Loooong far behind Najib in PLEDGED REFORMs

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Assembly bill okayed</h1>
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<span class="author">By ILI LIYANA MOKHTAR AND RAHMAH GHAZALI <br /> KUALA LUMPUR <br /> [email protected]</span>
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Six amendments to Peaceful Assembly Bill, including shortened notice period</h2>
THE Dewan Rakyat yesterday passed the Peaceful Assembly Bill 2011 which
guarantees the right of Malaysians to gather peacefully.<br />
There were no dissenting votes as opposition members of parliament
staged a walk-out, missing out on the debate and vote on the bill.<br />
There were six amendments to the bill, including shortening the notice
period required to be given to the police for any assemblies to 10 days
from 30 days as originally proposed.<br />
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri
Abdul Aziz, in winding up the debate, lashed out at the opposition for
misleading the public and for being hypocritical.<br />
He also took the Bar Council to task for staging a street protest
against the bill “They are lawyers but they did not behave that way. I
am a lawyer, too, and I am ashamed of how they behaved,” Nazri told the
Dewan Rakyat, adding that although it was the fundamental right of
citizens to assemble, the freedom could not be absolute.<br />
The bill was passed before Deputy Speaker Datuk Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.<br />
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak denied on Monday, on the eve of
the vote, that the bill was more draconian than previous laws.<br />
He said the critics of the bill were out to confuse the public.<br />
Opposition MPs, in staging the walk-out, claimed that the government
had rushed the bill through. They wanted the bill to be referred to a
parliamentary select committee for further study.<br />
Outside the house, about 1,000 people, comprising mostly lawyers,
marched from the Lake Gardens, here to the Parliament building to
protest the bill.<br />
The protesters, led by Bar Council president Lim Chee Wee, asked the
government to ensure that the bill would not deprive Malaysians of the
right to assemble peacefully.<br />
TV3 reported that the protesters comprised supporters of Bersih 2.0 and
the Seksualiti Merdeka festival. Some wore yellow T-shirts.<br />
The protest caused traffic jams as police sealed off the road leading
to Parliament &nbsp;&nbsp; Hundreds of members of the Federal Territory chapter of
the Putra Malaysia Council, Pekida and Perkasa also turned up to show
their support for the bill.<br />
Police later allowed Lim and nine other Bar Council members to hand
their memorandum to Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department
Datuk Liew Vui Keong as well as opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar
Ibrahim.<br />
Other amendments to the bill include Clause 12(b), where objections
against a proposed assembly must be lodged with the police in writing
within 48 hours, instead of five days.<br />
Clause 14, which among others, requires the police to&nbsp; reply to organisers within five days instead of 12.<br />
Clause 16(a), where appeals against the rejection of an application or
the exercise of police discretionary orders to organisers can be done
within 48 hours of receipt, instead of four days, and&nbsp; Clause 16(b),
which requires the Home Minister to answer to any appeals within 48
hours of receipt instead of six days.</div>
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Ass Loong Son here <b>pledged</b> an ALL NEW PAp... Empty Talks so far!
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Nothing is delivered except talks, there is still an <b>Over-due</b> result on Ministerial Pay Reduction! Are we awaiting for X'mas Loong?<br />
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Is Gerald Ee on X'mas holidays already? Is he cutting too much of your salaries &amp; your cronies? So you refused to announce it? <br />
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ISA is history in Najib's Malaysia &amp; you still have Mas Selamat &amp; his family members under lock &amp; key? Do you know that the Norwaygen is not even charging the 77 live shooter for murder? What did MSK do? Next to NOTHING except embarrassing your LEEgime!

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Norway killer found insane, unfit for prison

Originally published: November 29, 2011 5:28 AM
Updated: November 29, 2011 7:07 PM
By The Associated Press BJOERN H. AMLAND (Associated Press), KARL RITTER (Associated Press)

Photo credit: AP | FILE - This 2009 file image issued by Norwegian police on Oct. 28, 2011, shows confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik in a passport photo. The forensic psychiatrists who evaluated the mental state of confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik have handed over their assessment to a Norwegian court Tuesday Nov. 29, 2011. The report will help determine whether the 32-year-old right-wing extremist can be held criminally liable for a bomb-and-shooting massacre in which 77 people were killed on July 22. (AP Photo/Norwegian Police via Scanpix Norway, File) NO SALES
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OSLO, Norway - (AP) -- Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik belongs in psychiatric care instead of prison, Norwegian prosecutors said Tuesday after a mental evaluation declared him legally insane during a bomb-and-shooting rampage that killed 77 people.

The court-ordered assessment found that the self-styled anti-Muslim militant was psychotic during the July 22 attacks, which would make him mentally unfit to be convicted and imprisoned for the country's worst peacetime massacre.

