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 seeking out military personnel who go absent without leave.
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 other students and the public.
The rising incidence of rape and violence against children and women is truly alarming, and indicates a deep-seated malaise in our society, a malaise that can be traced to our education system, the incoherent rules by which we live, the lack of respect for the Rule of Law, how our social and economic policies have abandoned large sections of our citizens to a hopeless, dehumanising and wretched poverty.
Our policing have gaping holes. People have no confidence in our policing; that i
It was reported in The Sunday Star that almost 1,000 migrant workers hired by 130 sub-contractors to work on the RM800 million Istana Negara project on Jalan Duta had not been paid for the last five months and were living in fear and frustration either because they did not have work permits or could not afford to renew permits which had expired.
©The Star by BAVANI M and JAYAGANDI JAYARAJ KUALA LUMPUR: Many foreign workers hired to build the new RM800mil Istana Negara claim they have not been paid over the last three months despite working seven days a week. Living in fear and frustration, the workers alleged they were exploited and cheated and held to ransom…
Lawyers for Liberty, a Malaysian group which is against the death penalty, has called on the Malaysian government to raise the case of Yong Vui Kong with Singapore’s Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, who is on a one-day visit to the country. Prime Minister Lee is accompanied on the trip by Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo,…
Kakak Aminulrasyid Amzah – Tuty Shaniza Anum – dipanggil polis sekali lagi hari ini – kali ini oleh polis trafik – untuk memberi keterangan berhubung kereta yang digunakan oleh adiknya yang mati polis pada awal pagi 26 April lalu. Tuty Shaniza tiba di cawangan trafik IPD Shah Alam di seksyen 11, pada kira-kira jam 6…
SHAH ALAM, May 19 (Bernama) — A man has lodged a police report that he was shot by police at a roadblock in Section 7 here at midnight on April 16 last year. Shahril Azlan Ahmad Kamil, 26, said he lodged the report as no action was taken after the first lodged by his father…
Polis merakamkan kenyataan wartawan akhbar web PAS Harakahdaily ekoran laporannya berhubung pembabitan agen Israel dalam pasukan polis, seperti didakwa Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Dzulfikar Mashoor atau nama sebenarnya Zainurfaqar Yaacob dipanggil membantu siasatan ekoran laporannya berjudul ‘Asiasoft: Ujian genting bagi Hishammuddin’ pada 10 April di laman web parti Islam itu. Sehingga kini, laporan…
Four lawyers and three activists were acquitted and discharged by the Sessions Court today of taking part in an unlawful assembly and failing to adhere to police orders to disperse two years ago. Judge S.M. Komathy Suppiah, in acquitting them without calling for their defence, said the prosecution had failed to make out a prima…
The high-handed and arbitrary police arrests of eight people, including five lawyers, for the peaceful march to mark the International Human Rights Day in Kuala Lumpur this morning has marred the celebration of Human Rights Day and blotted Malaysia’s international image on human rights. The arrest of the eight, including five lawyers, N Surendran, Latheefa…
Malaysian police halted an annual human-rights march on Sunday, arresting at least four people and drawing widespread criticism for being intolerant of dissent. (REUTERS/Stringer) The police have arrested eight people, including five lawyers, for proceeding with a march to mark International Human Rights Day from the Sogo department store to Central Market in Kuala Lumpur…
