Saifuddin’s remark on permission for rally ‘defies logic and law’, says lawyer

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00:00The legal advisor of an anti-GRAF rally planned for this weekend has hit out at Home Minister

00:07Saifuddin Nasution Ismail for saying that permission must be obtained to hold a gathering

00:13outside the Sogo department store in Kuala Lumpur, calling the remarks ignorant and reckless.

00:19In a statement, Rights Group Lawyers for Liberty director Zayed Malik said Saifuddin's remarks

00:24defy both logic and law.

00:26He said, based on Saifuddin's rationale, no public gathering can be held in Malaysia

00:32as long as surrounding building owners object to it.

00:35Zayed also asked why the government is afraid of an anti-corruption rally when they boasted

00:40about fighting corruption.

00:42Yesterday Saifuddin told the Himpunan Rakyat Benci Raswa Secretariat that prior consent

00:48would be needed from Sogo for the rally to continue.

00:51Zayed also said that the police had no power to declare an assembly unlawful, adding that

00:56the law only required that notice be given.

01:00He said the police and Home Minister are both deliberately ignoring the provisions of the

01:04Peaceful Assembly Act.

01:07Tanyu Jo, FMT News.

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