Perhilitan and police are alleged to have neglected questioning a key witness to the global traffic in exotic species. PETALING JAYA: Malaysian authorities recently wasted a rare opportunity to get vital information from a key witness to a global wildlife trafficking syndicate involving the notorious Anson Wong, according to PKR vice-president and human rights lawyer…
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…
LFL Rantings: The demonisation of Bersih and Ambiga is continuing. The police arrest, intimidation and harassment are continuing, and they are not keeping an atmosphere of peace but of an emergency. Do not forget that the police are still detaining 6 PSM activists including MP Dr. Jeyakumar under the Emergency Ordinance which is no different…
KUALA LUMPUR: Peserta Perhimpunan Bersih 2.0 dinasihatkan supaya tidak panik sekiranya ditangkap polis, kata peguam Hak Asasi Manusia, Lawyers For Liberty (LFL) dalam forum anjurannya bertajuk ‘Hak Untuk Berhimpun’. Forum tersebut menampilkan panel yang terdiri daripada N. Surendran, R. Sivarsa dan Latheeya Koya yang dipengerusikan Fadiah Nadwa Fikri di Dewan Perhimpunan Cina Selangor, semalam. Latheefa…
KUALA LUMPUR: Peguam hak asasi manusia N Surendran mengkritik Akta Polis 1967 yang menjadi batu penghalang kepada hak berhimpun. “Sesuatu hak bukan hak sekiranya permit diperlukan untuk mengamalkan hak tersebut. Ia lesen,” kata beliau yang juga merupakan antara pengasas pertubuhan bukan kerajaan (NGO) Lawyers For Liberty pada bengkel ‘Hak Berhimpun’ anjuran NGO tersebut di Dewan…
KUALA LUMPUR, July 1 — Malaysians have the right to march as the Police Act 1967 that mandates permits for public assemblies violates the constitutional right to assemble peacefully, says PKR vice-president N. Surendran. The human rights lawyer stressed that Malaysians had the right to march in the July 9 Bersih rally, pointing out that…
LFL RANTINGS: Are we really surprised that Penang High Court judge Zamani agreed with the DPP and police that the PSM activists should be investigated for “preparing to wage war” under section 122 of the Penal Code and that they should be detained for 7 days – all because of some PSM leaflets and communist-inspired…
Press Release Malaysia: Authorities must cease violations of freedom of peaceful assembly and expression Paris-Bangkok, 30 June 2011. The recent arrests and criminal charges against members and supporters of the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM), as well as the government’s refusal to grant permit for political rallies, constitute serious violations of the right to freedom…
Permit Bersih Coalition to Hold March (Bangkok, June 30, 2011) – The Malaysian government should immediately end its crackdown on the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) and release everyone arbitrarily detained for involvement in its activities, Human Rights Watch said today. Police should return all Bersih-related materials confiscated during the past week and…
PETALING JAYA: Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein who said wearing yellow Bersih 2.0 T-shirts is illegal came under fire from lawyers and academics today who said he was “talking nonsense”. Hishammuddin told the press this morning that the arrests of those wearing such T-shirts are justified as it is related to an illegal activity. However, the…
PETALING JAYA: The police today raided the Bersih secretariat here and seized several items as the authorities increased the pressure on the movement to call off its mass rally on July 9. They have also taken away seven staff members for questioning. PKR supreme council member Latheefa Koya told reporters that the police came at…
Nurul Izzah Anwar and three other PKR leaders are among those being investigated under the Sedition Act and Police Act. KUALA LUMPUR: Three PKR leaders and a lawyer are being investigated under the Sedition Act in connection with the Bersih 2.0 rally scheduled for July 9. PKR vice-presidents Nurul Izzah Anwar and N Surendran, the…
Government Refuses Permit for Opposition Rally, Jails Pamphleteers (Bangkok, June 28, 2011) – The Malaysian authorities should order the immediate release of 30 members of the opposition Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) who were pulled off their bus and arrested on the way to a political rally in Penang on June 25, 2011, Human…