after serving a prison term for criminal offences.

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He was arrested by the London Metropolitan Police's Extradition Unit in January 2018 while on transit there. In October 2018, Roach was ordered to be extradited. He appealed against this decision, but was rejected. He then renewed this application to appeal, which was granted in October 2019. However, this permission to appeal was limited to his extradition on the money laundering charge. On Feb 4, the UK High Court heard and dismissed Roach's appeal. The judge was not convinced by his claim that there was abuse of process when his conviction in Thailand was weighed against one of the charges he is wanted for in Singapore. - The Straits Times/Asia News Network https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/02/13/singapore-working-with-uk-on-039final- stages039-of-extraditing-stanchart-robber

Less jail term for confidante of ousted S. Korea leader  NATION  Saturday, 15 Feb 2020

Seoul: The secret confidante of former South Korean president Park Geun-hye, who played a central role in the corruption scandal that toppled the disgraced ex-leader, has had her prison sentence cut by two years in a retrial.

Choi Soon-sil – who became close to Park through her father, a shadowy religious figure – initially received a 20-year prison term in 2018 for using her presidential connections to force companies to donate to foundations she controlled, among other charges.

The scandal exposed shady links between big businesses and politics in South Korea, with vice- chairman Lee Jae-yong of tech giant Samsung Electronics convicted of bribery, embezzlement and other offences.

Park was brought down in 2017 after huge street protests triggered by allegations that she and Choi took bribes in return for government favours.

But South Korea’s Supreme Court last year sent Choi’s case back to a lower court for a retrial – along with those of Park and Samsung’s Lee – saying yesterday that she should not be found guilty on some of the coercion charges. — AFP https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020/02/15/less-jail-term-for-confidante-of-ousted-s-korea- leader

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Rogue border security member finds redemption behind bars

 NATION  Tuesday, 18 Feb 2020 KOTA BARU: Blinded by greed, Mat (not his real name) was willing to risk his job as a member of the border security forces to traffic drugs. The long arm of the law eventually caught up with Mat, who is now in his 30s. It was while languishing in a Thai prison that he turned over a new leaf. It all started when he was posted to the Malaysian-Thai border in 2007. There, in the small Thai town of Danok, he stumbled on a quick way to earn some money – peddling syabu (methamphetamine). In Thailand, said Mat, just a single gramme of syabu cost about RM600. Since syabu was easily available in the area where he patrolled, he became a drug user and turned to trafficking it. “I didn’t have to use a single sen of my money to buy the drug as it was supplied to me by the kingpins who smuggled contraband across the border, ” he said. Mat, who is married to a Thai woman and has an 11-year-old daughter, said he sold syabu at various entertainment centres in Danok for seven years before he was arrested by Thai police in April 2013. He was eventually sentenced to three years in jail and fined 200,000 baht (about RM20,000 based on the exchange rate then). He was imprisoned at Natthawi Prison in Songkhla province. Mat, who now works as a security guard in Kelantan, said it was fortunate he obtained a royal pardon and his prison term was cut to two years, six months and two days. Life changed one Friday while he was doing some tailoring work. “I heard someone whispering... telling me to perform Friday prayers. That was when I started my journey to become a better person, ” he said. While in prison, Mat fasted for eight months to “replace all those days when I failed to fast”. Mat, who speaks Thai fluently, is grateful his wife and family members from Kelantan visited him several times. But he did not get to meet his daughter as he forbade his wife from bringing the girl, who was only about five years old then. Disciplinary officers from the Malaysian border patrol forces also visited Mat to hand over show- cause and termination letters to him.

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“I’m grateful that in my service record, it is stated that I was dismissed because I faced 13 counts of not reporting for duty. This allowed me to find a job after I was released from prison in November 2015, ” he said. Mat urged the public to avoid falling into the trap of unhealthy activities, adding that they should learn from his experience. “It would have been far better for me if I had remained loyal to my work as I could have enjoyed all the privileges given to civil servants. Anyway, I cannot turn the clock back and can only accept it as my fate, ” he said. — Bernama

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Prisoner 3870, alias 'El Chapo,' appears in rare Mexican video

 WORLD  Wednesday, 19 Feb 2020 3:14 AM MYT

FILE PHOTO: Recaptured drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted by soldiers at the hangar belonging to the office of the Attorney General in Mexico City, Mexico January 8, 2016. REUTERS/Henry Romero

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Clad in a beige uniform marked "3870," the captured drug kingpin answered the Mexican prison guard's questions calmly, barely looking up as he scrubbed black fingerprint ink from his hands. Alias? "El Chapo." Occupation? "Farmer." The interview is part of a four-year-old video released this week which appears to offer rare footage of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman, who is now under lock and key for life at a top- security U.S. prison. Obtained by news site Latinus, the seven-minute video and accompanying photos show Mexican law enforcement registering a man matching the appearance of Guzman at the Altiplano prison in 2016. (https://bit.ly/38CLgza). The man in the images has the same haircut, features and build as Guzman on the day of his arrest, and his prison clothes and haircut match later images of the gangster behind bars.

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Guzman’s arrest followed two earlier escapes - one via a mile-long tunnel from the same jail - that had humiliated the Mexican government. It was not immediately clear how Latinus obtained the video, or why it surfaced now. Mexico's security ministry did not respond to a request for comment on its authenticity, which Reuters was unable to independently confirm. Juan Pablo Badillo, a lawyer for Guzman in Mexico since 2014, said his impression was that the video appeared in line with the facts of what happened that day. Guzman was extradited in 2017 to the United States, where he was convicted of trafficking tons of cocaine, heroin and other drugs as leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. After escorting Guzman inside Altiplano, guards searched him and shaved his thick moustache and mop of black hair, according to the photos obtained by Latinus. Guzman then responded to a seemingly routine questionnaire: 58 years old. Primary school education. Mother alive. Pants size 34. And his wife's name? "The one I'm married to is Alejandrina Salazar," he answered, head bowed as he worked to clean the ink from his hands. "But the one I live with is Emma Coronel." The feared criminal whose nickname means "Shorty" in English proceeded to sign a document, tugging at his uniform to check the inmate number emblazoned across his chest. The footage of Guzman, who grew marijuana as a boy in Sinaloa state, shows his hands dotted with freckles and liver spots. Guards searched Guzman again before leading him to a bleak cell outfitted with a grey cement bench. They handed him a puffy jacket, a thin mattress and two rolls of toilet paper before locking the door. (Reporting by Daina Beth Solomon in Mexico City; Editing by Matthew Lewis and Tom Brown) https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2020/02/19/prisoner-3870-alias-039el-chapo039-appears-in- rare-mexican-video

Trump adviser Stone sentenced to 3-1/3 years in prison for lying in Russia probe

 WORLD  Thursday, 20 Feb 2020 7:34 PM MYT By Sarah N. Lynch and Jan Wolfe

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FILE PHOTO: Roger Stone, former campaign adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives for his criminal trial on charges of lying to Congress, obstructing justice and witness tampering at U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S., November 6, 2019. REUTERS/ Tom Brenner

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday sentenced President Donald Trump's long-time adviser Roger Stone to three years and four months in prison and said his lies to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election amounted to a threat to American democracy. In a stern lecture during a 2-1/2-hour sentencing hearing for the veteran Republican operative, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson also delivered an implicit rebuke to Trump, who has attacked her along with the jury and prosecutors in the high-profile case. "There was nothing unfair, phoney or disgraceful about the investigation or the prosecution," Jackson said, citing words that the Republican president has used. Stone's lawyer had asked that he get no prison time. The 67-year-old Stone, who has been a friend and adviser to Trump for decades, was convicted on Nov. 15 on all seven counts of lying to Congress, obstruction of justice and witness tampering. "He was not prosecuted - as some have complained - for standing up for the president. He was prosecuted for covering up for the president," Jackson said. "The truth still exists. The truth still matters," Jackson added. "Roger Stone's insistence that it doesn't, his belligerence, his pride in his own lies are a threat to our fundamental institutions - to the very foundation of our democracy." The judge also said Stone "knew exactly what he was doing" when he posted an image on social media last year that positioned a gun's cross-hairs over her head. "The defendant engaged in threatening and intimidating conduct toward the court," Jackson said. "This is intolerable to the administration of justice." Stone, who still has a sealed pending motion requesting a new trial, declined to speak at the hearing. Clad in a dark grey pinstripe suit with a polka dot handkerchief in the pocket, Stone stood at a lectern as the judge announced the sentence. After leaving, Stone told reporters, "I have nothing to say." In a chaotic scene outside the courthouse, Stone walked through a throng of people with a slight smile on his face and climbed into a waiting vehicle. Trump has stoked speculation he may pardon Stone. A prominent Trump ally, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, wrote on Twitter after the sentencing that the president has "all the authority in the world" to review the case.

