BFM Interview with Eric Paulsen on the Whistleblower Protection Act, BAFIA and Rafizi

The recent arrests of PKR strategic director Rafizi Ramli and former Public Bank employee Johari Osman under the Banking & Financial Institutions Act 1989 has raised concerns on the effectiveness of the Whistleblower Protection Act. In the following interview, Eric Paulsen, co-founder and advisor at human rights lawyers organisation Lawyers for Liberty, talks about how…

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Drug laws ‘unfair’ to Aussies in Malaysia

A MALAYSIAN law reform advocate says Australians on trial in Malaysia for drug trafficking may face an unfair trial, and there’s little chance of Malaysia’s mandatory death penalty for drug possession being changed in the near term. Surendran Nagarajan, founder of Kuala Lumpur-based legal rights group Lawyers for Liberty, says Malaysia’s Dangerous Drugs Act undermines…

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