October 2015

Sabah secessionist says she was left with no choice but to obtain UK travel documents after the Malaysian government refused to renew her passport.

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah secessionist activist Doris Jones will be returning to Malaysia but with a UK passport.

Based in London, Jones has said that she is definitely planning to make a trip back to Sabah with her new travel documents after her application to renew her Malaysian passport was rejected, according to a report in the Star Online.

“I won’t tell you when, but I will come back. I have family there,’’ Jones said when contacted in London by telephone yesterday.

Jones, whose full name is Doris Yapp Kim Young, posted on her Facebook page on Sunday that she had settled her passport problems in the United Kingdom without any problems.

According to her, she has not given up her Malaysian citizenship by applying for the UK passport, which she was entitled to having been a permanent resident of the United Kingdom for the last 20 years.

“It is not my intention to change my passport from Malaysian passport to United Kingdom international passport, but it is the fault of Malaysian government for rejecting a Sabah citizen from continuing to stay in Malaysia,” she said.

“I have not applied for British citizenship. I only applied for a travel document as Malaysia is refusing to renew my passport.”

Jones, who runs the Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia (SSKM) movement, said that her application to renew her passport at the Malaysian High Commission in London was rejected, though she was offered an emergency one-way travel document to renew her passport in Putrajaya.

“I want to renew my passport in Kota Kinabalu. Why Putrajaya?” she asked.

A court in Tuaran had issued an arrest warrant against Jones in January, ordering her appearance in court to answer a charge under the Sedition Act for allegedly promoting the secession of Sabah and Sarawak from Malaysia.

Malaysian police requested Interpol’s help to trace Jones in February but were reported by The Star as saying later in May that they could not extradite her from London as Britain, which has abolished its sedition laws, did not recognise her “crime”.

Sabah dan Sarawak akan turut mengikut jejak langkah sekiranya Johor meninggalkan Persekutuan Malaysia, kata Timbalan Menteri Dalam Negeri Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed.

Nur Jazlan yang juga merupakan ahli Parlimen Pulai berkata, meskipun beliau menghormati pandangan Tunku Mahkota Johor Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim, usaha untuk menyatukan Malaysia tidak seharusnya dipengaruhi sentimen kenegerian kerana ia bakal memberikan kesan kepada keharmonian negara.

“Kita berjaya membentuk sebuah negara sejak beberapa tahun sebelum ini walaupun penjajah beranggapan kita akan gagal kerana latar belakang kepelbagaian etnik dan agama.

“Hidup dengan harmoni adalah sebahagian daripada kebanggaan Malaysia. Jika ia berlaku, (Johor meninggalkan Malaysia), Sabah dan Sarawak juga berkemungkinan akan mengikut jejak langkah yang sama,” katanya dalam kenyataan itu.

Tunku Mahkota Johor Tunku Ismail Ibrahim sebelum ini dilaporkan berkata, semua negeri termasuk Johor mempunyai hak untuk menarik diri daripada Malaysia jika mana-mana terma dalam perjanjian antara Johor dan Persekutuan Tanah Melayu tidak dipatuhi.

Dalam satu temu bual bersama laman sesawang sukan FourthOfficial.com, Tunku Mahkota Johor itu berkata kenyataannya mungkin akan disifatkan menghasut namun beliau lebih bimbang dan mengutamakan rakyat negeri itu.

"Saya akan menjadi Sultan pada masa depan dan tanggungjawab utama saya ialah kepada rakyat Johor.

"Malaysia sangat penting kepada saya, tetapi Johor dan JDT keutamaan saya," katanya. 

"Bertahun kita hidup aman dan bebas. Malah, kita hanya menyertai Persekutuan Tanah Melayu, apabila kedua-dua pihak bersetuju dengan beberapa syarat-syarat asas.

"Dan jika mana-mana terma itu dilanggar, kita ada hak untuk menarik diri daripada negara ini.

"Anda boleh menuduh saya menghasut sentimen kenegerian, tapi saya hanya menjalankan tugas saya kepada rakyat Johor, dan mengingatkan mereka tentang sejarah dan warisan tanah yang besar ini. "

Jun lalu, adindanya Tunku Idris Sultan Ibrahim mencetuskan kontroversi apabila memuat naik tulisan berkaitan perjanjian bersama dengan Persekutuan Tanah Melayu.

Dalam status di Instagram yang sudah dipadam antaranya menyebut Johor bersetuju menandatangani perjanjian 1946 itu dengan mengenakan beberapa syarat.

Perjanjian itu termasuk Islam menjadi agama negeri, air dan tanah negeri menjadi hak mutlak Johor serta askar timbalan setia tidak boleh dibubarkan.

Tunku Idris juga tidak terkecuali mengkritik Putrajaya selain bapanya Sultan Johor yang menggesa kerajaan menyelesaikan masalah ekonomi negara dan penyusutan nilai ringgit. – 18 Oktober, 2015.

Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim menegaskan semua negeri termasuk Johor mempunyai hak untuk menarik diri dari Malaysia jika mana-mana terma dalam perjanjian antara Johor dan Persekutuan Tanah Melayu tidak dipatuhi.

Dalam satu temu bual dalam laman web sukan FourthOfficial.com, Tunku Mahkota Johor itu berkata kenyataannya mungkin akan disifatkan menghasut namun beliau lebih bimbang dan mengutamakan rakyat negeri itu.