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Democratic congressman Adam Schiff, who now heads the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee to which Stone was convicted of lying, wrote on Twitter, "It should go without saying, but to pardon Stone when his crimes were committed to protect Trump would be a breathtaking act of corruption." The White House had no immediate reaction. On Tuesday, Trump granted clemency to prominent convicted white-collar criminals including financier Michael Milken and former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Jackson's sentence fell well short of the seven to nine years that were initially recommended by the original prosecutors in the case before they were overruled by the Justice Department after Trump complained publicly. Those prosecutors quit the case. The judge said such a sentence was "unnecessary" for Stone, who has no prior criminal record. "This was still a very substantial sentence, especially for a non-violent, first time offender of his age," said Mark Allenbaugh, a consultant who formerly worked for the U.S. Sentencing Commission.

'A HUMAN BEING' Defence attorney Seth Ginsberg said Stone's career as a self-described "dirty trickster" overshadowed other aspects of a spiritual man who has served as a mentor, loves animals and is devoted to his family. "Mr. Stone is, in fact, not simply that public persona, but a human being," he said. Stone was convicted of lying to the Intelligence Committee about his attempts to contact WikiLeaks, the website that released damaging emails about Trump's 2016 Democratic election rival Hillary Clinton that U.S. intelligence officials have concluded were stolen by Russian hackers. The judge noted that Stone was not charged with or convicted of having any role in conspiring with Russia. But Jackson said Stone's effort to obstruct a congressional investigation into Russian election meddling "was deliberate, planned - not one isolated incident." The investigators were not some "secret anti-Trump cabal," the judge said, but members of Congress from both parties at the time when the committee was controlled by the president's fellow Republicans. Stone's career as a Republican operative has stretched from the Watergate scandal era of the early 1970s to Trump's campaign four years ago. Stone has labelled himself an "agent provocateur" and famously has the face of former President Richard Nixon tattooed on his back. Wearing sunglasses and a dark fedora as he entered the courthouse accompanied by an entourage of family, friends and lawyers, Stone strode past a giant inflatable rat dressed as Trump and a sign calling for his pardon. One onlooker shouted: "Traitor!" The charges stemmed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation that detailed Russian meddling in the 2016 election to boost Trump's candidacy. Stone was one of several Trump associates charged in Mueller's inquiry. As the hearing got underway, Trump complained on Twitter that the Justice Department should have prosecuted the former head of the FBI, James Comey, and his former deputy, Andrew McCabe, for what the president said was lying. The Justice Department investigated but opted not to prosecute either man.

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"FAIRNESS?" Trump asked on Twitter. After prosecutors made their sentencing recommendation last week, Trump blasted them as "corrupt" and railed against this "miscarriage of justice." U.S. Attorney General William Barr intervened and the Justice Department overruled the recommendation. Congressional Democrats have accused Trump and Barr of politicizing the U.S. criminal justice system and threatening the rule of law. Jackson had sharp words for John Crabb, the prosecutor newly installed on the case after the original prosecutors quit. "I fear you know less about the case ... than just about every other person in this courtroom apart from the defence attorney who just joined this team," Jackson told him. (Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch and Jan Wolfe; Additional reporting by Makini Brice and David Morgan; Editing by Andy Sullivan and Will Dunham) https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2020/02/20/trump-adviser-stone-to-be-sentenced-in-case-that- has-roiled-washington

Explainer: Who is Roger Stone and why does he face prison?

 WORLD  Thursday, 20 Feb 2020 4:08 AM MYT By Jan Wolfe

(Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday is scheduled to sentence Roger Stone, a long-time adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, in a criminal case that has roiled the Justice Department and drawn the Republican president's ire. Here is a look at Stone's career, the charges against him and why the case has become a rallying cry for Trump.

WHO IS ROGER STONE? Stone, 67, is a colourful Republican political operative, known for his high-end wardrobe and tattoo on his back of former President Richard Nixon. In the 1980s, Stone co-founded a lobbying firm that represented dictators including Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines and Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire. One of his partners in that venture, Paul Manafort, would go on to serve as chairman of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. A self-described "dirty trickster" and "agent provocateur," Stone has taken credit for uncovering the prostitution scandal that brought down Democratic New York Governor Eliot Spitzer in 2008. In 2016, Stone was the only source quoted on the record in a National Enquirer article claiming that Senator Ted Cruz, then a Trump campaign rival, had five secret mistresses. Cruz denied the claims.

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Stone advised Trump when the wealthy real estate developer toyed with running for president in 2000 and briefly worked on Trump's successful 2016 campaign. Steve Bannon, who served as the campaign's chief executive, testified that Stone boasted about his connections to the WikiLeaks website, which released damaging emails about Trump's Democratic election rival Hillary Clinton that U.S. intelligence officials have concluded were stolen by Russian hackers. HOW DID STONE'S CASE COME ABOUT? Stone was indicted by Robert Mueller, the former special counsel tasked with investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. Mueller's investigation, which Trump called a "witch hunt," led to criminal charges against dozens of people, including Trump associates such as Manafort and former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The investigation detailed Moscow's campaign of hacking and social media propaganda aimed at boosting Trump's candidacy and documented multiple contacts between his campaign and Russia. Mueller's investigation did not establish a criminal conspiracy involving Trump and Russia and the special counsel did not reach a conclusion on whether Trump unlawfully obstructed the inquiry. WHAT WAS STONE CONVICTED OF? A federal jury in Washington convicted Stone in November on seven counts of lying to Congress, obstruction of justice and witness tampering. At trial, prosecutors said Stone told five different lies to lawmakers on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee about his contacts with the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks. Prosecutors said Stone pressured a witness, comedian Randy Credico, to lie to lawmakers, instructing him to "do a Frank Pentangeli" - a reference to a character who recants his congressional testimony against a mobster in the 1974 film "The Godfather Part II." Stone's lawyers said his misstatements were unintentional and that his comments to Credico, such as "prepare to die," reflected a history of banter between the men. WHY IS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL UNDER PRESSURE? Prosecutors in the case last week recommended a prison sentence of seven to nine years only to have their superiors at the Justice Department declare that excessive and withdraw the recommendation. The four prosecutors resigned, and Attorney General William Barr faced criticism by congressional Democrats and others that he was politicizing the criminal justice system. Trump has criticized not only the prosecutors but the jurors and U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who has presided over the case. He has kept up his attacks even after Barr said in an interview with ABC News that Trump's comments "make it impossible for me to do my job." Barr has considered stepping down, according to a source familiar with the matter. Trump has sidestepped questions about whether he will pardon Stone. "We're going to see what happens," Trump said on Tuesday. (Reporting by Jan Wolfe; Additional reporting by Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Andy Sullivan and Will Dunham) https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2020/02/20/explainer-who-is-roger-stone-and-why-does-he- face-prison

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BERITA»Nasional Khamis, 13 Februari 2020 | 6:56pm

KERAJAAN bersetuju pemandu mabuk dikenakan hukuman lebih berat seperti penjara 20 tahun. Cadang penjara 20 tahun kepada pemandu mabuk