The report, written by two psychiatrists who spent 36 hours talking to Breivik, will be reviewed by an expert panel before the Oslo district court rules on his mental state.

Their conclusions surprised many outside experts and contrasted with earlier comments by the head of the review panel, who told The Associated Press in July that it was unlikely that Breivik would be declared insane because the attacks were so carefully planned and executed.

But prosecutors insisted the psychiatric report describes a man living in a "delusional universe" -- a paranoid schizophrenic who's lost touch with reality.

"After having read the documents of the case, the conclusion did not come as a surprise," Prosecutor Svein Holden told the AP.

Breivik, 32, has confessed to setting off a bomb that ripped through Oslo's government district, killing eight people, then opening fire at the summer camp of the governing Labor Party's youth wing. Sixty-nine people died in the mayhem at the Utoya island camp outside the Norwegian capital of Oslo before Breivik surrendered to a SWAT team.

He denies criminal guilt, saying he's a commander of a resistance movement aiming to overthrow European governments and replace them with "patriotic" regimes that will deport Muslim immigrants.

Investigators have found no sign of such a movement and say Breivik most likely plotted and carried out the attacks on his own.

Breivik was told about the psychiatric evaluation later Tuesday, police prosecutor Christian Hatlo said.

"He said he was insulted by the conclusion, and wanted to read the report," Hatlo told AP, adding that Breivik wasn't allowed to read the full report.

In a rambling online manifesto released just before the attacks, Breivik wrote that he expected authorities to label him an "insane, inbred, pedophile Nazi loser."

Holden said the report concluded that Breivik during an extended period had "developed the mental disorder of paranoid schizophrenia, which has changed him and made him into the person he is today."

The two psychiatrists -- Torgeir Husby and Synne Soerheim -- met Breivik 13 times. Husby told AP that their conclusions were "clear" and unanimous.

Breivik's lawyer Geir Lippestad told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that he wasn't surprised by the psychiatric assessment. "It is obvious that the matter has taken a completely new turn," Lippestad said.

In Norway, an insanity defense requires that a defendant be in a state of psychosis while committing the crime. That means the defendant has lost contact with reality to the point that he's no longer in control of his own actions.

The 243-page report will be reviewed by a panel from the Norwegian Board of Forensic Medicine, which could ask for additional information and add its own opinions. The head of the panel, Dr. Tarjei Rygnestad, called the conclusions "interesting."

Rygnestad had said earlier that a psychotic person typically struggles to perform even simple tasks like driving a car, and the advanced planning and skills required for Breivik's attacks spoke against psychosis.

On Tuesday, Rygnestad told AP that his earlier comments were based on "secondary information" and that a person's mental state can only be determined through in-depth analysis. He said he had not read the full report yet, but maintained that psychotic people typically aren't able to carry out complex tasks.

"Usually not. Then again, unusual things also happen," he said.

Frode Elgesem, a lawyer for the Labor Party's youth group, also called the evaluation result unexpected.

"What we have seen is a dangerous and calculating man," Elgesem told AP. "That said, the experts have a much broader basis for their conclusion. It is difficult to overrule that."

Breivik's trial is set to begin in April. If declared mentally fit and convicted of terrorism, he would face up to 21 years in prison or an alternative custody arrangement that could keep him behind bars indefinitely.

Prosecutor Inga Bejer Engh said if the courts declare him insane, he would be given three-year terms of psychiatric care that can be extended for as long as necessary.

"If he is sentenced to compulsory mental health care, we are confident that the regulatory framework that exists is sufficient and appropriate to ensure for the protection of society," she said.

That was a key issue for Stine Renate Haaheim, a 27-year-old Labor Party lawmaker who survived the Utoya shootings. She said she believes in Norway's legal tradition of not punishing criminals who are declared mentally ill.

"But at the same time society has to protect itself," she added.

In neighboring Sweden, the forensic psychiatrist who examined the man who killed Foreign Minister Anna Lindh in 2003 expressed doubts about Breivik's diagnosis, given his extensive planning and the gruesome efficiency with which he slaughtered youths at Utoya.

Disguised as a police officer, Breivik lured youths from their hiding places, then executed them. He also reportedly had calculated how many victims he would be able to kill before being arrested.

"It is difficult to see this as criminal insanity," Anders Forsman told AP. "He seems to have carried out the killings in a rational way. He is an efficient killing machine."

Holden said Breivik claims he committed the atrocities "out of love for his people" and describes himself as a crusader knight with special powers to decide "who is to live and who is to die." Breivik considers himself a future ruler of Norway and was planning to establish "breeding projects" for Norwegians, Holden said.

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Ritter contributed from Stockholm.

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