"Saya akan menjadi Sultan pada masa depan dan tanggungjawab utama saya ialah kepada rakyat Johor. 

 "Malaysia sangat penting kepada saya, tetapi Johor dan JDT keutamaan saya," katanya.

Tunku Ismail berkata, rakyat mempunyai hak untuk tahu keadaan huru-hara yang berlaku di Malaysia hari ini tidak mempunyai kaitan dengan Istana Johor.

"Bertahun kita hidup aman dan bebas.

"Malah, kami hanya menyertai Persekutuan Tanah Melayu, apabila kedua-dua pihak bersetuju dengan beberapa syarat-syarat asas.

"Dan jika mana-mana terma itu dilanggar, kita ada hak untuk menarik diri daripada negara ini. 

"Anda boleh menuduh saya menghasut sentimen kenegerian, tapi saya hanya menjalankan tugas saya kepada rakyat Johor, dan mengingatkan mereka tentang sejarah dan warisan tanah yang besar ini. "

Jun lalu, adindanya Tunku Idris Sultan Ibrahim mencetuskan kontroversi apabila memuat naik tulisan berkaitan perjanjian bersama dengan Persekutuan Tanah Melayu.

Dalam status di Instagram yang sudah dipadam antaranya menyebut Johor bersetuju menandatangani perjanjian 1946 itu dengan mengenakan beberapa syarat.

Perjanjian itu termasuk Islam menjadi agama negeri, air dan tanah negeri menjadi hak mutlak Johor serta askar timbalan setia tidak boleh dibubarkan.

Tunku Idris juga tidak terkecuali mengkritik Putrajaya selain bapanya Sultan Johor yang menggesa kerajaan menyelesaikan masalah ekonomi negara dan penyusutan nilai ringgit.

Beberapa bulan lalu, Tunku Ismail turut dibidas dengan Menteri Pelancongan dan Kebudayaan Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz ekoran mengkritik Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak kerana tidak muncul dalam program Nothing2Hide.

Beliau juga pernah menegur Ahli Majlis Tertinggi Umno Datuk Mohd Puad Zarkashi kerana mengatakan hubungan antara perdana menteri dan Istana Johor baik.

Tunku Ismail berkata Puad tidak seharusnya membuat kenyataan jika tidak mengetahui keadaan sebenar.

Dalam wawancara bersama FourthOfficial.com, Tunku Ismail berbicara mengenai sukan bola sepak, JDT dan perancangan dalam industri itu. – 16 Oktober, 2015.

If Johor leaves Malaysia, Borneo states Sarawak and Sabah may want to follow suit, Deputy Home Minister Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed said, The Sunday Star reported today.

Responding to Johor crown prince Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim, who warned that Johor had every right to secede from the country if any of the terms in the agreement between Johor and the Federation of Malaya were breached, Nur Jazlan said he respected the prince’s personal view.

However, the Pulai lawmaker said 60 years of effort to unite Malaysia should not be hampered by state-based sentiments, which could jeopardise the country’s harmony.

He said the country’s struggle to ensure continuous unity and development should not go in vain, and that Malaysia had proven its former colonisers wrong as the nation had stood united despite racial and cultural differences.

“We have managed to develop as a nation over the years despite our former colonisers predicting that we would fail because of our multi-ethnicity and multi-religious background.

“Living harmoniously is part of Malaysia’s pride. If such a thing happens (Johor secedes), even Sabah and Sarawak might want to follow Johor’s footsteps,” he was quoted as saying in the English daily's report.

It was reported on Friday that during an interview with sports website FourthOfficial.com, Tunku Ismail said his views might be seen as instigating state-based sentiments, but his main concern was the people of Johor.

“I am going to be the future sultan of this state and my main responsibility is towards the people of Johor. Malaysia is important to me, but Johor and JDT will always come first,” he was quoted as saying.

“People deserve to know, that the mess we have in the country right now, should in no way be associated with the Johor royal family. Over the years, we’ve always been strong and independent as well as resourceful. In fact, we only joined the Federation of Malaya, upon both parties agreeing to several basic terms.

“And if any of those terms are breached, we have every right to secede from this country. You can accuse me of instigating state-based sentiments, but to me, I’m merely doing my duty to the people of Johor, and reminding them of the history and heritage behind this great land.”

In June, Tunku Ismail’s younger brother Tunku Idris Sultan Ibrahim created a stir after he posted a warning that Johor may secede from Malaysia on his Instagram account. The posting has since been deleted. – October 18, 2015.

Johor crown prince Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim has warned that the state has every right to secede from the country if any of the terms in the agreement between Johor and the Federation of Malaya are breached.

In an interview with sports website FourthOfficial.com, the crown prince said that his views might be seen as instigating state-based sentiments, but his main concern was the people of Johor.

"I am going to be the future Sultan of this state and my main responsibility is towards the people of Johor. Malaysia is important to me, but Johor and JDT will always come first," he was quoted as saying.

"People deserve to know, that the mess we have in the country right now, should in no way be associated to the Johor royal family. Over the years, we’ve always been strong and independent as well as resourceful. In fact, we only joined the Federation of Malaya, upon both parties agreeing to several basic terms.

"And if any of those terms are breached, we have every right to secede from this country. You can accuse me of instigating state-based sentiments, but to me, I’m merely doing my duty to the people of Johor, and reminding them of the history and heritage behind this great land."