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PUTRAJAYA: Kerajaan akan meminda Akta Pengangkutan Jalan 1987 bagi mengenakan hukuman lebih berat bagi kesalahan memandu secara berbahaya dan di bawah pengaruh alkohol sehingga menyebabkan kematian. Menteri Di Jabatan Perdana Menteri (Undang-Undang), Datuk Liew Vui Keong, berkata pindaan undang-undang itu membabitkan denda lebih tinggi, termasuk hukuman penjara sehingga 20 tahun terhadap pemandu mabuk. Menurut beliau, Kementerian Pengangkutan akan meneliti pindaan akta berkenaan kerana penguatkuasaan dilakukan oleh Jabatan Pengangkutan Jalan (JPJ). “Secara prinsipnya, kerajaan bersetuju dengan pengubalan akta itu kerana pihak yang bertanggungjawab menyebabkan kematian perlu menerima hukuman yang setimpal”. Beliau berkata demikian pada sidang media selepas Majlis Amanat Tahun Baharu 2020 Menteri Di Jabatan Perdana Menteri (Undang-Undang) di sini hari ini. Yang turut hadir, Timbalan Menteri Di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Mohamed Hanipa Maidin. Pada sidang media 29 Januari lalu, Menteri Pengangkutan, Anthony Loke memaklumkan Akta Pengangkutan Jalan 1987 akan dipinda untuk mengenakan hukuman lebih berat dan setimpal kepada mereka yang memandu di bawah pengaruh alkohol. Menurut beliau, cadangan itu mendapat persetujuan Jemaah Menteri dan akan dibincangkan bersama Polis DiRaja Malaysia (PDRM), Jabatan Peguam Negara dan Institut Penyelidikan Keselamatan Jalan Raya (MIROS) dan dijangka dibentangkan di Parlimen pada sesi Jun atau Julai ini. Vui Keong berkata, pada masa ini pesalah jalan raya yang memandu secara berbahaya dan di bawah pengaruh alkohol dikenakan hukuman di bawah kesalahan mengikut Seksyen 41(1) Akta Pengangkutan Jalan memperuntukkan hukuman penjara minimum dua tahun dan maksimum 10 tahun serta denda tidak kurang RM5,000 dan tidak lebih RM20,000.

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Menurut beliau, akta sedia ada tidak mencukupi dan pihak yang bertanggungjawab mengakibatkan kematian perlu menerima hukuman yang setimpal. Menjawab pertanyaan pemberita mengenai cadangan pakar kriminologi agar pemandu mabuk yang membabitkan kemalangan maut didakwa mengikut 304 Kanun Keseksaan (membunuh tanpa niat) beliau berkata, kesalahan jalan raya tertakluk di bawah Akta Pengangkutan Jalan. Menurut beliau, mahkamah akan memutuskan setiap kesalahan dilakukan pemandu termasuk menetapkan tindakan undang-undang kepada pesalah. https://www.bharian.com.my/berita/nasional/2020/02/655362/cadang-penjara-20-tahun-kepada- pemandu-mabuk

BERITA»Nasional Sabtu, 15 Februari 2020 | 4:18pm Pemandu mabuk sebabkan kematian bakal dipenjara 20 tahun, denda RM100,000 BUTTERWORTH: Individu yang didapati bersalah memandu di bawah pengaruh alkohol, dadah dan memandu secara berbahaya hingga menyebabkan kematian, dicadang untuk dikenakan denda sehingga RM100,000. Menteri Kewangan, Lim Guan Eng, berkata selain itu kerajaan sedang merangka untuk meminda hukuman terhadap kesalahan itu dengan hukuman penjara bagi pesalah berkenaan turut ditingkatkan kepada 20 tahun, berbanding 10 tahun ketika ini. “Kerajaan sedang merangka untuk meminda hukuman bagi Seksyen 41 (Akta Pengangkutan Jalan 1987) ini bagi mereka yang telah menyebabkan kemalangan sehingga menyebabkan kematian apabila memandu dalam keadaan mabuk,” katanya. Beliau berkata demikian kepada pemberita selepas menziarahi lima beradik yang kehilangan bapa mereka, Khairizul Mohamad Noor, 39, selepas dilanggar pemandu kereta dipercayai mabuk dalam kejadian Ahad lepas, di kediaman keluarga itu di Jalan Hj Mohd Saad, dekat Bagan Jermal, di sini hari ini. Individu yang didapati bersalah memandu di bawah pengaruh alkohol, dadah dan memandu secara berbahaya hingga menyebabkan kematian, dicadang untuk dikenakan denda sehingga RM100,000. Guan Eng berkata, pada masa ini hukuman mengikut seksyen berkenaan memperuntukkan penjara maksimum 10 tahun dan denda tidak melebihi RM20,000. Beliau berkata, kadar kematian akibat kemalangan jalan raya di Malaysia agak tinggi iaitu antara yang tertinggi di dunia.

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NEWS UPDATES 2020 “Jadi, kita harus mendapat kerjasama daripada orang ramai sungguh pun kadar sebenarnya sudah menurun tetapi kita harap kita dapat mengurangkan kadar itu. Kita tidak mahu lihat hampir 7,000 korban nyawa berlaku hampir setiap tahun akibat kemalangan jalan raya,” katanya. Terdahulu, Lim yang juga Ahli Parlimen Bagan meluangkan masa menyantuni lima beradik itu dan turut menyampaikan wang sumbangan sebanyak RM5,000. “Sebelum ini, pihak kerajaan negeri, agensi dan Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat termasuk pejabat Parlimen Bagan telah menyampaikan sumbangan kepada keluarga ini dan saya ucapkan takziah kepada keluarga ini dan harap ibu kanak-kanak ini akan cepat sedar dan sembuh. Kita akan terus berikan bantuan dan perhatian kepada keluarga ini,” katanya. Dalam nahas kira-kira pukul 5 pagi 9 Feb lepas, Khairizul meninggal dunia di tempat kejadian, manakala isterinya, Zuriana Hasan, 36, cedera parah kini masih koma dalam rawatan di Hospital Seberang Jaya. Dalam kejadian itu, motosikal yang ditunggang pasangan suami isteri itu dilanggar dari belakang oleh sebuah kereta yang dipandu seorang lelaki dipercayai dalam keadaan mabuk di Kilometer 140.2 Lebuhraya Utara Selatan menghala utara, susur ke Perai di Bukit Mertajam. – BERNAMA

Menteri Kewangan, Lim Guan Eng (tengah) menziarahi ahli keluarga mangsa kemalangan di Jalan Mohd Saad, Kampung Bagan Jermal. - NSTP/Danial Saad

Lima beradik menjadi yatim selepas bapa mereka terbabit kemalangan di Kilometer 140.2 Lebuhraya Utara Selatan di susur ke Perai di Bukit Mertajam. - Foto BERNAMA

BERITA»Kes Isnin, 17 Februari 2020 | 9:57am

- Foto hiasan Insaf selepas dipenjara di Thailand akibat dadah

KOTA BHARU: Gelap mata untuk membuat ‘duit segera’ membuatkan Mat (bukan nama sebenar) sanggup menggadaikan kerjayanya sebagai anggota pasukan keselamatan untuk mengedar dadah.

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Sewaktu bertugas di sempadan Malaysia-Thailand, dia melakukan kegiatan keji itu di kawasan utara tanah air, di sekitar pekan Danok Menurut Mat yang kini berusia 30-an, episod hitam dalam hidupnya itu bermula pada 2007 ketika ditugaskan untuk mengawal sempadan di utara tanah air. Ketika itulah dia menemui cara untuk membuat ‘duit segera’ dengan menjual dadah jenis syabu yang mendapat permintaan tinggi dari negara jiran. Ketika melakukan rondaan di sempadan, dia mula berjinak-jinak dengan syabu ketika melakukan rondaan di sempadan kerana ia mudah diperolehi. Kegiatan itu juga tidak perlu mengeluarkan wang untuk membelinya kerana ia dibekalkan oleh tokan dadah yang menyeludup barangan terlarang itu di kedua-dua negara. Di Thailand, katanya, harga syabu boleh mencecah sehingga RM600 bagi 1 gram. Mat yang juga ketika itu mengambil najis dadah berkata hampir tujuh tahun beliau menjual dadah secara kecil-kecilan di pusat hiburan di pekan Danok sebelum ditangkap Polis Diraja Thailand pada April, 2013. Fasih berbahasa Siam, Mat berkata beliau kemudiannya dijatuhkan hukuman penjara selama dua tahun 12 bulan dan denda 200,000 baht (ketika itu kira-kira RM20,000) menurut undang-undang Thailand. Namun beliau bersyukur kerana mendapat pengampunan diraja sehingga hukumannya dipendekkan kepada dua tahun enam bulan dua hari. Ketika ditangkap dan dipenjarakan di Penjara Natthawi, wilayah Songkhla pada 2013, dia mempunyai seorang isteri yang berasal dari Chiang Mai yang dikahwini pada 2005 dan seorang anak perempuan yang ketika itu berusia lima tahun. “Sepanjang tempoh 72 hari merengkok di dalam penjara sementara menunggu perbicaraan di mahkamah, saya rasa dunia saya begitu gelap. Banyak perkara yang saya fikirkan kerana pertama kali duduk dalam penjara,” katanya kepada Bernama. Mat berkata hidupnya mula berubah pada suatu hari Jumaat ketika sedang melakukan kerja menjahit pukat di dalam penjara. “Saya terdengar bisikan yang menyuruh saya untuk solat Jumaat dan sejak itu, saya mula berhijrah untuk menjadi lebih baik. Alhamdulillah Penjara Natthawi menyediakan sel khusus untuk orang Islam melakukan ibadat tanpa gangguan. “Selepas mendapat hidayah ketika berada dalam penjara, saya berpuasa selama lapan bulan bagi menggantikan puasa yang pernah ditinggalkan,” katanya. Mat juga bersyukur sepanjang dipenjarakan, isteri dan ahli keluarganya dari Kelantan datang melawatnya beberapa kali walaupun tidak dapat bertemu anak perempuannya kerana beliau sendiri yang tidak membenarkan isterinya membawa anaknya datang ke penjara. “Sepanjang dipenjarakan juga, saya juga menerima kunjungan daripada pegawai tatatertib daripada pasukan yang menyerahkan surat tunjuk sebab serta surat pemberhentian kerja dan saya bersyukur kerana dalam rekod perkhidmatan, saya dibuang kerja kerana menghadapi 13 pertuduhan tidak datang kerja.

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“Ia membolehkan saya mencari kerja sebagai pengawal keselamatan selepas dibebaskan pada November 2015 lalu,” katanya. Ditanya sebab yang menyebabkan beliau sanggup menyalahgunakan kuasa sehingga menjadi pengedar dadah walaupun bergelar anggota pasukan keselamatan, Mat berkata ia berikutan hambatan nafsu yang mahu menampung gaya hidup mewah. “Ketika sedang menjalankan operasi, saya juga pernah melepaskan beberapa penyeludup dan meminta sejumlah wang bagi melepaskan mereka daripada ditahan kerana aktiviti rentas sempadan itu. “Selain menghisap dadah, saya juga bermain judi sehingga menyebabkan wang gaji tidak mencukupi. Jadi untuk menampung kehidupan, saya mula berjinak-jinak dengan aktiviti yang menyalahi undang-undang,” katanya. Beliau turut menasihatkan masyarakat agar mengelakkan diri daripada terjebak dengan sebarang gejala tidak sihat kerana ia hanya membawa keburukan kepada diri. “Jadikan diri saya sebagai contoh. Sudah elok bertugas sebagai anggota pasukan keselamatan dengan beberapa keistimewaan sebagai penjawat awam namun gara-gara tidak dapat menahan keinginan, hidup saya punah. Masa tak dapat diputarkan kembali dan saya hanya mampu reda dengan ketentuan-Nya,” katanya. – BERNAMA https://www.bharian.com.my/berita/kes/2020/02/656305/insaf-selepas-dipenjara-di-thailand-akibat- dadah

DUNIA»Eropah Khamis, 20 Februari 2020 | 1:19pm

PENGASAS WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. - Foto Reuters Mahkamah dimaklumkan pengasas WikiLeaks 'ditawarkan pengampunan'

LONDON: Sebuah mahkamah di sini, semalam, dimaklumkan bahawa Presiden Amerika Syarikat (AS), Donald Trump, berjanji untuk mengampunkan pengasas WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, sekiranya beliau menafikan Russia membocorkan e-mel berhubung kempen pesaing pada pilihan raya 2016. Peguam Assange, Jennifer Robinson, dalam satu dokumen berkata, Trump memberikan tawaran itu melalui bekas anggota Kongres, Dana Rohrabacher, lapor agensi berita tempatan United Kingdom (UK), Press Association.

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Rumah Putih bagaimanapun segera mengeluarkan penafian bahawa Trump menawarkan pengampunan sebagai timbal balas kepada bantuan dalam kontroversi membabitkan Russia itu yang membayangi penggal pertama pentadbiran beliau. Setiausaha Akhbar kepada Trump, Stephanie Grisham, berkata Presiden itu hampir tidak mengenali Rohrabacher, selain daripada beliau adalah seorang bekas anggota Kongres. “Presiden tidak pernah bercakap dengannya mengenai perkara ini ataupun hampir sebarang perkara lain. Ia adalah rekaan semata-mata dan penipuan total,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan. ‘Ini mungkin satu lagi tipu helah tidak berkesudahan dan hanya pembohongan semata-mata’ oleh Demokratik, katanya, sehari selepas kontroversi Trump memberi pengampunan atau tindakan belas kasihan lain kepada 11 individu, termasuk seorang bekas gabenor yang dipenjarakan atas kesalahan rasuah serta penjenayah kolar putih berprofil tinggi lain. Pendedahan itu dibuat pada prosiding pengurusan kes di Mahkamah Majistret Westminster sebelum permohonan ekstradisi Washington untuk Assange menghadapi tuduhan pengintipan, bermula secara rasmi. Jika sabit kesalahan di AS, Assange boleh dihukum penjara selama 175 tahun. Pembelaan Assange memetik kenyataan Robinson bahawa Rohrabacher telah berjumpa Assange dan berkata ‘atas arahan daripada presiden, beliau menawarkan pengampunan atau beberapa jalan keluar lain, jika Encik Assange... menyatakan Russia tidak mempunyai kaitan dengan kebocoran DNC (Jawatankuasa Kebangsaan Demokratik).’ Hakim Daerah, Vanessa Baraitser, berkata keterangan terbabit boleh diterima. Bagaimanapun, Robinson tidak memberikan maklum balas kepada e-mel dan panggilan telefon daripada AFP untuk mendapatkan komen beliau. Selasa lalu, Rohrabacher menafikan dakwaan berhubung tawaran kepada Assange itu. “Ketika bercakap dengan Julian Assange, saya memberitahunya bahawa jika dia boleh memberikan kepada saya, maklumat dan bukti mengenai siapa sebenar yang menyerahkan e-mel DNC kepadanya, saya akan menghubungi Presiden Trump untuk mengampunkan dia. “Saya tidak pernah menawarkan perjanjian dibuat oleh Presiden atau menyatakan bahawa saya mewakili Presiden,” kata Rohrabacher dalam satu kenyataan di laman web beliau. Agensi perisikan AS telah merumuskan Russia menggodam pelayan komputer DNC ketika kempen Trump menentang saingan Clinton daripada Demokratik. WikiLeaks kemudian menyiarkan e-mel berkenaan yang membuktikan kerosakan politik terhadap Clinton, sebelum pengundian pada November 2016. Prosiding ekstradisi dijadualkan bermula di Mahkamah Woolwich Crown yang terletak bersebelahan penjara berkawalan tinggi, Belmarsh, di mana Assange ditempatkan. Prosiding itu dijangka berlangsung sepanjang minggu, sebelum ditangguhkan selama tiga bulan dan bersambung semula pada 18 Mei depan. - AFP https://www.bharian.com.my/dunia/eropah/2020/02/657413/mahkamah-dimaklumkan-pengasas- wikileaks-ditawarkan-pengampunan

