SOUTH Australian Senator Nick Xenophon, "I am effectively a prisoner here,"

SOUTH Australian Senator Nick Xenophon, "I am effectively a prisoner here,"

Senator Nick Xenophon

SOUTH Australian Senator Nick Xenophon snacked on McDonald's and table crackers as he awaited deportation from Malaysia for being a threat to national security.

Senator Australia Utara   Nick Xenophon mengudap McDonald dan kerupuk di meja saat ia menunggu deportasi dari Malaysia karena  ancaman bagi keamanan nasional.
Nick Xenophon di Malaysia
Senator Independen dijadwalkan tiba di Melbourne di pagi hari setelah ia memicu insiden diplomatik ketika ia ditahan di bandara Kuala Lumpur selama bisnis parlemen tidak resmi.
Senator independen segera dihentikan pada saat kedatangan di Malaysia, ditahan selama 16 jam dan  didakwa di  bawah detail keamanan.
Dia dijadwalkan untuk naik  Air Asia penerbangan pada malam.
"Ini benar-benar menggelikan - saya dijadwalkan untuk melakukan pertemuan dengan Menteri senior Pemerintah ," kata Senator Xenophon dari ruang interogasi di mana ia ditahan.
"Orang-orang menahan saya telah sopan tapi mereka bilang perintah untuk mendapatkan saya keluar dari negara itu segera datang dari` Pejabat '.
"Mereka bilang saya dideportasi sesuai dengan Bagian 81 dari Undang-Undang Imigrasi, yang mengatakan saya mengancam keamanan negara"
"..Ini seharusnya menjadi kunjungan rendah oleh anggota partai-partai besar tetapi sekarang telah diledakkan menjadi insiden internasional Ia menegaskan semua kekhawatiran yang telah diajukan mengenai orang-orang yang menentang segala jenis reformasi pemilu.."
Penahanannya memicu insiden diplomatik, dengan Menteri Luar Negeri Bob Carr menuntut pembebasannya segera.
"Kami sedang mencari penjelasan lengkap tentang ini," katanya. "Kami pikir itu menyedihkan bagi sebuah negara yang ramah untuk mendeportasi seorang anggota Parlemen Australia, yang di sana untuk tujuan damai.".
Keprihatinan Australia segera dibesarkan dengan Menteri Luar Negeri Malaysia, Menteri Dalam Negeri dan Komisaris Tinggi Malaysia ke Australia.
Austalian Komisaris Tinggi Miles Kupa diizinkan untuk melihat Senator Xenophon kemarin malam - membawa dia makan takaway untuk melengkapi biskuit yang dia makan - dan ia telah dipindahkan dari ruang interogasi sel penjara sebelah perempuan ke area kantor sebelum dibawa ke ruang tunggu bandara .
Senator Xenophon co - menulis laporan sebuah kelompok pengamat internasional 'dirilis tahun lalu pada sistem pemilu Malaysia yang kritis gerrymanders dan yang menyerukan reformasi pemilu yang signifikan.
Pendeportasiannya menyebabkan delegasi Australia anggota parlemen untuk membatalkan rencana kunjungan mereka ke negara itu.

Liberal MP Mal Washer, Nationals Senator John Williams dan ALP MP Steve Georganas untuk bergabung Senator Xenophon untuk memenuhi Pemimpin Oposisi Anwar Ibrahim, serta  menteri Malaysia yang bertanggung jawab atas urusan parlemen Mohammed Nazri menjelang pemilu Malaysia.
Senator Xenophon bergabung dengan antrian Pabean pada saat kedatangan di Kuala Lumpur tetapi diberitahu ada "penyimpangan" dengan paspor dan dibawa ke ruang interogasi.
Dia mengatakan dia tidak diperbolehkan untuk membuat panggilan tetapi berhasil membuat panggilan ke Mail hari Minggu ketika ia sebentar ditinggalkan dan mengirim foto dari dirinya sendiri.
"Saya efektif seorang tahanan di sini," katanya. "Seluruh situasi konyol, kita dimaksudkan untuk menjadi yang paling dekat dari teman-teman dengan Malaysia Kami dimaksudkan untuk memiliki kesepakatan orang-swap pada pencari suaka tapi sejauh terlihat seperti satu-satunya orang yang bertukar adalah saya.."
Senator Xenophon, yang membayar untuk perjalanan sendiri, telah merencanakan untuk tinggal di Malaysia sampai Selasa malam.

Senator Nick Xenophon
The Independent Senator is due to arrive in Melbourne in the morning after he sparked a diplomatic incident when he was detained at Kuala Lumpur airport during unofficial parliamentary business.

The independent Senator was stopped immediately on arrival in Malaysia, held in custody for 16 hours and put under security detail.

He was scheduled to board an Air Asia flight tonight.

"It is absolutely laughable - I was due to have a meeting with a senior Government Minister among others," Senator Xenophon said from an interrogation room where he was being held.

"The people detaining me have been polite but they told me the orders to get me out of the country immediately came from `high up'.

"They told me I am being deported under Section 81 of the Immigration Act, which says I pose a threat to the security of the country

"This was supposed to be a low-key visit by members of the major parties but now it has blown up into an international incident. It confirms all the concerns that have been raised about people being opposed to any kind of electoral reform."

His detainment triggered a diplomatic incident, with Foreign Minister Bob Carr demanding his immediate release.

"We are seeking a full explanation of this," he said. "We think it is sad for a friendly country to deport an Australian member of Parliament, who was up there for peaceful purposes.".

Australia's concerns were immediately raised with Malaysia's Foreign Minister, the Minister for Home Affairs and the Malaysian High Commissioner to Australia.

Austalian High Commissioner Miles Kupa was allowed to see Senator Xenophon late yesterday - bringing him a takaway meal to supplement the biscuits he was fed - and he was moved from an interrogation room adjoining female prison cells to an office area before being taken to an airport lounge.

Senator Xenophon co-authored an international observers' group report released last year on the Malaysian electoral system that was critical of gerrymanders and that called for significant electoral reform.

His deportation caused an Australian delegation of MPs to cancel their planned visit to the country. Liberal MP Mal Washer, Nationals Senator John Williams and ALP MP Steve Georganas were to join Senator Xenophon to meet Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, as well as Malaysia's minister in charge of parliamentary affairs Mohammed Nazri ahead of Malaysia's elections.

Senator Xenophon joined the Customs queue on arrival at Kuala Lumpur but was told there were "irregularities" with his passport and was taken to an interrogation room.

He was told he was not allowed to make calls but managed to make a call to the Sunday Mail when he was briefly left unattended and send a photograph of himself.

"I am effectively a prisoner here," he said. "The whole situation is ridiculous; we are meant to be the closest of friends with Malaysia. We are meant to be having a people-swap deal on asylum seekers but so far it looks like the only person being swapped is me."

Senator Xenophon, who paid for his own trip, had planned to stay in Malaysia until Tuesday night.

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Sumber: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21483133