In June, Tunku Ismail's younger brother Tunku Idris Sultan Ibrahim created a stir after he posted a warning that Johor may secede from Malaysia, on his Instagram account.

In the posting which has since been deleted, the prince said the state joined the Federation in 1946 on a few conditions, including making Islam the religion of the state, Johor's absolute right over its water and land, and the state royalty would be allowed to have its own armed forces.

Tunku Ismail is no stranger to bluntness, having been critical of Putrajaya, along with his father the Johor sultan who recently urged the government to solve the country's economic woes and the declining value of the ringgit.

Several months ago, Tunku Ismail got into a spat with Tourism and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz over his criticism of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's non-appearance at the Nothing2Hide forum.

He had also admonished Umno supreme council member Datuk Mohd Puad Zarkashi for saying relations between the prime minister and the Johor palace were good. Tunku Ismail said Puad should not make statements without knowing what took place.

In the interview with FourthOfficial.com, where Tunku Ismail had mostly talked about football, the Johor team Southern Tigers and his plans for the sport, the crown prince listed his father and former Cuban president Fidel Castro as his idols.

"He may be a communist, but I respect the fact that he stood for the principles he believed in," the crown prince said, referring to Castro. – October 16, 2015.

Sabahans think that she should remain in the UK and highlight the plight of Sabah and Sarawak in the Federation with the peninsula.

KOTA KINABALU: The legal fraternity in Sabah are unanimous that local freedom fighter Doris Jones @ Doris Yapp Kim Yuon who heads the UK-based Sabah Sarawak Union-United Kingdom (SSU-UK), an NGO behind the Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia (SSKM) Facebook page, cannot be deprived of her citizenship.

“Canceling Jones’s passport only restricts her ability to travel and does not strip her of Malaysian citizenship,” said lawyer Tengku Fuad Ahmad who represents four SSKM volunteers facing sedition charges in Sabah.

Sabahans in general think that she should remain in the UK and continue to highlight the plight of Sabah and Sarawak in the Federation with the peninsula. “I don’t see what useful purpose can be served by her returning and ending up behind bars,” said Daniel John Jambun, the President of the UK-based Borneo’s Plight in Malaysia Foundation (Bopim).

Former Sabah Chief Minister Yong Teck Lee, like other lawyers, echoed Fuad’s stand. “The Malaysian Government cannot deny a citizen the right to return to the country,” he added. “The government cannot deny a citizen the right to his or her passport.”

“Whether the passport holder might be arrested or detained for investigation upon returning to Malaysia is a different matter. A citizen has the right to a passport.”

Yong, who is also Sabah Progressive Party (Sapp) president, said that by denying Jones her passport, the government only looks ridiculous. “It’s a denial of her human rights.”

The former chief minister has been left wondering why the government does not want to give Jones her passport if they wanted her to return, be arrested and face charges for seeking the exit of Sabah and Sarawak from the Federation with the peninsula. “In any case, we can assume that Jones wants to return home to visit her ageing parents and tend to them in their last days.”

Yong believes that Jones has permanent residence in the UK, having been married before to a British citizen, but if she’s not allowed by Putrajaya to return home, “she will become the first Sabahan forced into exile.”

Fuad fears for Jones and thinks that it is better for her to remain in the UK. “The sedition charge against her and the act of canceling her passport, to me, is evidence of persecution, which could assist her in the event that she decides to seek asylum in the UK.”

Fuad warned that if Jones insisted on returning, she will have to contend with a regime that is strongly-motivated against her. “The authorities are determined to prosecute and convict her.”


Dapatkah anda melihat dengan jelas bagaimana umno yang berkuasa di negara Sabah cuba untuk mengawal kebangkitan Nasionalisme? Menghalang untuk mengkibarkan bendera Negara Sabah yang dikibarkan secara rasmi pada 31 Ogos 1963 merupakan satu perbuatan yang cuba menghalang Generasi Muda Negara Sabah daripada mengenali dan mempelajari sejarah negara Sabah. Ini adalah satu perbuatan yang selalunya dilakukan oleh penjajah. Dalam konteks mesej ini, ia merujuk kepada kerajaan malaya yang berkuasa di negara Sabah melalui umno-bn!

Atas sebab itulah mengapa rakyat bangsa negara Sabah mesti menghalau keluar parti-parti malaya kerana dengan adanya mereka disini, mereka akan terus mengganggu dan campur tangan dalam hal-ehwal bangsa negara Sabah.

Sekarang anda faham sudah?

KOTA KINABALU, 2 october 2015: The High Court will on Nov 11 deliver its decision on the application by four Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia (SKMM) activists to have their case of having materials calling for Sabah and Sarawak to secede from Malaysia transferred from the Sessions Court to the High Court.

In their application, Azrie Situ, 24, Jemmy Liku, Markus Situ, 32, Erick Jack William, 29, and Joseph Koilis, 29, raised that legal arguments which are going to be raised in their defence are complex in nature and that such complex legal arguments are matters best heard and determined by the High Court.

Their counsel Tengku Ahmad Fuad, who appeared together with counsel Arthur Chin, also told Judge Datuk Nurchaya Arshad that they were challenging the definition of 'seditious tendency'.

The four had, on March 16 this year, pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court to having pamphlets with seditious content at 9.50am on Feb 1, this year at the weekly Tamu in Tuaran.

Erick is accused of having 91 pieces of the seditious pamphlets, Joseph 13, Azrie five and Jemmy one.

