KENYATAAN MEDIA GERAK

KENYATAAN MEDIA 12 FEBRUARI 2016

GERAK menyambut baik keputusan Peguam Negara, Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali, menamatkan pendakwaan di bawah akta Hasutan terhadap Sdr Azmi Shorom, pensyarah undang-undang di Universiti Malaya.

Seperti yang telah dimaklumkan sebelum ini, GERAK menganggapkan pendakwaan terhadap Sdr Azmi Sharom sebagai melanggar hak kebebasan bersuara yang termaktub di dalam Pelembagaan Malaysia serta ‘UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher Education Teaching Personnel’. Para akademik mempunyai  tanggungjawab untuk memberi pencerahan ilmu terhadap isu semasa dalam bidangnya kepada umum.

Dengan pembatalan pendakwaan Azmi Sharom, GERAK harap semua pihak boleh menumpukan usaha untuk membendung kejatuhan reputasi university di mata dunia. Universiti-universiti di Malaysia boleh dijadikan universiti kelas dunia.

MOVE welcomes the decision of the Attorney General , Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali, to withdraw the charges under Sedition Act against Azmi Sharom, an academic at the Law Faculty, University of Malaya.

As mentioned before in our previous statement, MOVE regarded the prosecution of Azmi Sharom as a violation of the Malaysian Constitution and the UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher Education Teaching Personnel. Academics have an obligation to use his expertise to enlighten the public on current issues related to his field.

With the termination of the prosecution of Azmi, MOVE hope everyone could now concentrate to arrest the decline of the reputation of Malaysian universities in the eyes of the world. Malaysian universities can be made to become world class universities.

Bagi pihak GERAK / On behalf of MOVE

Rosli H Mahat

Setiausaha Agung GERAK

General Secretary  MOVE