Oleh: Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad
AMK amatlah kecewa dengan hukuman mati yang dijatuhkan ke atas pemimpin-pemimpin dan para aktivis Mesir, termasuklah Presiden yang telah digulingkan, Mohamed Morsi, Pemimpin Kanan Ikhwanul Muslimin, Mohamed Badie dan ulama’ tersohor Dr Yusuf Al Qaradawi (seorang tokoh Ma’al Hijrah Malaysia) di atas beberapa tuduhan.
Malah, terdapat 105 orang lain yang dijatuhkan hukuman mati oleh mahkamah Mesir.
Seperti yang dinyatakan oleh Amnesty International di dalam kes Presiden Morsi, “Menjatuhkan hukuman mati ke atas Mohamed Morsi selepas perbicaraan yang tidak adil hanya memperlekehkan hak asasi manusia.
Beliau telah dihukum walaupun belum sempat menjejak kaki ke mahkamah. Beliau telah ditahan berbulan-bulan tanpa bayang, dan tidak mendapat pengawasan kehakiman, malah tidak diwakili peguam semasa soal siasat.
Hal-hal ini jelas mencerminkan bahawa perbicaraan ini adalah sandiwara semata-mata berdasarkan prosedur yang tidak sah.”
Saya juga bersetuju dengan kutukan keras Presiden Turki, Reccep Tayyip Erdogen, yang menyatakan, “Mesir sudah berubah menjadi Mesir zaman purba”.
Beliau juga berhujah bahawa negara-negara Barat terus buat tak endah berkenaan rampasan kuasa Sisi dan hanya mampu melihat hukuman yang melampau di Mesir ini walaupun di negara sendiri mereka menghapuskan hukuman mati.
Malang sekali, masih belum terdapat sebarang kenyataan rasmi daripada kerajaan Malaysia untuk mengutuk hukuman mati tersebut. Adakah ini kerana kerajaan BN berasa malu dengan penyalahgunaan mahkamah undang-undang tersendiri?
Tambahan pula, perkara ini berlaku pada masa yang sama dengan krisis kemanusiaan Rohingya di Asia Tenggara di mana Malaysia masih belum bertindak mempertahankan nilai-nilai kemanusiaan.
Sikap acuh tak acuh oleh Pengerusi ASEAN dan ahli Majlis Keselamatan Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu ini adalah amat mengecewakan.
Ini jauh berbeza dengan tradisi kita memperjuangkan keadilan di Afrika
Selatan, Palestin, Bosnia Herzegovina, Negara Thai dan Filipina.
AMK menggesa kerajaan Malaysia untuk menekan kerajaan Mesir agar menarik semula hukuman-hukuman mati tersebut dan menggalakkan usaha ke arah pendamaian politik yang berkesan.
Pada masa yang sama, kerajaan juga harus menggerakkan usaha serantau untuk menamatkan keganasan dan penindasan ke atas komuniti Rohingya di Myanmar dan mencari penyelasaian kemanusiaan di dalam isu pelarian itu.
* Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad adalah Ketua AMK Pusat
KEADILAN YOUTH CONDEMNS DEATH SENTENCE OF EGYPTIAN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LEADERS
KEADILAN Youth is deeply disheartened by the recent spate of death sentences imposed on Egyptian leaders and activists, including deposed President Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and esteemed cleric Dr Yusuf Al Qaradawi (our own Tokoh Ma’al Hijrah) over a number of charges.
Indeed, another 105 people have also been sentenced to death by Egyptian courts.
As Amnesty International has stated in the case of President Morsi, “Condemning Mohamed Morsi to death after more grossly unfair trials shows a complete disregard for human rights. His trials were undermined even before he set foot in the courtroom. The fact that he was held for months incommunicado without judicial oversight and that he didn’t have a lawyer to represent him during the investigations makes these trials nothing but a charade based on null and void procedures.”
I am keen to agree with Turkish President, Reccep Tayyip Erdogan who has condemned the act saying, “Egypt has turned into ancient Egypt”. It is difficult to argue with his statement that the West is still turning a blind eye to Sisi’s coup and that they remain mere spectators at this execution (of the death sentence) in Egypt even though they abolish the death sentence in their own country.
It is very disappointing that no Malaysian government figure has yet spoken out against the various death sentences. Is it because we are embarrassed by our own abuse of the judicial institution?
This also comes in light of Malaysia’s continued inaction over the growing Rohingya humanitarian crisis in Southeast Asia.
This is lackadaisical behaviour on the part of the Chair of ASEAN as
well as a member of the UN Security Council is deeply worrying and a complete let-down.
This is far different from our tradition of fighting for justice in
South Africa, Bosnia Herzegovina, Palestine, Thailand and the
Philippines.
KEADILAN Youth urges the government of Malaysia to pressure the government of the Arab Republic of Egypt to rescind the death sentences and embark on a substantive program of political reconciliation. At the same time, it must mobilize regional support to end the violence and oppression against Burma’s Rohingya community as well as find a humanitarian solution to the refugee issue.
NIK NAZMI NIK AHMAD
PARTI KEADILAN RAKYAT YOUTH LEADER