The offence, under Section 4(2) of the Sedition Act, carries a fine of up to RM2,000 or a jail term of up to 18 months, or both, on conviction with the offending publications to be seized and destroyed.

The trial of the activists has been put off in the Sessions Court pending the outcome of their application in the High Court.

In Thursday's proceeding Tengku Ahmad argued that speaking up about Sabah's rights within Malaysia can never be seditious.

"(And) we are challenging the definition of 'seditious tendency'.

"What we are saying is that if you questioned Sabahan's rights openly...that category of speech is incapable of criminalisation under the Sedition Act," said Tengku Ahmad.

The court also ordered the prosecution to give the defence the list of words claimed to be seditious in the document by Oct 7 and ordered both applicants and the prosecution to tender their respective submission on Oct 21.

Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Azreezi Nordin appeared for the prosecution.

Source: Daily Express

KOTA KINABALU, 2 Oktober 2015: Mahkamah Tinggi akan menyampaikan keputusannya pada 11 November mengenai permohonan oleh empat aktivis Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia (SKMM) agar kes mereka kerana memiliki material yang menggesa Sabah dan Sarawak keluar daripada Malaysia dipindahkan dari Mahkamah Seksyen kepada Mahkamah Tinggi.

Dalam permohonan mereka, Azrie Situ 24,Jemmy Liku Markus Situ 32, Erick Jack William 29, dan Joseph Koilis 29, membangkitkan bahawa penghujahan perundangan yang akan dibangkitkan dalam pembelaan mereka adalah rumit dan penghujahan perundangan yang kompleks rumit adalah perkara yang paling sesuai didengar dan ditentukan oleh Mahkamah Tinggi.

Peguam mereka Tengku Ahmad Fuad, yang tampil bersama peguam Arthur Chin juga memberitahu Hakim Datuk Nurchaya Hj Arshad bahawa mereka mencabar definisi 'kecenderungan menghasut'.

Empat orang itu pada 16 Mac tahun ini mengaku tidak bersalah di Mahkamah Sesyen kerana memiliki risalah yang mengandungi unsur hasutan pada 9.50 pagi 1 Februari tahun ini di Tamu mingguan di Tuaran.

Erick dituduh memiliki 91 keping risalah berbaur hasutan, Joseph 13, Azrie lima dan Jemmy satu.

Kesalahan, di bawah Seksyen 4(2) Akta Hasutan, membawa hukuman denda sehingga RM 2,000 atau penjara sehingga 18 bulan, atau kedua-duanya, jika sabit kesalahan dengan penerbitan yang menghasut akan dirampas dan dimusnahkan.

Perbicaraan aktivis-aktivis itu di Mahkamah Sesyen ditangguhkan sementara menunggu hasil permohonan mereka di Mahkamah Tinggi.

Dalam prosidang Khamis, Tengku Ahmad menghujahkan bahawa bersuara tentang hak-hak Sabah di dalam Malaysia tidak boleh dianggap menghasut.

"(Dan) kami mahu mencabar definisi 'kecenderungan menghasut'.

"Apa yang kami katakan ialah jika kamu mempersoalkan hak-hak Sabah secara terbuka... kategori bersuara itu tidak membawa kepada jenayah di bawah Akta Hasutan," kata Tengku Ahmad.

Mahkamah juga memerintahkan pendakwaan memberikan pembelaan senarai perkataan-perkataan yang didakwa sebagai menghasut dalam dokumen itu pada 7 Oktober dan memerintahkan kedua-dua pemohon dan pendakwaan agar mengemukakan penghujahan masing-masing pada 21 Oktober.

Timbalan Pendakwa Rava (Dpp) Azreezi Nordin tampil untuk pendakwaan.

Source: Daily Express

KOTA KINABALU, Oct 2 — The alleged refusal of Malaysian authorities to renew Sabah secessionist Doris Jones’ passport is a blatant abuse of power and a violation of her constitutional right to citizenship, lawyers here said.

When contacted, the lawyers said the authorities cannot block the UK-based Jones from getting her Malaysian passport because she is wanted for arrest here as the country’s legal system regards every individual as innocent until proven guilty.

“Authorities have no power to arbitrarily deny Jones her passport simply because she faces charges,” said civil liberties lawyer Tengku Fuad Ahmad.

He added that there are more serious reasons for the Malaysian authorities to deny individuals their access to passports, like if the applicant is deemed a threat to national security or a terrorist under the The Security Offences (Special Measures) Act.

“Even if she was convicted, passports are usually only denied on grounds of security,” he said when contacted by Malay Mail Online.

In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Jones said she received a notification from the Malaysian High Commission in London to collect her passport which she had applied for, only to be told by Immigration attaché Azhar Abdul Hamid later that her pending application has been refused.

She was also told that there was a pending status attached to her passport, under her registered name Doris Yapp Kim Youn, and that she could “try returning later”.

According to Tengku Fuad, without her passport and the fact that she faces arrest upon her return to Malaysia, the best thing for Jones to do now is to seek asylum in the United Kingdom.

“In these circumstances, it is clear that Doris will, if she returns, have to contend with a system that is strongly motivated against her — the authorities are determined to prosecute and convict her,” he said.

The lawyer, who is also the counsel for the four Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia volunteers who were recently charged for sedition, explained, however, that cancelling Jones’s passport only restricts her ability to travel but does not strip her of her Malaysian citizenship.

