Monday, January 28, 2008

每月1次步行2公里到警局报到 4人要求撤销上庭



(吉隆坡26日讯)4名乐龄人士在住家打麻将时遭警方上门突击,一并将其余在喝茶聊天的人士逮捕并口头传召他们上庭。

其中一名老翁叶成达(81岁)表示,这是他们首次因打麻将遭警方逮捕,他们是于2007年8月14日,约下午4时许,在他的住家搓麻将时,突遭到5至6名金马警区警员上门突击并逮捕他们。

他说,当时是3名巫裔人士及1名华裔人士打麻将,而包括他在内的其他人都在喝茶、聊天及看报纸,但是警方却将他们一共10人一起逮捕。较后,他们在口头保释后,被要求每月必须上警局报到,同时接获书面通知,要他们于同月27日出庭。

再接上庭通知

由于感到不满,于是便向民主行动党武吉免登区国会议员方贵伦投诉,结果透过方贵伦的政治秘书关柏松联络该警区雅亚助理警监及查案官查卡里亚警长,以他们10人是乐龄人士,在家打麻将只是消遣为由,要求撤销他们出庭的指示,而两位警官也答应,但是却在过了约5个月之后,却又突然接获警方口头上通知,要求他们于今年2月25日上庭。

为此,方贵伦及关柏松今天在叶成达住家召开记者会表示遗憾,出席的包括谢运芳(79岁)、戴信(70岁)及杨金生(69岁),而他们4人当天都没有打麻将。

打麻将为消遣

叶成达说,他们10人都是朋友,每个月都是从他的住家步行到金马警区报到,距离约有2公里,至今已去了4次。

他说:“退休后无所事事,打麻将只为消遣,没想到却遭到警方突击。”

方贵伦吁政府 设乐龄人士活动中心

民主行动党武吉免登区国会议员方贵伦呼吁政府应在吉隆坡一带,设立专为退休人士或乐龄人士的活动中心,以便他们可在活动中心找到打麻将以外的消遣方式。

对于警方的举动,方贵伦感到遗憾及不满,一般乐龄人士打麻将只是打发时间及其中一种消遣乐趣,方贵伦引述新加坡前总理李光耀所说的“退休后无所事事会很快造成老人痴呆及死亡”。

打麻将有益身心

“打麻将是一种手脑活动的玩意儿,对老人是有益身心的活动,当局不应打压及剥夺老人消遣的权利。然而警方却轻重不分、本末倒置。扣留并拟提控他们,还指示他们必须每月到警局报到,直到被提控为止。”

“上述乐龄人士的年龄介于69岁至85岁,每月必须战战兢兢步行到警局报到,更是不人道的精神虐待,这种措施必须停止。”

老人遭精神虐待

他呼吁金马警区主任祖卡乃助理总监,下令其属下部队应该拨出更多的时间去打击罪犯,改善隆市高居不下的犯罪指数。

根据国会的数据,吉隆坡在2007年是全国掠夺案排名第一的州属,平均每天发生8宗的掠夺案,这不但让吉隆坡的市民感到担忧,外国游客也会感到人身安全受威胁,进而影响我国的旅游业。

“警方应加派人手到市区巡逻,而不应将时间花在捉拿乐龄人士在家搓麻将,此举等同浪费纳税人的金钱。”

而关柏松说,他们将在下个星期直接与金马警区主任祖卡乃助理总监联络,要求警方撤销出庭及需要每月到警局报到的指示。

1 comment:

freedom said...

Voon Lee Shan is morally corrupt!

One of the few remaining mission schools in Sarawak, St Martin primary school in Muara Tuang, will likely shut down for good. Last November, it was sent an eviction notice from the five-hectare plot of land it occupies.

State Education Director Dr Julaihi Bujang said the 313 pupils in the largely Iban village have been transferred to Sekolah Kebangsaan Muara Tuang, SK Barangan and few other schools in the nearby the Semarahan district.

The trouble started last April, when the landowner Millah Kitat, through her legal counsel Voon Lee Shan, issued a letter giving the Anglican mission that runs the school an ultimatum: Buy the whole 12ha parcel of land on which the school stands or move out within a week.

Millah owns the land under Native Customary Rights (NCR).

When the school failed to move out within the deadline Voon, the DAP state assemblyman for Batu Lintang, served another legal letter demanding RM700,000 compensation within a week, claiming the school had trespassed on Millah's land.
To avoid further legal complications, the state Education Department ordered the school shut.

"The previous land owner Lian Teetat Emparu had divided the land for the Anglican mission to build the school but it was not legalised,” said Julaihi.

"There were some agreements drawn up by the late Emparu. The ‘agreement’ stated that the land would be ‘free of charge’, and the heir or heirs would not develop that portion of land alienated for the school," he said.

Since the agreement was not legalised, it became a point of dispute with Millah, Emparu's daughter, who inherited the land when he died.

"The legal summons issued to us is still on going. The landowner and her legal counsel did not give us much time to negotiate, and there is no way the education department of the mission can come up with the RM700,000 within seven days of the issuance of the letter, dated October 23, 3007," Julaihi said.

The state Education Department, meanwhile, has identified a piece of land near the old school and they have proposed to purchase it.

Julaihi said they are still waiting for the Education Ministry's approval, and this will take some time.

"It will take some time to pay the compensation demanded by the landowner, and it will definitely take more time to purchase land and build a school," he said.