The Price I Paid for Malaysian 'Justice'

[kensington]

UK govt refuses to extradite RPK?


By Syed Jaymal Zahiid

FULL REPORT KUALA LUMPUR: Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein may have indirectly revealed the refusal of the British government to extradite controversial fugitive blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin (RPK).

The minister said relevant authorities from both nations have met on the matter but extradition "requires cooperation from both sides".

"And if the position and policy of the other nation does not allow the person to be taken back home for action, to face justice, what other choices do we have?" Hishammuddin told reporters at Parliament House here.

Hishammuddin was responding to Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin's reprimand against the Malaysian police for alleged inaction against RPK.

The webmaster of Malaysia Today fled the country and legal persecution following his allegation that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and wife, Rosmah Mansor, are involved in the murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaaribuu.

Khairy said the entire nation is aware of his location when the blogger appeared publicly in London to speak at events organised by PKR.

"It's unfair to say that the authorities are not doing anything," retorted Hishammuddin, the Semborong MP.

"The Inspector-General of Police (Musa Hassan) has already replied to the questions posed by Khairy,” he said.


Malaysian and UK police have met

The Malaysian police have met with UK's metropolitan police while their intelligence agency has engaged Wisma Putra, said Hishammuddin, maintaining that if one party disagrees to an extradition, it cannot take place.

"So what do we do? Go into a third country and kidnap him or smuggle him out like a terrorist? Never, it is not our way," he said.

Asked if there was any extradition agreement between the two countries, he said he was unaware of it.

"I'm not sure actually. But I have checked with the UK authorities; we have been doing this for a long time and we were aware of all the matters stated yesterday and they have their own position; even with the matter of extradition, you need the cooperation of the party concerned.

"And this has been handled the best way we can. So the most important matter now is to focus on the allegations made by him," said Hishammuddin.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/fmt-english/news/general/7640-uk-govt-refuses-to-extradite-rpk
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[Received_by_Kings]

This loss of freedom was due solely to my long-standing personal and professional association with Anwar Ibrahim, then Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Malaysia.

You stood with a rat, and so you got treated like a rat. Blame only yourself and your poor sense of judgment for sticking with dubious political characters.

 

[Received_by_Kings]

Thanks Bros. Whatever happens politically in Malaysia is going to hit Singapore with its wake. It would be prudent for the average Singaporeans to be more informed about Malaysian politics and its repercussions.

That is only your own theory. A laughable and pathetic one too if I may add.

Also, it helps to be informed that those "average Singaporeans" you described would still not be bothered. If they did you'd get lots of comments on your threads. Factually speaking almost all of them share the exact same fate as the stupid old thread by elephanto about some dumb investment banker with poor English and hilarious detective skills painting Suntec renters as evil and CHC and its pastor-investor as wholesome innocent lambs, before the latter and his wife were to be investigated by the CID? What a joke!

National news and political and economic development in Singapore still matters to them more as compared to Malaysia or even Indonesia. Similarly, try telling the average Americans about Canadian or Mexican news. Bleh. See if you would not be ignored, or even mocked by them.

And furthermore, for things foreign, they are just mostly looking for entertainment, and this outside political rambling in their eyes (no spectacular turns like uprisings, imprisonments etc), hardly fits the description (ie boring).

 

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No request made yet to extradite RPK

By Adib Zalkapli, The Malaysian Insider

Whitehall has yet to receive any application from Putrajaya to extradite fugitive blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin although the Malaysian government has hinted that the United Kingdom has refused to co-operate over the issue.

Malaysian government officials familiar with the extradition process said the Home Ministry has been unable to make the application because his alleged offence is not a crime in the UK.

“No official request has been made to bring back Raja Petra,” a source told The Malaysian Insider.

The British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur has refused to comment specifically on Raja Petra’s case but issued a statement on Wednesday about the extradition request procedure.

“An extradition request from one Commonwealth country to another is governed by the London Scheme for Extradition within the Commonwealth. This contains a Dual Criminality Rule,” said the High Commission statement.

“A person sought will only be extradited for an extradition offence. For the purpose of this scheme, an extradition offence is an offence however described which is punishable in the requesting and requested country by imprisonment for two years or a greater penalty,” it added.

Questions on Malaysia’s ability to bring back Raja Petra were first raised by PKR supreme council member Datuk Zaid Ibrahim who claimed that Putrajaya was unable to state what offence the Malaysia Today news portal editor had committed.

Earlier this week, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein indirectly suggested that the British government has not agreed to extradite Raja Petra.

Under the British Extradition Act 2003, the requesting state has to submit an extradition request to the secretary of state who would issue a certificate for a hearing before a judge.

Apart from making sure that the person’s alleged conduct has to be a crime in both countries, the judge must also be satisfied that the extradition would not lead to violation of human rights under the British Human Rights Act 1998.

Raja Petra, who was facing a criminal defamation trial, was given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal in November last year by the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court after the police failed to serve a warrant of arrest.

He was believed to have fled the country in May last year after he was charged with defaming Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, the wife of the prime minister.

The member of the Selangor royal house had allegedly published an article linking the murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu to Rosmah.

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