Cow-head protest: Only one out of six charged for sedition sentenced to jail

Man jailed a week, fined RM3000 over cow-head protest

UPDATED @ 01:01:30 PM 27-07-2010

July 27, 2010

The cowhead paraded by the protesters last year. - Picture by Choo Choy May

SHAH ALAM, July 27 — One man was jailed for a week and imposed a fine of RM3000 today for being part of last year’s racially-charged cow-head protest here. Another man was fined RM3,000 as well while four others who were also originally charged under the Sedition Act were given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal.
They were part of a group of 12 men charged for various offences in connection with the protest against the construction of a Hindu temple in their neighbourhood.
All 12 pleaded guilty at the Sessions Court here today to being part of an illegal assembly.
They were all fined RM1,000 for the illegal assembly offence.
The 12 were part of a group which brought a cow’s head to the gate of the state secretariat building on August 28 last year to protest the construction of a temple in their mainly Muslim-Malay neighbourhood.
They were protesting the relocation of a 150-year-old Sri Maha Mariamman Hindu temple from Section 19 to their neighbourhood in Section 23.
The 12 are Ahmad Mahayuddin, 36, Ibrahim Sabri, 43, Eyzva Ezhar Ramly, 31, Mohd Azmir Mohd Zain, 35, Ahmad Suhairy Zakaria, 30, Mohd Hilmi Ni, 40,Jainuddin @ Zainuddin Md Yusuff, 67, Mohd Jurit Ramli, 39, Mohamad Nordin Zakaria, 46, Jamil Mohamad Isa, 40, Rahimuddin Md Harun, 39, and Azhari Shaari, 39.

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