“The sedition charge and the act of cancelling her passport is to me, evidence of persecution, which could assist Doris Jones in the event that she decides to seek asylum in the UK.

“At this stage, seeking asylum seems the safest course of action for her,” he said, adding that human rights laws in the UK would be favourable to her.

Former chief minister and lawyer Datuk Yong Teck Lee also agreed said that Malaysian authorities cannot deny a citizen the right to his or her passport, nor prevent them from returning to their home country.

“Whether the passport holder might be arrested or detained for investigation upon return to Malaysia or not is another matter. But the citizen has a right to a passport.

“Denying her her passport only makes the Malaysian government look ridiculous. It is denial of her human rights to return to Malaysia,” he said, referring to the International Criminal Police Organisation.

The Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) president said the Malaysian authorities should allow Jones to renew her passport if they wanted her to return to be arrested.

“It would be safe to assume Jones will be making a trip home eventually to tend to her elderly parents,” he said.

He also said Jones will likely be able to get a permanent residency in the UK due to her past marriage to a British citizen but she will become the first Sabahan being forced into exile by Putrajaya and not allowed home to Sabah.

PKR vice president Darell Leiking also said that Jones should not be deprived of her constitutional right to a passport when she has not been charged for a crime.

“She is, as far as the law is concerned, still innocent until proven guilty. Besides, any attempts by the authorities to secure her arrest should be by proper legal procedure in which the Malaysian police can enforce such arrest warrant by applying with the UK authorities,” he said.

“Until then, her right to a passport renewal is an inherent and constitutional right of a citizen of the federation and is separate from the warrant of arrest. She can take court action to affirm her right of renewal of the passport,” he said.

Jones shot into the spotlight about a year ago after a Facebook page she ran called “Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia” surfaced, criticising government policies and promoting Sabah’s secession.

In February, Sabah police commissioner Datuk Jalaluddin Abdul Rahman announced a warrant of arrest for Jones under her registered name Doris Yapp Kim Young, 45, for sedition.

He also said that local police would seek Interpol’s help to find Jones in the UK but British law does not recognise the crime for which she is wanted in Malaysia, and Malaysians police have conceded they are not able to extradite Jones and can only act against her when she returns to the country.

Jones has repeatedly denied being contacted by Malaysian authorities or Interpol in the UK. 

She remarks however that it is strange the Malaysian government is not willing to put down the charges against her in writing.

KUALA LUMPUR: Sabahan freedom fighter Doris Jones @ Doris Yapp Kim Yuon who heads the UK-based Sabah Sarawak Union-United Kingdom (SSU-UK), an NGO behind the Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia Facebook page, wants to bring to public attention that if the Malaysian Government wants to level accusations against her, it should do so officially and in writing. “It’s strange that we have a government which doesn’t hesitate to accuse one of all sorts of things in public but was not willing to put them down in writing.”

If there are charges, she added, it must be conveyed to the one accused in writing. “If there are charges, what’s the reason not to notify in writing? So, how can I respond? I would like to return home and face the charges.”

“When I turned up at the Malaysian High Commission in London on September 30 with Sarawakian and SSU-UK founder member Zurainee Tehek as a witness to collect the extension of my passport, an official Azhar Bin Abd Hamid gave all sorts of reasons why they couldn’t let me have my passport,” said Jones in a statement in Bahasa which is making the rounds in WhatsApp and social media. “The official was also not willing to let me have in black and white the complaints that the Malaysian government have against me.”

“I wrote down the complaints myself on an A4 white sheet of paper with a pen, both obtained from Azhar, and asked him to sign it. He refused to do so.”

Jones said that when she asked Azhar whether the Malaysian government refused to extend her passport, he denied it but at the same time added: “It’s not that the government doesn’t want to extend your passport. The government rejected extending it.”

Jones said that when she heard Azhar’s reply, she recalled Ahmad Maslan, Salleh Said Keruak and other Ministers back home who invariably never failed to give similarly “stupid answers” when asked something quite straight forward. “Why does the government keep officers who give such stupid answers when queried by the public? Azhar also initially refused to return my old passport on the grounds that it belongs to the Malaysian government.”

Briefly, Jones said that Azhar told her the Malaysian government had directed him to delay extending her passport, that there was an arrest warrant issued by the police and pending against her, and that she was facing charges of opposing the Malaysian government through the struggle to bring Sabah and Sarawak out of the Federation. “I have been interviewed by UK government officials on the matter of the High Commission not being able to extend my passport.”

“The National Liberal Party (NLP) President Graham Williamson has also issued a statement on the matter. Williamson heads the Nations Without States of which SSU-UK is a member.”

In the rest of her statement, Jones charged that the people of Sabah and Sarawak had been taken for a ride since 1963 by the Malayan government masquerading as the Malaysian government and that Malaysia the Federation was nothing more than Malaya the peninsula. “We in Sabah and Sarawak have nothing in common with Malaya. We are so different from them.”

She demanded that Malayan political parties in Sabah and Sarawak leave the two Borneo nations as they had the insidious motive of changing the character of the two Borneo nations.

She pledged that she would work through the United Nations and the international community to free Sabah and Sarawak from the clutches of Malaya.

KOTA KINABALU: The Home Ministry is not renewing the passport of London-based Sabahan activist Doris Jones (pic).

In a Sept 30 Facebook posting, Jones stated that she had been told by an Immigration Department officer at the Malaysian Embassy in London, Azhar Abdul Hamid that her application has been classified as “pending.”

