'Order makes millions of Malaysians criminal'
Published on: Saturday, August 29, 2015
Bersih 2.0 steering committee member New Sin Yew said the Home Ministry order had effectively made millions of Malaysians criminal.He said it was made with bad faith and should be challenged in court."It is clear that it is made to disrupt and prevent the people from exercising their freedom of expression," he said.
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New, who is a lawyer, said the order flies in the face of reason and common sense."There is a word for this, xanthophobia, fear of the colour yellow. Zahid has become xanthophobic," he said.The rally organiser, electoral reform group Bersih 2.0, this week sold at least 35,000 rally t-shirts and received RM2 million in public donations – a response it described as overwhelming and unprecedented.The rally's demands this time are for institutional reform, the right to protest, a corruption-free and clean government and political system, and measures to save the economy.
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