A public appeal to the Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohammed
Cancel all charges against Mohd Zaireen Zainal of the Malaysian Marijuana Education Movement
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Rajiv is currently the Project Coordinator at ANPUD and manages the ‘Harm Reduction Advocacy in Asia’ Project. He is globally well known for over 20 years of his extensive work and has been one of the most respected senior activists in the Asian region (from Nepal) dedicated to the equal rights and quality of life of people who use drugs and people living with HIV.
Rajiv wrote this letter by directly addressing it to the Malaysian Prime Minister in the hope that Zaireen could still be saved from becoming victim of such level of disproportionate sentencing due to the unjust and unscientific drug law of Malaysia.
Posted on Monday, 22 April 2019
A public appeal to the Hon. Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohammed
Cancel all charges against Mohd Zaireen Zainal of the Malaysian Marijuana Education Movement
22 April 2019, BANGKOK.
PM Mahathir I specially remember the compassion that you had shown towards me and extended your full support to people living with HIV 20 years ago as you presided over the closing ceremony of the KL AIDS Conference in 1999. I had no idea that I would survive this long to tell you what impression I had of Malaysian people by your show of support towards then highly stigmatized people like us with HIV who had very little hopes to live for.
However, I was shocked to soon learn that a doctor could be fined upto 2000 MYR if they don’t report to the anti-drug Police, about their encounter with every new person who show up at their doorstep inquiring about and seeking for any health service that could assist them or provide better alternatives .
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The case of Zaireen as I see it is just one of many unfortunate; legally wronged and faulty decisions taken that should be corrected sooner than later. Most importantly if the current government of one of the progressive & positively adaptive nations in the whole world wishes to see it on the right side of history then the charges against Zaireen needs to be dropped to the lowest who was just trying to help the people in need with the real and raw medicine known to him.