Doris, who has been operating the Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia Facebook page from London said Azhar told her the department’s headquarters in Putrajaya had ordered that status for her passport renewal application.

“Azhar mentioned to me that they were not rejecting the application but refusing to renew it,” Jones said in her Facebook page.

In another posting on the same day, Jones said she was aware that the refusal to renew her passport was due to a warrant for her arrest issued by the police here.

“I did admit I want to go home to face the warrant but since they cannot renew my passport they can bring the warrant here to the UK if the Malaysian government tells the truth,” Jones said.

She said she would remain in the UK “indefinitely.”

The police had issued warrant of arrest for Jones, whom they had identified as Yapp Kim Youn, for sedition.

The police however acknowledged that Malaysian authorities would not be not be able to extradite Doris as British laws do not recognise her crimes under the Sedition Act.

Meanwhile, Insp. Mohd Shahrizan Yahaya said they can only arrest Jones if she returned to this country.

He also explained that the Interpol was ready to arrest Jones if she was involved in other crimes except for the Sedition Act, as it has been abolished in Britain.

Source: The Star

Salam sejahtera, Salam Hormat dan Salam Perjuangan Kemerdekaan Negara Sabah dan Negara Sarawak. Saya Doris Jones mewakili sebuah kumpulan sosial didalam Facebook yang bernama Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia (SSKM) yang kini sudah berdaftar secara SAH dibawah bidang Kuasa Perundangan United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) dengan nama kumpulan NGO Sabah Sarawak Union-United Kingdom (SSU-UK) ingin membuat kenyataan rasmi berhubung dengan "Kengganan Pegawai Imigresen Malaysia di UK Untuk Menyambung Tempoh Passport Antarabangsa Saya".

Pada 30 September 2015, saya bersama dengan seorang rakan yang bernama Zurainee Tehek yang merupakan rakyat Negara Sarawak dan juga salah seorang pengasas SSU-UK, telah menemani untuk pergi ke Pejabat Imigresen Malaysia di London bagi menyambung Tempoh Passport Antarabangsa. Seperti biasa, pendaftaran dilakukan, pembayaran dibuat dan reset diberikan sebagai bukti pembayaran. Selepas itu, kami telah diminta untuk datang pada waktu petang untuk mengambil passport tersebut.  

Kemudian, pada waktu petang, kami telah datang semula dan menunggu untuk mendapatkan passport. Kerani yang bertugas menampakkan keresahan dan jelas kelihatan pada raut wajahnya. Berkali-kali masuk keluar bilik dan berulang kali bertanya kepada saya untuk memastikan bahawa saya adalah "Doris" dan pengesahan itu saya lakukan. Akhirnya, saya telah diminta untuk masuk kedalam sebuah bilik khas tetapi saya telah meminta kebenaran untuk membawa rakan seperjuangan saya untuk masuk sekali bagi menemani saya.

Seorang Pegawai Kerajaan Malaysia yang bernama Azhar Bin Abd Hamid adalah orang yang berada didalam bilik tersebut.

Penjelasan yang diberikan oleh Pegawai tersebut ialah mereka tidak boleh menyambung tempoh passport antarabangsa saya sambil memegangnya dengan beberapa alasan. Antaranya ialah;
  1. Pihak Kerajaan Malaysia di Putrajaya telah meminta pegawai tersebut untuk menangguh menyambung tempoh passport antarabangsa saya.
  2. Terdapat kes waran yang telah dikeluarkan keatas saya oleh Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM). 
  3. Saya telah didakwa atas sebab menentang Kerajaan Malaysia melalui Perjuangan untuk membawa Sabah dan Sarawak berpisah daripada Malaysia.
Saya telah meminta Pegawai tersebut untuk memberikan saya surat penyataan (notification letter) yang jelas menyatakan dakwaan tersebut keatas diri saya namun pegawai tersebut enggan melakukannya.

Maka, saya telah meminta sekeping kertas putih A4 dan sebatang pen lalu menulis maklumat-maklumat yang telah diberikan oleh pegawai tersebut tentang dakwaan Kerajaan Malaysia keatas saya dan meminta pegawai tersebut untuk menurunkan tandatangan bagi mengesahkannya. Namun, pegawai tersebut itu juga tidak mahu mengesahkannya.

Saya berasa pelik dengan sistem pentadbiran Kerajaan Malaysia. Dakwaan telah dibuat, namun tidak ada surat dikeluarkan. Jadi, bagaimana sesuatu dakwaan tersebut dapat disahkan oleh saya?

Apabila saya bertanya, adakah ini bermaksud Kerajaan Malaysia tidak mahu menyambung tempoh passport antarabangsa saya? Pegawai tersebut memberikan jawapan seperti ini; "bukan Kerajaan tidak mahu menyambung passport antarabangsa anda tetapi mereka menolak untuk menyambungnya". Jawapan yang diberikan ini membuatkan saya teringat beberapa menteri yang ada di Malaysia seperti Ahmad Maslan dan Salleh Said Keruak. Mengapa jawapan sebodoh seperti ini diberikan oleh pegawai Kerajaan? 

Selain itu, tujuan saya untuk menyambung passport antarabangsa saya adalah kerana saya ingin kembali ke Tanah Air saya di Negara Sabah untuk menghadap tuduhan dan dakwaan liar Kerajaan Malaysia bagi membuktikan diri saya ini tidak bersalah. Tetapi bagaimana ini semua dapat dilakukan jikalau Kerajaan Malaysia sendiri yang menghalang saya berbuat demikian?

