By Patrick Lee (FMT) KUALA LUMPUR: A PKR leader promised that if convicted Malaysian drug mule Yong Vui Kong is hanged, it will have grave repercussions. “I warn the Singaporean government: if they hang Yong, I will come back and bring a coffin here! (Singapore High Commission),” said Kapar MP S Manikavasagam. He also...
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KUALA LUMPUR: A group of Malaysian lawyers and parliamentarians has submitted a memorandum to the Singapore High Commission asking for the clemency of Malaysian citizen Yong Vui Kong, who is facing the gallows. Walter Chia, the High Commission’s first secretary, received the memo from Fadiah Nadwa Fikri of Lawyers for Liberty. Chia promised to...
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His Excellency Mr. T Jasudasen High Commissioner, High Commission of the Republic of Singapore, 209, Jalan Tun Razak 50400 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Memorandum protesting the denial of due process to Yong Vui Kong and calling for his life to be spared 1) Mr. Yong Vui Kong, a 22 years old Malaysian citizen awaits on...
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22 year old Malaysian Yong Vui Kong is facing a brutal death at the gallows of Singapore’s notorious Changi prison. He may die by this 26th August 2010, as his clemency time period expires. Yong, a Sabahan, was only 18 years old when arrested under Singapore’s harsh anti-drug laws. On 13th August 2010, the...
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Aleyasak’s counsel Fadiah Nadwa Fikri said the suit was being filed as nothing had been done since a police report was filed in 2007.
“We want the government to be responsible for the actions of the police,” she said.
“Police brutality can never have a place in Malaysia as they are supposed to protect peaceful demonstrators...
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Alan was interrogated by police 8 to 10 hours a day despite a weak heart, and now faces trials which may may send him to prison for years. He remains resolute and has said " I will not be cowed." His only crime is revealing the truth to the people of Singapore and the...
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Activists from Malaysian NGO Lawyers for Liberty have demanded that the Singaporean government abolish the death penalty and withdraw all charges against British author Alan Shadrake.In a protest memorandum addressed to the Singapore High Commission, a group of about 10 activists led by lawyer N Surendran (centre in photo) called for judicial reform in...
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Let's join Lawyers for Liberty together with the Kuala Lumpur Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (KLSCAH) in the handing over a Memorandum of Protest to demand Singapore Government to end persecution against Alan Shadrake at Embassy.
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The lawyer for former airman N Tharmendran today brushed aside the Defence Ministry's justification for a group of military personnel who went looking for Tharmendran at his family's home in Seremban last month.
N Surendran, who is Tharmendran's lead counsel, said they are outraged that the ministry insists that the visit was normal procedure in...
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Lawyer and parliamentarian Karpal Singh, a prominent advocate for human rights and the Rule of Law, is wrong to call for child rapists to be hanged.
Probably, like a lot of Malaysians, he is horrified and angry over the recent incident involving the blatant rape of a student in a school bus in front of...
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