SHAH ALAM: A Coroner’s Court here held that the police had committed unlawful omission by not providing immediate medical attention to security guard C. Sugumar, who ran amok and died two years ago. Judge Rozi Bainon said the police’s refusal to send Sugumar to hospital after he suffered difficulty in breathing, because he was big…
KUALA LUMPUR: Human rights lawyer Eric Paulsen was charged in a Sessions Court here Thursday over a tweet in which he allegedly accused the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) of promoting extremism. He was brought before judge Abdul Rashid Daud to have his charge read to him. Paulsen, who is also Lawyers for Liberty executive…
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 14 — Police today released lawyer Eric Paulsen after remanding him for two days to probe his post on Twitter that accused a federal Islamic agency of extremism. Paulsen, the executive director of Lawyers for Liberty (LFL), said he is being investigated under Section 4 of the Sedition Act 1948, adding that…
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 12 — Lawyer Eric Paulsen was arrested tonight over a Twitter post accusing the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) of spreading extremism through Friday sermons, according to Lawyers for Liberty (LFL). Paulsen was being investigated by police for sedition over the now-deleted message that he had published last week “Latest: @EricPaulsen101 just…
KUALA LUMPUR: Padang Serai MP N. Surendran pleaded not guilty on Thursday to a charge of sedition at the Sessions Court here. Surendran, 48, claimed trial to uttering seditious words in a YouTube video at 2pm on Aug 8. The PKR vice-president allegedly committed the offence at the Palace of Justice in Putrajaya in his…
KUALA LUMPUR: Lawyer N. Surendran has claimed trial to a charge of sedition over a press statement made in connection with Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s second sodomy case. Surendran, 48, was charged on Tuesday at the Sessions Court with releasing a seditious press statement entitled “Court of Appeal’s Fitnah 2 written judgement is flawed, defensive…