PSM Statement - 23 October 2015 - Serious concern about well-being of Khalid Ismath!
Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) would like to express our deepest concern and alarm on the well being of Khalid Ismath. We have made to understand yesterday that Khalid has been put under solitary confinement since he was denied bail on the 13 of October 2015. Putting a person in solitary confinement is a form of torture and we call upon the Prison authorities at Ayer Molek Johor to place Khalid in a normal cell.
PSM is also deeply concerned that the Johor High Court has yet to grant a date to do a judicial revision on his denial of bail. A revision has been filed on Sunday 18-10-2015 and we are concerned that there seems to be a delay in granting his lawyer a date in court to revise the unpopular Session Court decision in denying Khalid bail.
Finally PSM calls upon SUHAKAM to immediately visit Khalid Ismath and assess his condition there. Khalid Ismath has already being declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International and we call upon SUHAKAM to intervene and protest his continuous detention without being offered bail.
Khalid should be given the rights of bail like any other person and there should not be any interference by any parties in ensuring that Khalid’s rights a safeguarded. His continuous detention without bail is a gross human rights violation.
Released by
S.Arutchelvan
PSM Central Committee Member
via Wasiatpejuang:
SOLIDARITY UNTUK KHALID ISMATH DARI INDONESIA
Solidarity from Indonesia
Statement of PEMBEBASAN (Pusat Perjuangan Mahasiswa untuk Pembebasan Nasional—Center of Student Struggle for National Liberation).
18 October 2015
Solidarity for Khalid Ismath and Democracy in Malaysia.
Free Khalid Ismath!
Enforce Democracy, Destroy Militarism!
Eliminate the Sedition Act!
To Liberation and Solidarity!
Democracy and capitalism will not be able to walk along because capitalism does not need democracy. For capitalism, democracy will only disrupt the process of capital accumulation, so, even if democracy must exist, then it must be limited, controlled, dwarfed—so it can do no harm to the capital accumulation process. That kind of democracy is always inherent in any capitalist power, anti-criticism and repressive.
It is also endemic in the constitutional monarchy in Malaysia. Efforts to shut the criticism down is done by using the legislation instruments. We know Khalid Ismeth, that since October 7, 2015 has been imprisoned by the police in Ayer Molek, Johor, Malaysia.
The arrest of Khalid Ismath is just because he wrote his criticism against the government and the Sultan in Malaysia on his facebook status. Khalid criticized over the arrest of Kamal Hisham Jaafar through social media. Kamal Hisham try to uncover the truth behind the Sultanate evil empire, and he had been in Singapore since hunted by the government (Sultanate of Johor).
That is where Khalid Ismath expressed his support for Kamal Hisham, while criticizing the Sultanate of Johor. Soon, Khalid was arrested by the police with two charges; violating the section 233 of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia (Section 233 Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Act 1998) and Sedition Act 1948 as he encourage others to join in solidarity. Although two days after the arrest Khalid were released, he has been arrested again with sedition act.
Next, Khalid was brought to the court on October 13, 2015 for trial. Johor Baru Sessions Court charged him with 11 counts under the section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 and 3 counts under the Sedition Act 1948.
Repression and anti-democratic act as practiced by the Sultanate of Johor provide a conclusion that there is no democracy for the majority of the people. For Sultanate of Johor, the meaning of democracy is exactly the same as the capitalistic democracy, it never give space for the people.
Capitalism does not object to dictators and dictatorships while they are in conformity with the interests of the accumulated profits. In his book, State and Revolution, Lenin, one of the leaders of the Russian Revolution in 1917, said that democracy in capitalism is democratic to investors that its economic position is free from the control of the people. It is enough to give them a councils, without the right to fire the representatives of their own choosing; enough to give them the 'democratic' institutions as a representative functions for their aspirations, without the urge to directly engage and understand it. That artificial democracy was built to keep people from politics, because the politics that is desirable by the capitalist is politics that serve the interests of the investment and the capital accumulation. It consequences on the need of political stability that leave the process of capital accumulation undisrupted. The political stability that is desired by capitalism and capitalist government agencies is enforced through the instrument of legislation and mobilization (military repression). These character appears in capitalist government around the world. Also practiced by the Sultanate of Johor when responding to the criticism issued by Khalid Ismath, and probably also will befall to anyone who dares to criticize the Sultanate of Johor in Malaysia.
Democracy and political freedom is the key/way out of the problems of the people who have been credited by capitalism.
Moreover, if the government's structure is still using feudal instruments such as kingdom/empire, the developments of people's productive power capacity would be very disturbed, and they will never develop the democracy itself (people power).
The issue of democracy; The more intolerant, more refused to differences, the opposing side was left to destroy each other, ideological differences are considered dangerous. It does not matter that a thousands of lives annihilated, as long as its ideology/doctrine does not spread; short-sighted, parochial, abominable, and dwarfed. Adapted according to the logic of capital, so long as the democracy does not hurt investment.
Therefore, for the sake of democracy and solidarity of anti-imperialism-capitalism people , we from PEMBEBASAN, demands:
- Khalid Ismath NOT GUILTY, the Sultanate of Johor should RELEASE Khalid Ismath now.
- Eliminate the Sedition Act.
- Stop the repression and activist criminalization.
- Give democracy, political freedom and prosperity for all the people of Malaysia.
And to the social movement in Malaysia we call for:
Unite people with democratic and anti-imperialism-capitalism platform as a condition against the feudal power structure (the empire/kingdom) and capitalist government agencies. Unity of the people is the embryo of a council of the people (people's power) to determine the future of Malaysia—to break away from capitalism.