Dimanakah ketulusan terhadap dakwaan tersebut? Membuang batu ketempat saya tetapi menyembunyikan tangan?

Setelah saya dengan rakan seperjuangan berdebat dengan pegawai tersebut dalam satu tempoh masa, akhirnya kami memutuskan untuk beredar. Sebelum beredar, saya meminta passport antarabangsa saya dikembalikan tetapi pegawai tersebut enggan untuk memberikannya kepada saya.

Alasan yang diberikan ialah passport tersebut adalah hak milik Kerajaan Malaysia. Lalu saya menjawab, menurut undang-undang, Kerajaan tidak berhak memegang passport antarabangsa seseorang selagi empunya passport tersebut belum tamat tempoh atau belum dibuktikan bersalah oleh Makhamah. Saya telah membuat pendaftaran, pembayaran dan reset telah diberikan kepada saya sebagai bukti bahawa saya telah mengikut proses bagi menyambung tempoh passport antarabangsa saya. Jadi, saya berhak untuk mendapatkan semula passport saya dengan serta-merta kerana tempoh masanya belum lagi tamat.

Apa yang dilakukan oleh pegawai tersebut ialah dia telah meminta kerani untuk memulangkan duit pendaftaran tersebut dan meminta reset pembayaran itu diberikan kepadanya semula dan menyerahkan passport antarabangsa itu kepada saya. Rakan saya, Zurainee Tehek telah bertanya kepada pegawai tersebut. Jikalau reset pembayaran dipulangkan kepadanya, bagaimana kami ingin membuktikan bahawa kami telah datang ke Pejabat Imigresen Malaysia di UK ini dan pendaftaran telah ditolak? Setelah berdebat lagi, akhirnya pegawai tersebut bersetuju untuk memberikan kadnya (Business Card) dan membenarkan kami mengambil beberapa gambar sebagai bukti yang kami berada disini.

Selepas kami keluar daripada bangunan Imigresen Malaysia, kami telah dihubungi oleh Pn.Clare RewCastle Brown untuk beliau membuat liputan berita di website Sarawak Report. En.Graham Williamson yang merupakan Presiden National Liberal Party (NLP) UK dan Pengerusi Nations without States (NwS) telah memberikan kecaman terhadap perbuatan Kerajaan Malaysia yang jelas menunjukkan bahawa Kerajaan Malaysia tidak mampu untuk menerima kritikan. Hanya orang yang tunduk kepada penganiayaan sahaja yang diberikan keistimewaan untuk terus menjadi rakyat Malaysia.

Saya telah didatangi oleh Pegawai Kerajaan UK dan mereka telah mengambil segala keterangan saya untuk simpanan rekod dan tindakan susulan bagi membantu saya berhadapan dengan keadaan ini.

Disini, ingin saya sampaikan mesej kepada rakyat Negara Sabah dan Negara Sarawak. Saya tidak takut untuk berhadapan dengan apa sahaja demi perjuangan bagi Bangsa Negara Sabah dan Bangsa Negara Sarawak. Perjuangan ini adalah berada dilandasan yang betul. Bukti jelas memihak kepada Perjuangan ini. Kita mempunyai hak untuk berdiri diatas kaki sendiri. Kita mempunyai Hak untuk mencapai Kemerdekaan sendiri seperti mana yang telah dikecapi oleh Negara Singapura. Negara Sabah dan Negara Sarawak adalah berbeza daripada Malaya. Kita berbeza daripada aspek budaya, bangsa, bahasa, sosioekonomi, geopolitik dan macam-macam lagi. Kita ditipu hidup-hidup selama ini yang kononnya kita membentuk sebuah negara baru, persekutuan baru tetapi rupa-rupanya itu semua tidak benar. Malaysia yang wujud pada hari ini sebenarnya adalah "Persekutuan Tanah Melayu" dengan versi nama baru sebagai "Malaysia". Ini jelas dapat dibuktikan melalui pendaftaran keahlian mereka di United Nations (UN).

Bukan saya yang takut untuk berhadapan dengan pihak Kerajaan Malaysia tetapi saya dihalang untuk menghadap dakwaan tersebut. Bukan saya takut untuk kembali ke Tanah Air tetapi saya mempunyai peranan untuk menyebarkan kebenaran dan mendapatkan sokongan di peringkat antarabangsa bagi menyelamatkan masa depan bangsa negara Sabah dan bangsa negara Sarawak. 

Pihak antarabangsa berasa hairan tentang hal ini. Mereka bertanya, mengapa selama ini perkara ini tidak didedahkan kepada United Nations (UN)? Maka saya menjawab, kerana selama ini wakil UN Malaysia dipegang oleh orang malaya. Maka hal ini disembunyikan daripada masyarakat antarabangsa.

Oleh itu, perjuangan ini akan dirancakkan lagi demi Kepentingan Bangsa Negara Sabah dan Bangsa Negara Sarawak. Dari segi perjuangan politik, sila berikan sokongan penuh kepada Parti-Parti Tempatan di Negara Sabah dan Negara Sarawak yang Pro Sabahan dan Pro Sarawakian kerana ideologi politik yang dibawakan oleh mereka adalah mewakili ideologi politik Borneo yang berbeza daripada ideologi politik malaya. Itu juga adalah mewakili ciri-ciri individualiti Kerajaan Negara Sabah dan Kerajaan Negara Sarawak. 

