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Laporan NST yang mendakwa Tok Guru Nik Aziz bapak kafir

KOTA BHARU: Menteri Besar Kelantan Tuan Guru Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat telah menghantar notis saman kepada semua yang terlibat dengan laporan berita 'Nik Aziz father of kafir'.

Saman pula akan difaikan minggu depan terhadap mereka yang terlibat di New Strait Times dan bekas Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Rahim Noor.

Saman itu dibuat ekoran kegagalan kedua dua pihak memohon maaf dan menarik balik tuduhan terhadapnya sebagai “bapa kafir” dalam tempoh yang diberikan.

Pengerusi Lajnah Undang-undang dan Hak Asasi Manusia PAS Kelantan Hisham Fauzi (gambar) berkata, pihaknya kini sudah menyiapkan sepenuhnya dokumen dan dijangka memfaikan saman tersebut Isnin depan.

Isu UmNO Kafir : Kit Siang saman NSTP

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 8 — DAP leader Lim Kit Siang today filed a suit at the High Court here against media giant New Straits Times Press Berhad for an allegedly defamatory news report published last week in its Malay daily Berita Harian.

The Ipoh Timur MP claimed he had been defamed in a November 2 article titled “Tindakan Kit Siang tuduh Umno kafir melampau”.

“I never said it. I was not even at the ceramah,” the veteran politician told reporters at the courthouse.

Lim (picture) was referring to the Berita Harian report that cited him as calling Umno members “infidels” on the stump in the recent Galas by-election.

DAP chairman Karpal Singh, who is also Lim’s lawyer, said they will be filing a similar action against Malacca Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam in the next few days.

The newspaper had attributed some of the remarks published to Mohd Ali, who is also a veteran member of Umno, the senior party in the ruling front. - TMI

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Agen Amerika : DSAI saman NST RM100 juta

By Debra Chong

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11 — Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s RM100 million defamation suit against the country's oldest newspaper for insinuating he was an “American agent” was heard in the High Court today, six years after filing.

The former deputy prime minister claimed that the New Straits Times (NST) had tarnished his reputation in an uncredited article on March 2, 2002 headlined “Anwar's link to US lobbyist”.

“I was made to be seen in the eye of the public, the Malaysian public in particular, as a person of no integrity, moral and dignity; bereft of principles; disloyal to Malaysia; dishonest; corrupt; an untrustworthy leader and politician; an American agent and a person who has abused my positions for my personal gains,” Anwar told the High Court this morning.

Two other witnesses were called into the witness box after the 62-year-old PKR adviser.

Retired graft buster Abdul Razak Idris told the court he investigated Anwar on corruption claims totalling RM3 billion by former Bank Negara assistant governor Datuk Abdul Murad Khalid six years ago, but closed the book after finding no proof.

Abdul Razak was the director of investigations in the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA), the predecessor to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) at that time, and left the service in 2004.

He added that he travelled to Singapore to interview Abdul Murad and also to Britain to speak with Datuk Nazir Abdullah and two other Europeans whose names he no longer remembered.

Under cross examination from NST's lawyer Nad Segaram, Abdul Razak admitted he ended his investigations without visiting the US or contacting the lobbyist, Douglas H. Paal, who was linked to Anwar through an American think-tank, the Asia Pacific Policy Centre (APPC).

Rose Ismail, a former deputy group editor of NST, was the author of the article.Abdul Murad had made a statutory declaration a decade ago in which he accused Anwar of dishing out contracts to cronies in return for financial support, which he stashed away in some 10 “master accounts” abroad.

He was not called to testify, nor was NST’s former group editor-in-chief Tan Sri Abdullah Ahmad.

Anwar is also suing Abdullah for damages as he was the NST boss then.

Instead, a former NST deputy group editor, Rose Ismail, took the oath and admitted she was the author behind the article.

However, Rose, then NST's managing editor, denied his claims that she had ulterior motives and deliberately damaged his public image.

She explained that the article was based on a report published by a credible American magazine called New Republican which ran a story linking Anwar to the lobbyist.

Rose said the NST article was a follow-up to the news after Anwar's sacking from government, which she believed interested the public.

The High Court fixed submissions for tomorrow. - The Malaysian Insider

NST Ordered To Pay RM100K Damages - malaysiakini

PUTRAJAYA, Nov 11 — A journalist and two others have to pay RM100,000 in general damages to lawyer Datuk V. Muthusamy over a defamatory article published in the New Straits Times 17 years ago.

This is the outcome after the Federal Court on Nov 7 reinstated a decision of the Court of Appeal which held that a report of court proceedings published by the New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd (NSTP) was defamatory.

Federal Court judge Datuk S. Augustine Paul, in his 16-page judgment, ruled that where the report for defamation contained extracts from pleadings, they must have been read out in open court before they could be published.

“This means that pleadings can form part of the report, subject to the stipulation that they must have been read out in open court," he said.

Paul sat with Justices Datuk Nik Hashim Nik Ab Rahman and Datuk Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin, who were reviewing the decision of an earlier bench.

On Sept 14 last year, the Federal Court ordered the appeal by Joceline Tan Poh Choo, the group editor of NST and the publisher, NSTP, who were sued for defamation, to be reheard before a new panel after ruling that an earlier decision favouring them was unjust.

The five-member panel unanimously set aside the Federal Court's May 13, 2005 decision exempting Tan and two others from paying compensation to a lawyer over a defamatory article published in the NST newspaper.

It allowed Muthusamy's application to review the decision after holding that the case warranted a rehearing because the Federal Court had made a conflicting decision.

The panel comprised Chief Justice of Sabah and Sarawak Tan Sri Richard Malanjum and Federal Court judges Datuk Alauddin Mohd Sheriff (now Court of Appeal President), Datuk Abdul Aziz Mohamad, Datuk Hashim Yusoff and Datuk Azmel Ma'amor.

Abdul Aziz, in his 21-page judgment, said a rehearing of the appeal was necessary to examine the matter which the court saw as an apparent injustice.

Muthusamy had sued Tan (now no longer with the NST), the group editor of the NST and the publisher, NSTP, for libel over the publication of an article entitled "Lawyer and trader conspired to cheat me, claims driver", which appeared with his photograph in the NST on Sept 12 1991.

He claimed that the report, in its natural and ordinary meaning, meant and was understood to mean that he was a cheat and a dishonest person and not fit to practise law.

The three defendants, in their defence, said the report was fair, accurate and contemporaneous of the proceedings publicly heard before a court and therefore they were protected under the defence of absolute privilege under the Defamation Act 1957.

On Nov 10, 2000, the High Court allowed Muthusamy's claim and ordered the defendants to pay him RM300,000 in general damages and RM50,000 in aggravated damages after ruling that they had failed to prove that the report was fair, accurate and contemporaneous.

The three appealed to the Court of Appeal on liability and quantum while Muthusamy, a former Prai state assemblyman, cross-appealed on the quantum.

On Aug 1, 2003, the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal on liability but reduced the general damages to RM100,000 and set aside the RM50,000 awarded as aggravated damages. — Bernama