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DUNIA»Asia Rabu, 19 Februari 2020 | 6:44pm

Bekas presiden Korea Selatan, Lee Myung-bak (kiri), dibawa ke penjara hari ini untuk memulakan tempoh 17 tahun hukuman penjara atas kesalahan rasuah dan penyelewengan. - Foto AFP Bekas presiden Korea Selatan dipenjara

SEOUL: Bekas presiden Korea Selatan, Lee Myung-bak, dibawa ke penjara hari ini untuk memulakan tempoh 17 tahun hukuman penjara atas kesalahan rasuah dan penyelewengan selepas gagal dalam rayuan untuk hukuman lebih ringan. Lee, yang memegang jawatan dari 2008 hingga 2013, dipenjarakan pada 2018 selepas dijatuhi hukuman penjara 15 tahun dan didenda 13 bilion won (RM45.8 juta), tetapi diberi ikat jamin selepas merayu. Beliau didapati bersalah mengumpul dana berpuluh juta dolar dan menerima suapan dari Samsung Electronics sebagai balasan bagi pengampunan untuk presiden untuk pengerusinya, Lee Kun-hee, yang dipenjara kerana mengelak cukai. Pada perbicaraan hari ini, Mahkamah Daerah Seoul mengarahkan hukuman lebih berat, mengatakan Lee "tidak menunjukkan tanda penyesalan atau rasa tanggungjawab" atas kesalahannya. Beliau sebaliknya menyalahkan penjawat awam yang bekerja dengannya dan pekerja Samsung, kata mahkamah. Beberapa presiden Korea Selatan di penjara selepas menamatkan perkhidmatan - selalunya hasil siasatan yang bermula oleh saingan politik. Pengganti Lee, Park Geun-hye, kini sedang menjalani hukuman penjara 32 tahun kerana merasuah dan menyalahgunakan kuasa selepas digulingkan pada 2017 berhubung skandal rasuah di seluruh negara yang menyebabkan protes jalanan besar-besaran. Seorang lagi bekas pemimpin, Roh Moo-hyun, membunuh diri selepas disoal dalam siasatan rasuah membabitkan keluarganya. - AFP https://www.bharian.com.my/dunia/asia/2020/02/657213/bekas-presiden-korea-selatan-dipenjara

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BERITA»Kes Rabu, 19 Februari 2020 | 5:45pm

Antara barang rampasan suspek yang memecah tabung masjid sekitar daerah Besut menggunakan alat pemotong besi. - Ihsan PDRM Besut

Tak pernah insaf

Oleh Nurul Fatihah Sulaini [email protected]

JERTIH: Memiliki 20 rekod jenayah lampau atas pelbagai kesalahan dan baru keluar penjara tiga bulan lalu tidak menghalang seorang lelaki berusia 59 tahun untuk mencuri duit tabung masjid sekitar daerah ini. Ketua Polis Daerah Besut, Superintendan Abdul Rozak Muhammad, berkata lelaki itu ditahan sepasukan polis dari Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah (JSJ) daerah Besut pada Isnin lalu kira-kira jam 4.30 petang di tepi jalan Pantai Kampung Dalam Rhu, Cherang Ruku, Pasir Putih, Kelantan. “Lelaki yang berasal dari Kuala Besut itu tidak bekerja dan baru sahaja keluar penjara tiga bulan lalu atas pelbagai kesalahan termasuk pecah rumah dan berkaitan dadah. “Saringan ujian air kencing ke atas suspek mendapati dia positif dadah jenis Methamphetamine,” katanya ketika dihubungi hari ini. Abdul Rozak berkata, turut dirampas adalah not RM1 sebanyak 35 keping, not RM5 sekeping dan duit syiling berjumlah RM6. “Suspek mengaku melakukan kegiatan pecah tabung masjid sekitar Jertih dan Kampung Raja mulai Disember 2019 hingga sekarang. “Dia melakukan kegiatan pecah tabung masjid dengan menaiki motosikal ke lokasi masjid dan bertindak sendirian pada waktu petang dan malam. “Suspek menyasarkan masjid yang mempunyai tabung derma dan menggunakan alat pemotong besi untuk memecahkan tabung,” katanya. Beliau berkata kes disiasat mengikut Seksyen 457 Kanun Keseksaan kerana mencuri. Suspek ditahan reman empat hari bermula dari tarikh ditangkap. https://www.bharian.com.my/berita/kes/2020/02/657183/tak-pernah-insaf

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BERITA»Nasional Selasa, 18 Februari 2020 | 6:01pm

MRCB beri peluang pekerjaan kepada banduan

Oleh Saadiah Ismail [email protected]

BUKIT JALIL: Malaysian Resources Corporation Berhad (MRCB) menjalankan tanggungjawab komunitinya dengan menyerahkan kontrak pekerjaan kepada 25 Orang Diselia (ODS) dari Penjara Sungai Buloh menerusi program Reben Kuning: PEKA @ MRCB. PEKA bermaksud ‘Peluang Kedua Anda’ dan ia adalah program yang menyediakan latihan, peningkatan kemahiran dan peluang pekerjaan untuk ODS terpilih dan hampir tamat menjalani tempoh hukuman mereka. Naib Presiden Eksekutif MRCB, Datuk Dell Akhbar Khan, berkata ini adalah kali pertama peluang pekerjaan kepada ODS dalam bidang pembinaan ditawarkan, khususnya kepada ODS dewasa berbanding belia. Katanya, ia bertujuan memberi kemahiran kepada ODS supaya selepas tamat tempoh hukuman, mereka mempunyai nilai untuk menempatkan diri dalam pasaran kerja. “Dengan adanya pendedahan ini dan dalam satu suasana terkawal, bebas bekerja di luar namun masih dipantau oleh seorang warden untuk 10 ODS, sekurang-kurangnya mereka tidak terkena kejutan budaya jika keluar dari penjara nanti. “Kaedah ini lebih bagus daripada hanya menunggu banduan tamat hukuman dan selepas itu baru mencari pekerjaan. ” MRCB mahu menjadi perintis dan berharap ODS yang menjalani pekerjaan di sini akan melakukan terbaik supaya akan ada peluang rakan banduan layak yang lain terpilih mengikuti program seperti ini,” katanya ketika ditemui pada majlis penyerahan kontrak lantikan pekerjaan kepada 25 ODS yang menyertai Program Reben Kuning:PEKA@MRCB, dekat sini, hari ini. Yang turut hadir Timbalan Ketua Pengarah (Pemasyarakatan) Jabatan Penjara Malaysia, Datuk Abdul Aziz Abdul Razak dan Pemangku Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif MRCB Builders Sdn Bhd, Lok Ngai Hey. Pada majlis itu, seramai 25 ODS akan mula bekerja untuk projek Lebuhraya Bertingkat Sungai Besi- Ulu Kelang (SUKE) dan Projek Lebuhraya Bertingkat Damansara-Shah Alam (DASH). Dalam pada itu, MRCB juga akan menaja kos perabot bernilai RM31,780 untuk Rumah Transisi Industri-Penjara Sungai Buloh bagi menempatkan ODS yang terbabit. Sementara itu, Abdul Aziz berkata, pihaknya menyasarkan pada tahun 2030 sebanyak 75 peratus banduan layak akan diberi peluang seperti ini di mana ketika ini terdapat sejumlah 17,000 banduan layak dalam tempoh hukuman. Katanya, jadi pihaknya menyasarkan kira-kira 11,000 banduan akan mendapat inisiatif yang sama untuk bekerja sebagai latihan kemahiran, membantu negara seterusnya menjadi modal insan yang lebih tinggi.

