LFL: Home Minister Zahid Hamidi must be arrested and prosecuted

Press Statement: 10 October 2013 Lawyers for Liberty is deeply concerned and disturbed at Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s ‘shoot first’ approach to law enforcement, which was voiced at the Malacca International Trade Center in Malacca last Friday. The Home Minister was reported to have said that most victims of violent crime were in fact…

Sri Lankan Government try to ban No Fire Zone in Nepal

Once again the government of Sri Lanka has tried to prevent an international screening of No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka, this time in Nepal. Once again they have failed because of the determination of defenders of human rights and free speech. Yesterday the Nepali authorities gave the organisers of the Film…