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Student activist Umar Mohd Azmi was today granted a stay of execution on his jail sentence after spending a weekend in Kajang Prison.
In granting the stay pending an appeal, Kuala Lumpur High Court judge Amelia Tee imposed several conditions for his bail, which was increased from RM1,000 to RM5,000.
Tee also required Umarto attend subsequent court appeal proceedings and to avoid being involved in other similar offences.
“If he is found so (involved in similar offences), the prosecution is to apply to immediately revoke his bail. Then he (Umar) will have to serve his sentence immediately,” she said.
Umar gets stay on sentence after weekend in jail
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SUNDAY MORNING VIGIL AT DATARAN MERDEKA, KUALA LUMPUR
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Umar Mohd Azmi, a participant of the ‘Occupy Dataran’ protest camp in April 2012, received a month’s jail and RM1,000 fine for obstructing a public official from performing their duties by the courts.
His appeal against conviction and imprisonment will be heard on Monday at the Kuala Lumpur court.
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The students aim to remain until tomorrow morning when they will depart to the Kuala Lumpur High Court where Umar’s appeal for a stay will be heard.
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Student activists protesting the jailing of a fellow student for last April’s anti-PTPTN protest camp have returned to re-occupy Dataran Merdeka this morning.
About 10 of them arrived at the tourist attraction, settling down at a corner of the public square, opposite the former Kuala Lumpur courthouse.
They arrived early this morning after packing up their protest camp in front of Kajang Prison, where their co-student Umar Mohd Azmi is serving his one-month prison sentence for obstructing DBKL officers during their earlier protest.
According to their spokesperson, more are due to arrive soon, and the group is planning to stay at the public space until tomorrow morning when Umar’s appeal against his conviction and jailing will be heard at the Kuala Lumpur High Court.
Their arrival and peaceful gathering was uneventful except for the appearance of a lone uniformed DBKL enforcement officer at 11.08am, who inquired about the purpose of their gathering at the iconic square.
Student activists re-occupy Dataran Merdeka
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5:12PM Dec 22, 2012 |
The harsh jail sentence imposed on student Umar Mohd Azmi is a reminder of the justice system’s failings and the government’s inability to reform it, charges DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang.
“It is utterly outrageous as well as a devastating reminder just before the 13th General Election, that despite all the sloganeering about government, economic, educational, social and political transformation programmes, the criminal justice system in Malaysia still sucks even under the four-year premiership of Najib Abdul Razak.
“The stark failure, whether under Najib or his predecessor Abdullah (Ahmad Badawi) to reform, let alone transform the criminal justice system after the ravages… caused by the 22-year premiership of Dr Mahathir Mohamad, has been vividly highlighted by the Umar case, Lim (below) said in a statement today.
This, he said, was in addition to several other unresolved mega scandals of injustice such as the murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu, death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock and other death in custody such as that of V Kugan.
‘Umar jailing reminder of judicial reform failures’
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SMM chairperson Safwan Anang: We will move from their vigil in front of the Kajang Prison to Dataran Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow morning.
There they will camp out at the iconic square, though if DBKL were to forbid an encampment they will still gather at the public space, Safwan stressed.
He added that their move to Kuala Lumpur was also to make it easier for them to attend Umar’s appeal on Monday.
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MALAYSIAKINI UPDATE:
At about noon, Umar’s family who visited him this morning stopped by to pass on Umar’s message to the students at the protest camp.
“Dunia belum kiamat, berjuang sampai tamat. (The world has not ended yet, fight till the end,” said his father, who said Umar’s fighting spirit is untouched by his ordeal.
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At a press conference at 2pm, SMM chairperson Safwan Anang told reporters that they are here to share at least some of Umar’s hardship.
“As we all were at Occupy Dataran to fight for free education but only he was arrested and imprisoned. We want to be here with him.”
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Student activists have set up a protest camp right at the eaves of Kajang prison, in support of jailed compatriot Umar Mohd Azmi who received his sentence yesterday.
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The student’s campsite at the main entrance to the detention facility is under the watchful eyes of prison security unit (UKP) personnel though they made no overt moves to interfere.
The students, about 50 of them, mainly from Solidariti Mahasiswa Malaysia (SMM gathered outside the main gates of Kalang Prison at 8pm yesterday where students leaders from SAM and representative from P.M. addressed them.
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Malaysiakini observed several plainclothes police officers monitoring the students while the prison officers watch from their roadside security checkpoint and at the main entrance.
Students camp outside prison in show of support
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“It is already late. He (the DPP) has already left,” Nur A’minatul said about 4.30pm.”
As a result, Umar was this evening taken to the Kajang Prison to begin his jail sentence.
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Umar Mohd Azmi, the ‘Occupy Dataran’ student who was jailed for a month and fined RM1,000 for obstructing a public officer, will spend his weekend in Kajang Prison after failing to obtain a stay of execution on his sentence.
The stay application was filed in the Kuala Lumpur High Court immediately after a magistrate found him guilty this morning.
High Court judge Amelia Tee was ready to hear the matter in the afternoon, but Umar’s counsel could not locate the deputy public prosecutor (DPP) responsible for the case.
Court officer Nur A’minatul Mardiah told Malaysiakini that the High Court could not proceed as the notice for the application “was not served on time” to the DPP.
It’s off to Kajang Prison for ‘Occupy Dataran’ student
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Malaysiakini
| 10:30AM Dec 21, 2012 |
The magistrate’s court has slapped an ‘Occupy Dataran’ student with a month’s jail and a RM1,000 fine for obstructing a Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) officer from carrying out his duties during a raid on the student movement in April.
The student, Umar Mohd Azmi, was charged on April 23 under Section 186 of the Penal Code with obstructing DBKL officer Mohd Masran Mamat from “apprehending and escorting” activist Mohd Fahmi Reza Mohd Zarin into custody.
This allegedly took place during a surprise DBKL raid on a protest camp at Dataran Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur about 8am on April 22.
‘Occupy Dataran’ student gets a month’s jail, fine
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From Wikipedia
Occupy Dataran is an autonomous grassroots movement based in Kuala Lumpur, that aims to create a platform to experiment participatory democracy based on the popular assembly model. The Malaysian Insider reported that Occupy Dataran were an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street. The online news portal also reported that the Malaysian protesters were expressing solidarity with the New York protest movement as part of the 15 October 2011 global protests. However, it is widely acknowledged that the first Occupy Dataran assembly was held on 30 July 2011, seven weeks before Occupy Wall Street.
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autonomous grassroots movement based in Kuala Lumpur, that aims to create a platform to experiment participatory democracy based on the popular …en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Dataran – Cached
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Free Malaysia Today
The story behind Occupy Dataran
FMT Video presents a look at what prompts people to occupy Dataran Merdeka.
www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2012/05/23/the… – Cached
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