Jikalau anda membiarkan parti-parti malaya memegang kerajaan Negara Sabah dan Negara Sarawak, anda secara langsung membenarkan ciri-ciri individualiti Negara Sabah dan Negara Sarawak dihapuskan dan diselaraskan, disamakan dengan ciri-ciri individualiti malaya yang memfokuskan kepada ketuanan malaya. Maka dengan itu, katakan TIDAK KEPADA PARTI-PARTI MALAYA! HALAU PARTI-PARTI MALAYA DARIPADA NEGARA SABAH DAN NEGARA SARAWAK! BIAR PARTI-PARTI TEMPATAN YANG PRO SABAHAN DAN PRO SARAWAKIAN MEMERINTAH NEGARA SABAH DAN NEGARA SARAWAK!

Jangan benarkan lagi Bangsa Borneo daripada Negara Sabah dan Negara Sarawak bertuankan kepada kepimpinan malaya yang rasis, tamak dan pengkhianat kepada kepercayaan yang telah diberikan selama ini.

Sedarlah akan perkara ini. Kebangkitan Nasionalisme ini mesti disokong demi masa depan yang cerah dan sejahtera untuk Negara Sabah dan Negara Sarawak selamanya.

Sabah born Malaysian national Doris Jones has been left stranded in the UK without a passport and effectively stateless, owing to the latest abuse of legal rights by her government.

Doris, who has been working for several years in the UK, had applied for a renewal for her passport, which expires in a few days.

According to normal procedure she was invited up to London yesterday to pick the new one up.

However, she then met an obstacle, as she told Sarawak Report.  High Commission officials simply refused to issue her with the document as promised.

“In the end they said I could try coming back” Doris told Sarawak Report, “but I am not sure I want to risk going there again under the circumstances”.

‘Arrest warrant’ propaganda against Doris!
These circumstances are that Doris has provoked yet another of the new Home Minister’s high handed “terrorism” charges by openly voicing her concerns about the abuse of Sabah’s constitutional rights by the present government.

In Doris’s view (and she is not alone by a very long way) the commitments made to the Borneo states at the time of merger and independence have not been adhered to by the Federal Government.

Doris has therefore dared to openly say (on Facebook) that she thinks that Sabah has a valid right to declare the agreement voided as a result of these violations and to consider its case for independence.

Banished and charged!

To even dare to write such a thing to friends on Facebook has caused a sensational reaction on the part of the Malaysian authorities and their barking Home Minister, who today announced that “noisy minorities” will “end up in Hell” (clearly forgetting that it was his own party which won the minority of votes at the last election and only took power through gerrymandering seats).


So the full force of Malaysia’s new laws to shut up critics (under the guise of calling them terrorists) have been marshalled against this single, middle aged professional lady, who has a circle of Facebook friends to whom she uttered these remarks.

Doris had received the normal invitation to collect her new passport – but when she arrived at the London High Commission it was denied!
Doris has had a warrant for her arrest issued in January by the Malaysian authorities on grounds of so-called ‘sedition’ and the police have even attempted to get her extradited from the UK on these grounds – something they have now conceded to be a hopeless case.

The full force of the authorities turned out to denounce Doris
Her situation starkly resembles that of several others who have dared to speak out against a regime that is rapidly evolving into a criminal entity and ceasing to observe the rule of law.

The writer of this blog has been subjected to identical threats, for example, and the anti-corruption campaigner Khairuddin Abu Hassan was last week thrown back into jail, after original charges against him were rejected by the courts, under the new “anti-terrorism” legislation that allows for indefinite detention without trial.

His offence?  – reporting criminal corruption in the state-owned 1MDB development fund to international regulators, which ministers have chosen to describe as “state sabotage”.

This government has relieved itself of the burden of having to provide the slightest evidence or proof for such charges under their new “terrorism” laws, supposedly introduced to get bombers and mad extremists off the streets.

Definition of a dictatorship by Najib

Khairuddin fell seriously ill in jail and is now in hospital and not allowed visitors
Meanwhile, in the US, Malaysia’s Prime Minister, who has presided over all this outrage, has been causing sniggers all week, by declaring at staged PR events that his country is “a mature democracy”.

People are readier to believe his other claim that he plans that nothing will budge him from his position at the head of government.

Najib’s US listeners know only too well that mature democracies allow for opposition, protest and dissent.

Mature democracies allow for and expect to see regular changes of government.

And, crucially, in mature democracies the rule of law cannot be circumvented by the commands of the boss man Najib.

It is no longer any kind of secret that Najib has driven what was a relatively promising candidate for democracy into the ditch by his destruction of the rule of law in Malaysia, in order to save his own political position.

He has removed all checks and balances (and a large chunk his cabinet) assuming dictatorial power.

Kidding no one – Najib Razak has joined the dirty dictator list and dragged Malaysia with him.
It was duly noted how on arriving in the UK this ‘democratic leader’ arranged for a 40 limo entourage to accompany him and his wife from their state funded jumbo jet at Farnborough airport up to London.

It was also noted how, on their departure, the same plane was loaded to groaning point with boxes of new purchases and acquisitions.

And the growing list of critics being charged and incarcerated on trumped up pretences without trial back home is yet another signal for all to see.

The world knows a dictator when they see one.

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