Thursday, August 30, 2012

Shocking! Statutory Rape can be consensual?

Latest news that has shocked the Nation and every parent that wants to protect their child!

It would seem that the latest verdict by our courts has ruled that The Courts in Malaysia can at any time rule that statutory rape can be consensual!
Only in Malaysia!

By definition worldwide:
Statutory rape refers to sexual relations/acts involving someone below the "age of consent."
ANY PERSON below the age of consent cannot legally consent to having sex. This means that sex with them, by definition, violates the law. (no such thing as consensual!)

SHOCKING THE NATION
HOW THEN can The Court of Appeal even state that sex had been consensual?


News: NOW

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 ― PKR’s “exposé man” Rafizi Ramli will launch his latest pet project today ― the National Oversight and Whistleblowers Centre or “NOW” ― a non-profit outfit to encourage whistleblowers come forward at a time when public confidence in government agencies has reached an all-time low.
........read details at The Malaysian Insider

Monday, August 6, 2012

Malaysia: prosecuting the Whistle Blowers?


Malaysia still prosecuting Whistle-blowers? 

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 6 — Putrajaya’s move to charge Rafizi Ramli has only served to raise the PKR strategy chief’s public stature in the run-up to key national polls as it appears to run counter to the federal government’s pledge to combat corruption, a Singapore paper suggested today.

Rafizi was charged on August 1 with violating the Banking and Financial Institutions Act (BAFIA) in exposing confidential banking details related to National Feedlot Corporation Sdn Bhd (NFCorp), in a case that has put whistleblower protection laws under greater scrutiny.  read more at: