Press Releases – Page 7

Press Release: Tens of thousands of alleged voters are being flown and bussed to key battleground states and constituencies

4th May 201323rd July 2015 admin

Media Statement, 3 May 2013 The most critical elections in Malaysia’s history are likely to be stolen from the rakyat with a series of fraudulent moves on the eve of polling day. Tens of thousands of alleged voters are being flown and bussed to key battleground states and constituencies. Bersih 2.0 condemns this blatant move to defy the wishes of genuine voters across Malaysia. Flying in jumbojet planeloads of people – be they citizens or non-citizens who have been illegitimately granted citizenship in order to vote – is an act…

Press Release: Support Malaysians aspiring for a better Malaysia through free and fair elections

21st April 201323rd July 2015 admin

The Malaysian campaign for free and fair elections, BERSIH 2.0*, has launched a new phase of advocacy to draw support from the international community to spotlight the country in the run-up to the 13th General Elections (GE13), scheduled for 5 May 2013. Through a social media campaign, BERSIH 2.0 invites friends of Malaysia everywhere to join the proactive, pre-emptive and peaceful effort to monitor the ongoing electoral process as well as the postelections period. Dubbed the GLOBAL BERSIH DAY(S) OF RE-ACTION!, the campaign begins on 21 APRIL 2013 on social media and other networks. Information…

EC a block to voters as partisan colours glare

20th April 201320th September 2015 admin

PRESS STATEMENT 19 April 2013 The Elections Commission is actively working to prevent Malaysians from doing their constitutional duty and voting on polling day, 5 May 2013. According to recent media reports in Singapore, Malaysia’s EC intends to prohibit cars with foreign plates from ferrying Malaysian citizens to voting centres across the country. It is now well past time for the EC to stop its overt and covert attempts in suppressing the right of Malaysians to freely cast their votes in the 13th general election. Global Bersih condemns this EC…

MyOverseasVote and Global Bersih Call on Overseas Malaysians to Vote in the 13th General Election, and Press the EC to Allow Postal Voting Observers

29th January 201323rd July 2015 admin

Background MyOverseasVote has been campaigning since October 2010 for Malaysians residing outside Malaysia to be given the right to vote by post. In January 2013, the Election Commission (EC) announced that Malaysians residing overseas except in Singapore, southern Thailand (Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala, Songkhla and Satun), Kalimantan and Brunei would be allowed to apply to vote by post provided that they had been in Malaysia for at least 30 days in total during the previous five years. MyOverseasVote and Global Bersih do not accept that the additional restrictions imposed by the…

Suaram: Malaysia Mentioned 3 Times at UN Human Rights Council

23rd June 2012 admin

22 June 2012 Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Assembly and Association, Maina Kiai’s reporting session resumed today where he mentioned Malaysia on numerous occasions in his closing speech. Maina Kiai affirmed his intention to continue constructive dialogue and debate with a number of countries he had visited and to those to which he sent a request to enable him to carry out his mandate. Malaysia was specifically mentioned. The Special Rapporteur in his observations pointed out that an increasing worrying trend was that of governments worldwide using legislative powers to…

Press Release: Burger stall protest is first step to lawlessness, says Global Bersih

11th May 201223rd July 2015 admin

11 May 2012 THE shocking spectacle of yesterday’s burger stall incident outside the home of Ambiga Sreenevasan was a public threat against a very respected Malaysian figure that must never be allowed to happen again, Global Bersih said today. There is no running away from the fact that Ikhlas, its chairman Mohamed Ridzuan Abdullah and the others held the personal safety of Dato Ambiga, her friends and family hostage by their action. To call it a ‘gimmick’, as reported in the press, is to make light of a public threat to the…

Press Release – Dataran violence will stain government hands, says Global Bersih

27th April 2012 admin

26 April 2012 Global Bersih statement ANY violence at any Bersih 3.0 Duduk Bantah event in Malaysia will ultimately stain the Barisan Nasional-led government and Malaysia’s federal police, Global Bersih says. Hapless citizens in Malaysia standing for nothing more than fair and free elections have received no support from either PutraJaya, or a police force whose job it is to ensure the safety of Malaysians, irrespective of race, creed, religion or political affiliation. Such a travesty of justice and fair play has been perpetrated on Malaysia even as citizens overseas…

Statement by Professor Damien Kingsbury – Australian mission volunteers to observe elections

26th April 201223rd July 2015 admin

26 April 2012 Malaysia is facing a political crisis. Its government appears to have lost electoral legitimacy and is facing its biggest challenge to holding onto power since independence half a century ago. As with the flowering of democratic movements in other countries over the past year, Malaysia now appears to be approaching its own ‘democratic spring’. In order for forestall this blossoming of democracy in Malaysia, the government has hobbled the electoral commission, has rorted the electoral process through disproportionate parliamentary seats and a range of other matters that continue to require investigation.…

Global Bersih: Letter to All Australian Parliamentarians

24th April 201223rd July 2015 admin

TO: All Australian Senators, Members of the House of Representatives FROM: Global Bersih, an international group of Malaysians (see www.globalbersih.org) 22 April 2012 URGENT: MALAYSIA NEEDS YOUR HELP MALAYSIANS and friends of Malaysians in Australia call upon you as an elected representative to help us address what is perhaps the most democratically destructive development in Malaysia’s history. ISSUE Malaysia imminently risks entering an era of tyranny as the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition government, which has ruled uninterrupted for 55 years, prepares to call for federal elections that will be corruptly conducted to guarantee victory. An Election Commission…

20 April 2012 – Bersih 2.0 Press Statement – Amendment to the Election Offences Act 1954.

20th April 201220th April 2012 admin

BERSIH 2.0 PRESS STATEMENT 20 April 2012 Yesterday, the 19th of April 2012, many Bills were rushed through Parliament. One of them which appears to have escaped the attention of the public was a Bill that sought to amend the Election Offences Act 1954. The amendments are, to say the least, shocking and have far reaching consequences upon the voting process. They are designed solely for the purpose of making the voting process less transparent. Needless to say this Bill was passed. 1. Those that publish defamatory, racist and sexist remarks may do so…