Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email the media carried few important points:
– syed hamid to get police feedback
– syed hamid to take action at appropriate time
– samy won’t meet PM
the most critical point is the number two. What is the appropriate time and what decision would that be?
Samy meets Syed Hamid on Hindraf 5 release
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Chan Kok Leong | Apr 3, 08 6:40pm
Samy Vellu, who called for the release of the five detainees on Sunday, met Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar this afternoon to discuss their release. “We understand that the five were detained to preserve the security of the country but now after more than four months, we hope that the government will reconsider their detention,” said Samy Vellu.
“The Home Minister said that they will have to seek the police’s view on this before reconsidering and that he (Syed Hamid) cannot decide unilaterally.” The 72-year-old said MIC will leave it to the minister to sort it out and take the appropriate action.
Samy Vellu also said that he would not be raising the issue with Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi because the matter was under the home minister’s purview and not the prime minister’s anymore.
Samy Vellu meets Syed Hamid over detainees
PUTRAJAYA: MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu yesterday put forward the party’s appeal to the Home Ministry for the release of the five Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) detainees.
He said at the time of the illegal Hindraf rally in November last year, it appeared that the movement was a threat to national security.
“It is now about four months since their detention and we appeal to the government to consider releasing them,” he said after a meeting with Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar at the ministry here.
Samy Vellu said he was informed by the minister that in order to do so, the government needed to get the views of the police. “I leave it in his hands to take action at the appropriate time,” he said after the meeting.
He was accompanied by Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramiam, who is also MIC secretary-general, and Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department S.K. Devamany.
Asked if he would appeal to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Samy Vellu said it would not be appropriate to do so as Abdullah was no longer the minister in charge of internal security. (This portfolio has been merged with the Home Ministry in the new cabinet.)
Cops’ views on Hindraf five needed
PUTRAJAYA: Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar has to seek the views of the police first before he can make a decision on the request for the release of the five Hindraf leaders detained under the ISA.
MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said he had “requested” Syed Hamid, with whom he had a 40-minute meeting yesterday, to make a decision at an appropriate time.
To a question whether he would meet Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to appeal for the Hindraf leaders, Samy Vellu said he would not do so at the moment. “Syed Hamid is the Home Minister and this matter is in his hands and not with the Prime Minister,” he said.
