{"id":4646,"date":"2009-05-08T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2009-05-08T13:00:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T05:00:52","slug":"monash-students-protest-arrest-of-lecturer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/05\/08\/monash-students-protest-arrest-of-lecturer\/","title":{"rendered":"Monash students protest arrest of lecturer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is a first.\u00a0 I never heard of any private college\/university students protesting before. Anyway, the issue is the arrest of BERSIH activitist Wong Chin Huat for allegedly seditious act of inciting the public to wear black (wonder how LKW staff will feel!) due to\u00a0 \u2018death of democracy&#8217; in Perak. He had been wearing black for last 89 days before his arrest under section 4 of Sedition Act. So, about 20 0r so of his students at Monash University, calling themselves\u00a0 Students of Chin Huat Against Repression (SCAR) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/5\/8\/nation\/3861683&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">gathered at the campu<\/a>s and issued a statement:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement, the group \u2013\u00a0 \u2013 demanded Wong\u2019s immediate release, saying Wong, who was arrested under Sedition Act on Tuesday night, did not do anything wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe university\u2019s students and former students strongly condemn his arrest,\u201d it said, adding that Wong only wanted to make Malaysia a cleaner and more democratic country and urged the college to make a stand on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The students gathered for 10 minutes at the campus\u2019 main gate at 12.30pm before dispersing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Interestingly, according to MOHE official, the Universities and University Colleges Act did not apply to private higher education institutions.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p>\u201cEven for public universities, the Act does not apply to Universiti Teknologi Mara and International Islamic University Malaysia as both have their own Acts,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hmm&#8230;so there are thousands of students out there who can voice out their thoughts without fear from overzealous officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The police, as usual, <a href=\"http:\/\/malaysiakini.com\/news\/103842\" target=\"_blank\">arrested people who came to the candlelight vigils<\/a> in support of Wong at police station for the last two nights. There were also arrests in Kuching, Sarawak. Even lawyers who came to represent the detained were arrested, a move which pissed off the Bar Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a first.\u00a0 I never heard of any private college\/university students protesting before. Anyway, the issue is the arrest of BERSIH activitist Wong Chin Huat for allegedly seditious act of inciting the public to wear black (wonder how LKW staff will feel!) due to\u00a0 \u2018death of democracy&#8217; in Perak. He had been wearing black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,27],"class_list":["post-4646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-education","tag-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4648,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions\/4648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}