DIPLOMACY
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In March, Siti Aisyah's murder charge was dismissed, and she was released.
[148] It was later revealed by both the Indonesian and Vietnamese media that
her release was due to a request letter sent by the Indonesian government, which received a response from the Malaysian attorney general
Tommy Thomas,
[144][145][146] this was later admitted by Thomas and confirmed by
Reuters,
[149]although Thomas refused to respond to other media sources when asked to comment on the decision.
[150][151] On March 13, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department
Liew Vui Keong further explained to the media that the power to dismiss charges against any individual in the country rests with the nation's attorney general as established in the
constitution.
[152] Despite similar callings from the Vietnamese government to release their citizen in the manner of the Indonesian suspect,[153] the Malaysian prosecutors rejected the request and said the trial would continue to proceed with a postponement until April 1 due to the defendant's poor health and psychological condition since she had not slept for the past three nights following the abrupt decision by the Malaysian attorney general to drop the charges against Aisyah.
[154][155] The defence lawyers for Hương felt the Malaysian government was practicing discrimination in the
judiciary system since the court before has stated it found a
prima facie case against both of the accused but only released one of them, providing reasons for doing so such as "
taking consideration of good relations between Indonesia and Malaysia thus agreed to the passage of nolle prosequi for Aisyah" as evidenced from the recent discovery of hidden letter delivered by the attorney general of Malaysia to the
Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human Rights as a response towards their appeal request.
[154][156] the Malaysian attorney general's different treatment towards the two suspects in the case attracted criticism from the member of Malaysian government itself, one of them being
Ramkarpal Singh, the Malaysian Member of Parliament for
Bukit Gelugor who felt that Thomas's refusal to withdraw the murder charge against the second suspect was "mind boggling and raises questions about the powers of attorney general in the country".
Vietnamese
Foreign Affairs MinistrySpokeswoman Lê Thị Thu Hằng regretted the Malaysian attorney generals decision and called for a fair trial on the case.
[159] Her statement was echoed by other Vietnamese ministers, such as Foreign Minister
Phạm Bình Minh, Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyễn Quốc Dũng, as well as Vietnamese ambassador to Malaysia Lê Quý Quỳnh.
[160][161] In Indonesia, the shocking release of Siti Aisyah also become a polemic since there are sources stating
the release as a result of political lobbying by the Indonesian government towards the Malaysian government since the administration of previous Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak until
Mahathir Mohamadadministration, despite Mahathir's refusal to acknowledge the claim and stressing the release was done based on the "
rule of law".
[162][163][164] Bridget Welsh, a Southeast Asia expert with
John Cabot University in
Rome of Italy had pointed out that the unfair and discriminated decision practiced by the Malaysian judiciary will risk a "thorny
bilateralproblem with Vietnam if there is no similar treatment towards their citizen".
[165]Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) President
Wee Ka Siong also expressed his concern over possible meddling in the trial outcome that would undermine the independence of the Malaysian attorney general, citing his obtained reply to a written question during a Parliament session in Malaysia where Prime Minister Mahathir said to him that the attorney general could still follow his directive even though the attorney general had the discretion to decide on the timeline for criminal prosecution procedures.
[166] His statement was followed by the party spokeswoman Chan Quin Er who observed the early statement made by Ramkarpal are in line to hold the justice in the country fairly, stressing that "everyone was equal before the law and that the law should not discriminate", adding to her perception on the "Malaysian judiciary that have been compromised due to exaggerated politicking will be a sad day for the country much over when the preference of racial and religious similarities between Indonesia and Malaysia become the reason for the charges against Siti Aisyah to be dropped but not for Hương despite both are under similar charges".
[167]
Outgoing President of the
Malaysian BarGeorge Varughese similarly expressed his opinion that although he believes the attorney general may have his own reason, the latter are still required to explained his reasons for the dropping of charges on only one of the two accused, than remain silent to avoid speculation that undermine the integrity of the country judiciary systems.
[168] Other Malaysian lawyers see the dropping of charges towards Siti Aisyah as a definite discrimination towards Hương, not only in the sense of the country justice system but also to the eye of public who mostly want a fair and transparent trial as being voiced by lawyer Nur Hannan Ishak.
[169] He further adds that it is strange that the prosecutors choose to pursue the case for Hương but not Siti Aisyah since if a retraction of charges has been made for Siti Aisyah based on the same accused's factor, then the same should be done for Hương.
[169] According to lawyer Shaharuddin Ali, the strategic importance relations between two involved countries has nothing to do with the law but this power are indeed given in the hands for national lawyers where the consideration covers broad things with the lawyer is entitled to decide whether to prosecute a person, to release, to stop the prosecution or to reduce the charge from serious to non-serious etc. according to the basis of public interest under law perspectives despite they are still entitled to taking into consideration of the strategic diplomatic relations between Malaysia and Indonesia.
[169] Another Malaysian lawyer Rajsurian Pillai pointed out the same view with lawyer Shaharuddin and explained to the media that it is undeniably the only single reason why the prosecutor dropped Siti Aisyah's charges are primarily
politically motivated by taking into the consideration of close relationship between Malaysia and Indonesia since the court had already found a
prima facie case against both of the accused without needing to drop the charges that has been made towards Aisyah.
[169]
On 1 April 2019, the murder charge against Hương was dropped, and she pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of "voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means".
[170]She was sentenced to three years and four months in prison, but received a one-third reduction in her term, and was released on 3 May 2019.
[171][172]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Kim_Jong-nam
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Well sometimes there is a hiccup in relationship between two country, but we a re still serumpun.
There's a lot of indonesian that act like that on internet, we supa puwa, we wuz kang and sheit, luckily not in this forum(maybe one of you that lurking in this thread is one of them?) if there is one let just 'deradicalize' them.
We need to red pill them and bring them to jalan yang benar.
