Nazri, The New Human Rights Proponent!

Excerpts from NST report, page 2, Prime News, November 23, 2005.

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"It was clear that there was a violation of their human rights," Datuk Seri Nazri said.

Datuk Seri Nazri, the Human Rights Parliamentary Caucus chairman, said the Immigration Department had responded wrongly and was trying to justify what they had done to girls from China.

"If only two or three girls from China were actually guilty of offences, it’s not fair to profile all girls from China as being the same," he said.

"Azmi (Home Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid) should apply his own principle to the girls from China and advise his Immigration officers of the same," added Nazri.

"It was inappropriate and unfair to blame immigration officers just because one or two of them might have gone overboard."

Nazri asked:

"How would you like it if China said all Malaysians who went there were terrorists?"

"If 50,000 Chinese tourists have yet to leave the country, the enforcement should take action instead of stopping tourists from coming here."

Nazri said he had received information that three female tourists were harassed after the matter was brought to the attention of the media.

"Instead of the police taking action against their members, they have instead gone to the girls’ houses in the middle of the night to knock on their doors."

"How can we trust them to conduct investigations fairly?" asked Nazri.

The Star reported that three Chinese women who had claimed they were humiliated by the police while under custody have now allegedly been harassed at their home by policemen.

The women – Yu Xuezhen, Gu Xiuhua and Wu Xiaohua – claimed that policemen came to their home about 2am yesterday.

One of three women refused to open the door when the policemen knocked on her door. The men then went outside the apartment block and shouted until the woman’s husband came down.

The police claimed their action was to check whether the women were with their husbands, and at the addresses they had provided.

Nazri said the late-night visit by the police to the women’s home was clearly harassment and an act to subject the victims to duress or undue influence.

“If this thing goes on, we are really living in a police state. We cannot even complain about them because they will put fear in us for doing it,” Nazri said.

I had nothing to add ... every words from Nazri is crystal clear, and a concurrence of the factual cultures and practices within the system.