TERKINI : Kes Kashgari : 'Court Order' - Hentikan menghantar Kashgari pulang ke Arab Saudi

Peguam hak asasi manusia dilaporkan dalam perjalanan ke Lapangan Terbang Antrabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA) dalam usaha terakhir untuk menyekat wartawan muda Arab Saudi Hamza Kashgari daripada diusir pulang ke negaranya.

Dalam mesej teks kepada Malaysiakini, peguam Fadiah Nadwa Fikri berkata Hakim Datuk Rohana Yusuf telah membenarkan perintah interim bagi menghentikan pengusiran itu.

"Kami kini dalam perjalanan untuk menyampaikan perintah ini kepada polis, imigresen dan Kementerian Dalam Negeri (KDN)," katanya.

Walau bagaimanapun, adalah tidak jelas jika Hamza masih di negara ini ataupun sudah diusir.

Agensi berita AFP yang memetik sumber kerajaan, melaporkan bahawa Hamza telah pun dihantar pulang dan kini dalamkawalan pegawai-pegawai Arab Saudi.

Dalam usahanya menjejaki Hamza, Fadiah berkata wartawan muda itu tidak dapat dikesan di Lapangan Terbang Subang.

"Tiada rekod (Hamza) di Lapangan Terbang Subang. Sekarang dalam perjalanan ke KLIA untuk serahkan perintah mahkamah. Pihak Berkuasa sengaja cuba menyekat maklumat," katanya di Twitter.

Pihak berkuasa Malaysia telah menahan Hamza minggu lalu, atas permintaan kerajaan Arab Saudi kerana  didakwa menghina Islam.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 12, 2012): Lawyers of Saudi Arabia citizen known as Hamza Kashgari, who allegedly posted blasphemous tweets on Prophet Muhammad's birthday, have managed to get a High Court injunction to stop Malaysian authorities from deporting him to Saudi Arabia.

The lawyers, led by R Kesaven, have served the injunction to the Inspector General of Police, the Home Ministry, and the Subang and KLIA immigration authorities.

"We managed to get the injunction from High Court Judge Datuk Rohana Yusof at her house this morning.

"The authorities are bound by the injunction and they would have to produce Kashgari in court on Tuesday at 9.30am after which the judge will decide. We will be filing the habeas corpus at the KL High Court tomorrow morning," said Kesavan.

Kesavan, however stated that they have yet to know the whereabouts of Kashgari. He stated that sources have verified that he is still at KLIA and on a plane bound for Saudi Arabia, waiting to be deported.

Home Ministry secretary-general Tan Sri Mahmood Adam said the ministry has yet to see the court order and will issue a statement once it has received it.

As of now, Hishammuddin's earlier statement today which stated that Malaysia will extradite Kashgari at the request of the Saudi Arabian authorities stands.

When asked whether it is true that Kashgari has been deported, Mahmood Adam said, no.

He said Kashgari is expected to be sent back later today.

The official twitter account of the Royal Malaysian Police Force (PDRM) also just issued a tweet asking to take note that the court has issued an injunction order on the deportation of Kashgari.

Former Bar Council president Ambiga Sreenivasen said that "the government will be in breach of court order just granted if they proceed to deport Kashgari".

AFP, meanwhile, reported that Kashgari has been deported through Kuala Lumpur International Airport, in the company of Saudi officials, quoting an unnamed official from an authority but checks with the KLIA police confirm that the police have yet to receive information on the deportation of Kashgari.

The 23-year old Saudi citizen, whose real name is Mohamad Najeeb A. Kashgari is a columnist with Jeddah-based Al Bilad newspaper and was reported to have made postings that insulted Islam via social networking site Twitter.

On the day of Prophet Muhammad's birthday celebration last week, Mohammad Najeeb, tweeted an imaginary conversation with the prophet, speaking to him (the prophet) as an equal, saying he liked some of his characteristics while others were not to his liking.

"On your birthday, I will say that I have loved the rebel in you, that you've always been a source of inspiration to me, and that I do not like the halos of divinity around you. I shall not pray for you," said one translated Tweet quoted by The Daily Beast.

Following his postings, some 30,000 Twitter entries venting anger at his statements were made in less than 24 hours.

There was also a video of a Saudi cleric weeping and calling for Mohammad Najeeb to be tried under Islamic law for blasphemy, as well as tens of thousands of people joining a facebook account demanding the execution of Mohammad Najeeb.

Blasphemy is punishable by death under the Saudi law.  - The Sun Daily