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“Program seperti Reben Kuning ini sangat berkesan kerana peratusan banduan yang tamat tempoh dan bekerja dari melakukan kesalahan adalah sangat rendah. “ODS ini sedang menjalani proses transisi yang dibantu oleh komuniti, malah mereka dapat mengekalkan tempoh disiplin sangat panjang. “Pekerjaan ini sangat penting kepada mereka, jika tiada pekerjaan mereka boleh kembali semula dengan perbuatan yang tidak elok dan kali ini kita ia membabitkan seramai 90 ODS yang akan ditempatkan di tiga tempat,” katanya. Bagi Ah Cai (bukan nama sebenar), 48, berkata peluang yang diberi oleh pihak penjara ini adalah suatu yang sangat hebat kerana membenarkan banduan bekerja sebelum tamat tempoh hukuman. Katanya, banduan tidak perlu bimbang apabila keluar nanti, perlu mencari pekerjaan kerana ia sememangnya sudah ditawarkan kepada mereka. “Saya tidak mahu lihat ke belakang lagi, mahu fokus kepada masa depan. Apa yang terjadi saya jadikan iktibar dan berhati-hati dalam memilih kawan,” katanya yang dihukum penjara lima tahun atas kesalahan terbabit dalam kes penculikan.

Naib Presiden Eksekutif MRCB, Datuk Dell Akbar Khan (tengah) bersama Timbalan Ketua Pengarah (Pemsyarakatan) Jabatan Penjara, Datuk Abdul Aziz Abdul Razak (kanan); Pemangku Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif MRCB Builders Sdn Bhd, Lok Ngai Hey dan sebahagian Orang Diselia (ODS) yang menerima surat lantikan pekerjaan pada Majlis Penyampaian Surat Lantikan Pekerjaan untuk Program Reben Kuning: PEKA@MRCB di Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur. - NSTP/Aizuddin Saad

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BERITA»Nasional Selasa, 18 Februari 2020 | 5:30pm

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad diiringi Menteri Dalam Negeri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin hadir pada Majlis Pelancaran Bulan Antidadah Kebangsaan 2020 di Dewan Seri Endon, Puspanitapuri hari ini. Foto BERNAMA Undang-undang berkaitan dadah dipinda ikut keadaan semasa - PM Oleh Rafidah Mat Ruzki dan Mohd Anwar Patho [email protected]

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PUTRAJAYA: Kerajaan mungkin meminda hukuman mati mandatori bagi pengedaran dadah kepada penjara seumur hidup. Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad berkata, kini sudah tiba masa untuk kerajaan menilai dan mengkaji semula semua undang-undang berkaitan pengedaran dan penyalahgunaan dadah mengikut kesesuaian perubahan trend kegiatan berkaitan dadah semasa. Beliau berkata, ketika ini hukuman untuk kesalahan penyalahgunaan dadah di negara ini hanyalah mati mandatori. Katanya, ada yang berpendapat bahawa hukuman itu terlalu keras, justeru ia perlu dipinda. “Kita kaji undang-undang kerana ia amat keras iaitu kalau didapati sesiapa memiliki sekian banyak dadah maka hukuman yang boleh dijatuhkan adalah hukuman mati. “Ramai yang berpendapat ia tidak berkesan kerana masih ada yang mencari duit yang tidak halal dengan mengedar dadah. “(Justeru) Kita akan kaji sama ada dakwaan ini betul atau tidak dan jika kita dapati ada cara lain dalam undang-undang untuk mencegah penyalahgunaan atau pengedaran dadah maka kita akan pinda undang-undang. “Sekarang ini hukuman mati mandatori iaitu hakim tidak ada hak jatuhkan hukuman lain. Dia mesti jatuhkan hukuman mati tetapi ada yang berpendapat hukuman mati itu terlalu keras sebab itu kita perlu pinda mungkin untuk penjara seumur hidup,” katanya kepada pemberita selepas melancarkan Bulan Antidadah Kebangsaan 2020, di sini, hari ini. Yang turut hadir, isteri Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali; Menteri Dalam Negeri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin; Ketua Setiausaha Negara, Datuk Mohd Zuki Ali; Timbalan Menteri Dalam Negeri, Datuk Abdul Aziz Jamman dan Ketua Pengarah Agensi Anti Dadah Kebangsaan (AADK), Datuk Seri Zulkifli Abdullah. Pada majlis itu, Dr Siti Hasmah turut menerima Anugerah Khas Tokoh Antidadah. Dr Mahathir berkata demikian ketika ditanya mengenai kenyataannya dalam ucapannya bahawa sudah tiba masa untuk undang-undang membabitkan pengedaran dan penyalahgunaan dadah dikaji semula. Beliau berkata, penagih dadah tidak dianggap sebagai penjenayah namun adalah penting untuk semua pihak memahami bahawa menyalahgunakan dadah adalah satu perkara tidak baik dan membawa mudarat bukan saja pada diri malah kepada keluarga masyarakat dan negara. Sementara itu, ketika berucap, Dr Mahathir berkata, langkah-langkah penguatkuasaan dan rawatan pemulihan dadah oleh pihak berkuasa perlu juga mengambil kira perubahan semasa supaya usaha menangani penyalahgunaan dadah menjadi lebih tersusun dan berkesan. Beliau berkata, pihak yang menawarkan perkhidmatan rawatan dan pemulihan dadah juga harus memahami keperluan pendekatan diberikan seperti yang disarankan oleh National Institute of Drug Abuse. “Prinsip rawatan dan pemulihan dadah yang berkesan perlu difahami bahawa tiada rawatan tunggal yang sesuai untuk semua orang. “Penyedia perkhidmatan rawatan dan pemulihan dadah, ahli-ahli lembaga pelawat,

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Jawatankuasa Pemulihan Dadah Daerah dan termasuk mereka yang mengendalikan Pusat Pemulihan Dadah Persendirian perlu mengintegrasikan pendekatan rawatan dan pemulihan yang lebih menyeluruh dengan mengambil kira prinsip rawatan pemulihan dadah yang berkesan,” katanya. Dr Mahathir berkata, ketika ini, trend penyalahgunaan dadah juga sudah berubah daripada dadah konvensional berasaskan tumbuhan seperti ganja, morfin dan heroin kepada jenis sintetik yang lebih memudaratkan. Katanya, turut membimbangkan ialah peningkatan permintaan terhadap dadah sintetik seperti Methamphetamine serta munculnya dadah psikoaktif jenis baharu (NPS) di pasaran Asia. "Lebih membimbangkan, kini muncul ratusan bahan psikoaktif baharu di seluruh dunia. Pada 2009, hanya 130 jenis NPS dilaporkan. Dari tempoh 2009 sehingga 2019 pula, jumlah jenis NPS yang dilaporkan dari 119 buah negara adalah sebanyak 892 jenis. "Dadah menjadi sumber pendapatan mudah dan lumayan yang menjadi tarikan berterusan kepada penjenayah tertentu. Jumlah nilai rampasan pada 2019 adalah sebanyak RM3.53 billion, berbanding 2018 sebanyak RM0.58 billion. "Nilai rampasan yang diperoleh ini menunjukkan bahawa pengedar dadah sanggup melakukan apa sahaja untuk mengaut keuntungan daripada kesengsaraan orang lain," katanya. https://www.bharian.com.my/berita/nasional/2020/02/656789/undang-undang-berkaitan-dadah-dipinda- ikut-keadaan-semasa-pm

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Mahkamah Rayuan tolak rayuan bekas Lans Koperal

PUTRAJAYA: Seorang bekas anggota polis berpangkat Lans Koperal terpaksa meringkuk dalam penjara selama 20 tahun dan berdepan 15 sebatan kerana merogol, melakukan seks luar tabii dan memeras ugut seorang pelajar kolej berusia 18 tahun pada 2015, selepas gagal dalam rayuannya di Mahkamah Rayuan, hari ini. Panel tiga hakim diketuai Datuk Abdul Karim Abdul Jalil sebulat suara menolak rayuan terakhir Muhamad Fazrul Fauzi, 34, selepas memutuskan bahawa sabitan terhadapnya adalah selamat manakala tempoh pemenjaraan dan hukuman sebatan yang dikenakan adalah wajar. “Kami mendapati dan berpuas hati, bahawa tidak ada merit dalam rayuan tersebut yang membolehkan Mahkamah Rayuan mengganggu keputusan Mahkamah Sesyen dan Mahkamah Tinggi,” katanya. Dua lagi hakim yang bersidang ialah Datuk Hanipah Farikullah dan Datuk Abu Bakar Jais.