In solidarity and democracy,
Jakarta, 19 October 2015
National Collective
PEMBEBASAN—Pusat Perjuangan Mahasiswa untuk Pembebasan Nasional (Center of Student Struggle for National Liberation)
*Note from Insurrection News: For updated information on Khalid, check Bebas Khalid Ismath Facebook page (Malay language) and follow these hashtags: #bebaskhalidismath #solidariti4khalidismath #mansuhaktahasutan #freekhalidismath
Insurrection News received on 03.09.15:
On 28th August (Friday), over a dozen police with automatic weapons and K-9 unit attacked Rumah Api (social center/house project in Kuala Lumpur) during a concert on that night. The police raided the house project and raid everybody during the concert and also trashed the living space of people who live there without any warrant or solid reason for the raid.
We all believe the raid were conducted due to the connection of Bersih 4 Rally which happen on the next days (29 and 30th) which is totally insane since the organizer of the concert, participants, and Rumah Api have little interest to join or even support the rally, due to our political stance on the issue of election and voting system.
The state use Rumah Api as the scapegoat of recent event of attack on banks and multinational corporations in KL for the past 2 years. So far, they found nothing to link us with that events. The police seize all the musical equipment at the concert hall, seize 2 computers of people who live there, one smart phone, artwork, and books belonging to people who live there. The police said they search the building for any weapons or explosives that can link us to terrorism.
All 160 people who got arrested were remanded for 3 days. Among the arrestees, there are comrades from United States, Germany, Spain, Phillipines and Indonesia who attended the concert. According to the detainees, during the interrogation, the police ask about their participation with Rumah Api and what knowledge they had about Rumah Api and terrorism. They were given very little food or water and there are issues of mistreating the detainees, especially womyn detainees.
The police released all of the detainees on 31st August except two comrades, one from Manila and one from Bandung. The police mention that they still under detention due to the process of checking their status in Malaysia and because both comrades have records for entering this country without legal permit.
At the moment, they still held the computers and a smartphone until further notice to help their investigation. 2 comrades are now facing court charges of Section 143 of the Penal Code, Section (4)(1)(b) of the Sedition Act and Section 6 of the Selangor Entertainment and Places of Entertainment Enactment and are facing fines and prison sentence of 20 years.
We are asking for solidarity from all over the world to spread the news. This is a brutal tactic use by the state to clamp down on the movement. With current political and economic instability in this country, and also the uprising of the anti-government sentiments, they trying to put down any action or any lifestyle that doesn't go along with what they want.
On Rumah Api side, the gig that night titled is Party Tonight, Revolution Tomorrow is nothing more than just a normal Friday night gig with no intention to relate it with Bersih 4 rally. We at Rumah Api are critical of the popular struggle in Malaysia. Bersih 4 which is a demonstration for free and clean election is a so-called first world problem and it has a middle upper class agenda. Bersih 4 is being supported and joined by liberals and Islamists with their partisan politics that we are all against. We focus more on the grassroots level and are more interested to put our energy into strengthening our own and surrounding community. We see, by supporting Bersih 4 and it's agenda, we are on the wrong side of our struggle. In Malaysia, by changing the government, it will not make the problems goes away. Issues of xenophobia, homophobia, racism and religion are still the serious problems the politicians failed to address.
Now, people still gathering outside of Ampang Police Station to pressure them to release two of our comrades.
Never Surrender!
Malaysia: According to corporate media reports there have been two separate Molotov cocktail attacks against the private residences of government employees by persons unknown.
The first attack took place on Friday, August 14th in Bukit Mertajam. Two Molotov cocktails were hurled at the home of an immigration officer. The resulting explosions damaged a car parked in the driveway and set the front garden on fire.
The second attack took place on the morning of Monday, August 17th in Kota Bharu. Molotov cocktails were hurled at the private residence of the head of the Agricultural Development Authority. Three cars parked at the residence were destroyed and extensive damage was caused to the front of the house.
Police have no leads or suspects for either case and no group or individuals have claimed responsibility for either attack.
(via Malaysian and Indonesian corporate media: http://www.malaysiandigest.com/news/565428-molotov-cocktails-thrown-at-immigration-officer-s-house.html http://www.hmetro.com.my/node/70883)
Police in Malaysia have launched a witch hunt for two anarchists who they are accusing of being the 'masterminds' of the anarchist May Day demonstration in Kuala Lumpur during which a bank window was smashed by rocks and the bank's security guard was slightly injured.
Police are alleging they found a bag left behind at the bank that led them to a 30 year old factory worker from Shah Alam. The worker's house was raided on May 2nd and a number of items were seized including posters, a Guy Fawkes / Anonymous mask, pamphlets, a slingshot and some smoke bombs.
Police held a press conference on May 26th with the seized items on display and released photos of two anarchists named Markio and Ocha who they say they now want to arrest and charge under Section 148 and Section 4 (using corrosive or explosive substances or offensive weapons) of the Malaysian criminal code. Of course the scum press in Malaysia happily obliged the police by immediately broadcasting their photos and issuing 'news reports' that just repeated everything the police said word for word.
Solidarity With The Wanted Comrades Markio And Ocha!
Solidarity With The Malaysian Anarchist Movement!
Fuck The Malaysian Police!
(source: http://www.mstar.com.my/berita/berita-jenayah/2015/05/26/dalang-anarki/)
