August 12, 2013

PETALING JAYA (Aug 12, 2013): Handing preventive detention powers to a panel rather than a minister will not make any difference, legal activists said today in response to Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s legal reform suggestion quoted in a Malay daily on Sunday. Malaysian Centre for Constitutionalism and Human Rights coordinator Edmund Bon…

PETALING JAYA: Police have recorded a statement from Suaram leader Cynthia Gabriel in an investigation under the Sedition Act over a fund-raising dinner it held two weeks ago. Cynthia came to the Petaling Jaya police headquarters at around 3pm yesterday with her lawyers – Latheefa Koya and Derek Fernandez – as well as a small…