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Muhamad Fazrul kini bebas dengan ikat jamin sementara menunggu rayuan kesnya selesai. Mahkamah Tinggi juga membenarkan pelaksanaan hukuman terhadapnya ditangguhkan sementara menunggu rayuan. Pada 2016, Mahkamah Sesyen Petaling Jaya mensabitkan Muhamad Fazrul dengan hukuman penjara 20 tahun dengan 10 sebatan bagi kesalahan merogol, 10 tahun bagi kesalahan melakukan seks luar tabii dan lima tahun bagi kesalahan memeras ugut. Mahkamah Sesyen memerintahkan Muhamad Fazrul menjalani hukuman itu secara serentak. Muhamad Fazrul gagal dalam rayuannya di Mahkamah Tinggi Shah Alam pada 2018 dan ini menyebabkan dia membawa perkara itu ke Mahkamah Rayuan. Mengikut kertas pertuduhan, Muhamad Fazrul melakukan jenayah seksual terhadap mangsa di dalam tandas lelaki di Tingkat Satu Dataran Sunway, Petaling Jaya di antara jam 1 pagi hingga 1.45 pagi pada 27 Januari 2015. Bagi kesalahan memeras ugut, dia didapati mendorong mangsa menyerahkan RM500 di Dataran Sunway pada hari sama dengan mendakwa bahawa pelajar itu akan dibuang kolej dan ditangkap oleh Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (JAIS). Menurut fakta kes, Muhamad Fazrul yang ketika itu bertugas di Balai Polis Kota Damansara telah menahan mangsa ketika pelajar itu sedang intim bersama teman lelakinya dalam sebuah kereta. Peguam RSN Rayer mewakili Muhamad Fazrul manakala pihak pendakwaan diwakili Timbalan Pendakwa Raya Wong Poi Yoke. – BERNAMA https://www.bharian.com.my/berita/kes/2020/02/657614/mahkamah-rayuan-tolak-rayuan-bekas-lans- koperal

 Home  World 5 minute read Doctors, media freedom group rally around Assange

Protesters hold signs demanding freedom for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in front of the Opera Garnier during a protest before the opening debate on the French government's pensions reform bill at the National Assembly in Paris, France. - AFP By AFP - February 18, 2020 @ 1:04pm LONDON: More than 100 doctors called on Britain to end Julian Assange's "torture" in prison pending his extradition on espionage charges to the United States.

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NEWS UPDATES 2020 The 48-year-old Australian is facing 18 counts in the United States — 17 of them under the Espionage Act — that could see him jailed for 175 years. Washington's extradition request will start being heard next Monday at Woolwich Crown Court. Assange is being held at the neighbouring high-security Belmarsh Prison. A group of 117 physicians and psychologists from 18 nations wrote in a letter to The Lancet medical journal that Assange was being subjected to "torture" in prison. "We condemn the torture of Assange. We condemn the denial of his fundamental right to appropriate healthcare," they wrote in the scientific magazine. "Since doctors first began assessing Mr Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in 2015, expert medical opinion and doctors' urgent recommendations have been consistently ignored." UN special rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer has repeatedly warned that Assange has begun to exhibit signs of psychological torture. Assange was briefly transferred from prison to a medical facility last year because of his frail health. London's Westminster Magistrates' Court has also been forced to postpone a series of preliminary hearings because of Assange's inability to make an appearance by video link. "Our appeals are simple: we are calling upon governments to end the torture of Mr Assange and ensure his access to the best available healthcare, before it is too late," the group of doctors said. FEARLESS EXPOSER Assange's seven-year hideout in Ecuador's London embassy dramatically ended when British police dragged him out and arrested him on a US extradition request last April. He was initially wanted in Sweden in connection with a rape investigation that has now been formally dropped. But Assange had long suspected that he would eventually be sought by Washington for his decision to publish a trove of classified Pentagon documents detailing alleged US war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. His supporters view him as a fearless exposer of injustices such as torture and alleged war crimes committed by US forces and then covered up. Assange's critics accuse him of cosying up to authoritarian leaders such as Russian President Vladimir Putin and putting lives at risk by exposing the names of both US operatives and their foreign informants. The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) media freedoms group posted a separate petition Monday, accusing President Donald Trump's administration of acting in "retaliation for (Assange's) facilitating major revelations in the international media about the way the United States conducted its wars". "The publication of these documents by media outlets was clearly in the public interest, and not an act of espionage," the online petition says. "Julian Assange's contribution to journalism is undeniable." The petition had been signed nearly 20,000 times by Monday afternoon. – AFP https://www.nst.com.my/world/world/2020/02/566644/doctors-media-freedom-group-rally-around- assange

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A man believed to be Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, is pictured in what is believed to be the Altiplano prison. -LATINUS/via Reuters

By Reuters - February 19, 2020 @ 10:33am MEXICO CITY: Clad in a beige uniform marked "3870," the captured drug kingpin answered the Mexican prison guard's questions calmly, barely looking up as he scrubbed black fingerprint ink from his hands. Alias? "El Chapo." Occupation? "Farmer." The interview is part of a four-year-old video released this week offering rare footage of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman, who is now under lock and key for life at a top-security U.S. prison. Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, is pictured at the Altiplano prison in 2016. - LATINUS/via Reuters

Obtained by news site Latinus, the 7-minute video shows Mexican law enforcement registering Guzman at the Altiplano prison in 2016. The arrest followed two earlier escapes - one via a mile-long tunnel from the same jail - that had humiliated the Mexican government. It was not immediately clear how Latinus obtained the video, or why it surfaced now. Guzman was extradited in 2017 to the United States, where he was convicted of trafficking tons of cocaine, heroin and other drugs as leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. After escorting Guzman inside Altiplano, guards searched him and shaved his thick mustache and mop of black hair, photos obtained by Latinus show.

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NEWS UPDATES 2020 A man believed to be Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, is pictured in what is believed to be the Altiplano prison in 2016, in this still image taken from a video supplied by news site Latinus.- LATINUS/via Reuters

Guzman then responded to a seemingly routine questionnaire: 58 years old. Primary school education. Mother alive. Pants size 34. And his wife's name? "The one I'm married to is Alejandrina Salazar," he answered, head bowed as he worked to clean the ink from his hands. "But the one I live with is Emma Coronel." The feared criminal whose nickname means "Shorty" in English proceeded to sign a document, tugging at his uniform to check the inmate number emblazoned across his chest. A picture of a man believed to be Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, at the Altiplano prison in 2016. -LATINUS/via Reuters

The footage of Guzman, who grew marijuana as a boy in Sinaloa state, shows his hands dotted with freckles and liver spots. Guards searched Guzman again before leading him to a bleak cell outfitted with a gray cement bench. They handed him a puffy jacket, a thin mattress and two rolls of toilet paper before locking the door. -- Reuters https://www.nst.com.my/world/world/2020/02/566874/prisoner-3870-alias-el-chapo-appears-rare- mexican-video

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 Home  World 3 minute read Former South Korean president jailed after losing appeal

(FILES) Former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak (L) arriving at a court to attend his trial in Seoul. -AFP

By AFP - February 19, 2020 @ 4:41pm SEOUL: Former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak was taken to prison Wednesday to begin a 17-year term for bribery and embezzlement after losing an appeal against a lighter sentence. Lee, in office from 2008 to 2013, was briefly jailed in 2018 after being sentenced to 15 years and fined 13 billion won ($11 million), but was granted bail while he appealed. He was found guilty of creating slush funds of tens of millions of dollars and accepting bribes from Samsung Electronics in return for a presidential pardon for its chairman, Lee Kun-hee, who was jailed for tax evasion. At a hearing on Wednesday, Seoul's Central District Court ordered a heavier sentence, saying Lee "did not show a sign of remorse or sense of responsibility" for his wrongdoings. He instead blamed civil servants he worked with and Samsung employees, the court said. Several South Korean presidents have ended up in prison after leaving office -- often as a result of investigations started by political rivals. Lee's successor, Park Geun-hye, is currently serving 32 years in jail for bribery and abuse of power after being ousted in 2017 over a nationwide corruption scandal that prompted massive street protests. Another former leader, Roh Moo-hyun, committed suicide after being questioned in a corruption probe involving his family. -- AFP https://www.nst.com.my/world/world/2020/02/567038/former-south-korean-president-jailed-after- losing-appeal

