LFL Rantings: Despite offering a major compromise to hold the Bersih rally at Stadium Merdeka, the authorities especially the Home Minister, AG’s Chambers and police have snubbed Bersih’s offer in good faith and instead maintained that Bersih is still “illegal”, continuing with the harassment, arrest, detention and criminal charge of those affiliated to Bersih, and…
KUALA LUMPUR, 5 JULY, 2011: Some 50 individual held a candlelight vigil outside the Federal police head quarters (Bukit Aman) here tonight in calling for the release of six Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) activists who have been detained under the Emergency Ordinance (EO). The group gathered there at 8:15pm and included family members of the…
KUALA LUMPUR: The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) today criticised the police for not acting independently and denying requests by lawyers and families to visit the six Parti Socialis Malaysia (PSM) members detained under under the Emergency Ordinance 1969 (EO). “It is clear that the police are dancing to the tune of their polical…
PETALING JAYA, July 5 — Lawyers representing women’s rights group Empower chief Maria Chin Abdullah said her questioning today by the police is purely to intimidate and harass the Bersih movement. Lawyers Fadiah Nadwa Fikir and Honey Tan, who are representing Maria, told reporters that police informed them that they were investigating Maria under the…