FREE TAN HOON CHENG!
September 13, 2008
It is totally unacceptable and intolerable. My former comrade at journalism, Tan Hoon Cheng, is detained under Internal Security Act, on Friday’s night at or about 8.30 pm.
She is detained under Internal Security Act, because she was reporting the Ahamd Ismail’s racist statement “accurately”.
Bear in mind, Ahmad Ismail did not refute that he has made the racist remark.
Therefore, VoiceOfPolitics seriously urged the Malaysian Government, to release Tan Hoon Cheng immediately.
Meanwhile, as VoiceOfPolitics was told, Gerakan is going to have an emergency meeting soonest possible, in response to the current political environment.
“The withdrawal of Gerakan from Barisan Nasional definitely is an agenda on the meeting table. There is no way for Gerakan to tolerate such a draconian act of the present government.” A senior leader told me this.
Once again, VoiceOfPolitics seriously urged the Gerakan to reconsider the option of withdrawal, which Gerakan shall not become an accomplish to a racial politics and draconian government.
The windows of opportunity, just re-opened.
[...] sordid day of infamy for Malaysia – the first time in our history a mainstream press journalist (TAN Hoon Cheng) is arrested for reporting facts, as explained by her newspaper on 8th Sep 2008: On 25th August, [...]
Show the Rakyat that Gerakan got guts to defend the justice and speak for Rakyat!
Frankly speaking, I totally respect the patience of the Gerakan……