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FOTO fail menunjukkan Lee Myung- bak hadir ke mahkamah pada 6 September 2018. FOTO AFP

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Seoul: Bekas Presiden Korea Selatan Lee Myung-bak dibawa ke penjara, hari ini. Ia bagi menjalani hukuman penjara 17 tahun kerana rasuah dan menggelapkan wang, selepas mahkamah menolak rayuannya untuk hukuman lebih ringan. Lee yang berkhidmat sebagai Presiden antara 2008 dan 2013, pernah dipenjara pada 2018 untuk tempoh singkat. Ia selepas beliau dipenjara 15 tahun dan didenda 13 bilion won (kira-kira RM45 juta). Bagaimanapun, dia dibenarkan ikat jamin sementara menantikan keputusan rayuan terhadap hukuman berkenaan. Dia didapati bersalah menggelapkan jutaan dolar dan menerima rasuah daripada Samsung Electronics. Ia sebagai balasan untuk memberi pengampunan kepada pengerusi syarikat itu, Lee Kun-hee, yang dijel kerana mengelak membayar cukai. Pada prosiding hari ini, Mahkamah Daerah Pusat Seoul sebaliknya menjatuhkan hukuman lebih berat kerana Lee tidak menunjukkan kesal atau bertanggungjawab atas kesalahannya. Beberapa Presiden Korea Selatan sebelum ini dijel selepas tidak lagi menjawat jawatan itu. Pengganti Lee, Park Geun-hye, kini menjalani hukuman penjara 32 tahun kerana rasuah dan salah guna kuasa. Ia selepas beliau disingkirkan daripada jawatan itu susulan skandal rasuah yang menyebabkan demonstrasi besar-besaran di seluruh negara. Seorang lagi pemimpin, Roh Moo-hyun, membunuh diri selepas disoal siasat berhubung dakwaan rasuah membabitkan ahli keluarganya. Artikel ini disiarkan pada : Rabu, 19 Februari 2020 @ 4:38 PM https://www.hmetro.com.my/global/2020/02/546165/tambah-hukuman-penjara

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1. > Entertainment & Lifestyle 2. > Reviews Book review: The Guardians M.L.M / 19 FEB 2020 / 10:31 H.

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IN The Guardians, John Grisham offers readers an insight into America’s dysfunctional legal system. It also shows the depth of corruption in the system, which has loopholes that can be manipulated by those in power to make victims of those it incarcerates. Over two decades before the story begins, in the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young white lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead while working alone at his desk late one night. With no witnesses, it initially appeared a crime without a motive. Nevertheless, the police arrested Quincy Miller, a young black man, for the murder. As a client of Russo’s, Miller was angry with his lawyer for the mishandling of his divorce. According to the police, Miller used a shotgun to kill Russo, and he was linked to the crime by a blood-spattered flashlight found at the scene. Conveniently for the police, all the evidence vanished in a fire while in storage. At the same time, a young policeman – also black – who may have had some knowledge of what’s happened to the evidence, was ambushed and murdered. The police chief who had taken personal charge of the case, was himself suspected of being involved in the drug trade. Quincy was tried, convicted, and sentenced for life. For 22 years, he languished in prison, but maintaining his innocence. Unfortunately, he had no lawyer, and no-one to advocate for him on the outside. In desperation, he writes to Guardian Ministries, a small non-profit in Savannah Georgia which is run on a shoestring budget with just three employees. Among them is Cullen Post, a lawyer who also happens to be an Episcopal minister. The team is helped by Frankie, also black, who, having been exonerated after 14 years in prison, is now a millionaire as a result of his legal compensation.

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NEWS UPDATES 2020 With Miller, Post gets more than he bargained for. Powerful, ruthless people murdered Russo, and they do not want Miller exonerated. The real reason Russo was killed only emerges in a final twist. It is not a pretty story – with greed and lust at its core. An illuminating read. https://www.thesundaily.my/style-life/reviews/book-review-the-guardians-LX2022058

1. The Sun Daily 2. > Local Malaysian on death row to appeal again to challenge clemency plea rejection 13 FEB 2020 / 10:42 H.

SINGAPORE: Malaysian Pannir Selvam a/l Pranthaman who is on death row will appeal against yesterday’s decision by the Singapore High Court which dismissed his bid to start a court challenge against the rejection of his clemency plea. “Pannir will be appealing the decision. So, the matter isn’t over yet. We have a month to file the notice of appeal,” said his counsel Too Xing Ji when contacted by Bernama today. The application to start a court challenge was heard in chambers by Justice See Kee Oon on Feb 11 and the decision was made the next day. The Singapore Court of Appeal had on May 23, 2019, granted Pannir’s application to stay his execution and enable him to challenge the clemency process. Pannir, 32, who was scheduled to be executed on May 24, filed the stay application from prison pending a challenge upon the rejection of clemency. The letter from the Singapore President refusing clemency and the notification of execution were both dated May 17, 2019, but the letter notifying his family of the execution was posted out on May 16, 2019. In his affidavit, the President’s principal private secretary had reportedly said he signed the letters on May 7 but post-dated them by 10 days to May 17. He had also reportedly said that before May 7, the President had been advised by the Cabinet that the law should be allowed to take its course. Pannir was convicted on June 27, 2017 by the Singapore High Court for trafficking in 51.84g of diamorphine at Woodlands Checkpoint on Sept 3, 2014. — Bernama https://www.thesundaily.my/local/malaysian-on-death-row-to-appeal-again-to-challenge-clemency-plea- rejection-EC2004327

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KUALA LUMPUR - Parti Bumiputera Perkasa Malaysia (Putra) mahu kerajaan mempertimbangkan langkah untuk mengekalkan hukuman mati mandatori bagi kesalahan mengedar dadah. Presidennya, Datuk Dr Ibrahim Ali berkata, hukuman sedia ada yang dilaksanakan buat masa ini adalah memadai dan setimpal dengan jenayah yang dilakukan. "Bagi Putra, hukuman mati mandatori ini mesti dikekalkan untuk semua kesalahan jenayah yang menyebabkan kematian. Jika sesiapa sahaja menjadi mangsa pembunuhan, hukumannya (kepada penjenayah) mesti juga gantung sampai mati, setimpal dengan jenayah yang dilakukan dan ia memberi keadilan kepada mangsa serta keluarga," katanya pada sidang akhbar khas di Ibu Pejabat Putra hari ini. ARTIKEL BERKAITAN: Kerajaan akan kaji semula undang-undang berkaitan dadah Beliau berkata demikian ketika mengulas kenyataan Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad pada Selasa yang mengatakan bahawa hukuman mati mandatori mungkin dipinda kepada hukuman penjara seumur hidup bagi kesalahan mengedar dadah. Dr Mahathir berkata, kerajaan akan mengkaji undang-undang berhubung kesalahan berkaitan dadah kerana ada pihak berpendapat hukuman dikenakan sekarang adalah terlalu keras. Ibrahim berkata, jika hukuman mati mandatori dipinda kepada hukuman penjara seumur hidup, pihaknya bimbang jenayah berkaitan dadah akan meningkat. Beliau berkata, sekiranya hukuman penjara seumur hidup dilaksanakan, kerajaan akan menanggung kos yang lebih tinggi bagi setiap banduan di penjara termasuk makan dan minum serta perubatan. - Bernama https://www.sinarharian.com.my/article/70908/BERITA/Nasional/Putra-minta-kerajaan-kekalkan- hukuman-mati-mandatori-kes-dadah

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