KUALA LUMPUR: The Prevention of Terrorism Bill (POTA) 2015 was passed without amendment at the Dewan Rakyat at about 2.25am after a debate of more than 12 hours. The bill was passed after the ninth block voting, with the final voting favouring the government when 79 members of parliament (MPs) agreeing on the bill while…
KUALA LUMPUR: Cartoonist Zunar has claimed trial to nine charges of sedition for allegedly insulting the judiciary in tweets made regarding Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s conviction in the Sodomy 2 case. Zulkiflee Anwar Haque, 53, better known as Zunar, was charged before the Sessions Court with publishing seditious tweets through the account @zunarkartunis at 3pm…
KUALA LUMPUR: Cartoonist Zunar has claimed trial to nine charges of sedition for allegedly insulting the judiciary in tweets made regarding Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s conviction in the Sodomy 2 case. Zulkiflee Anwar Haque, 53, better known as Zunar, was charged before the Sessions Court with publishing seditious tweets through the account @zunarkartunis at 3pm…
KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 — The civil liberties lawyer hauled up by police over a tweet expressing her fear of being raped, today condemned the justice system as a failure if voicing her concerns results in her being investigated. Lawyer Michelle Yesudas also said she has since been contacted by the federal police instructing her…
PETALING JAYA: Human rights lawyer Eric Paulsen has been arrested for sedition over tweets he posted on hudud. The Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) executive director was arrested yesterday over two tweets posted on his Twitter account earlier the same day. City CID chief Senior Asst Comm Zainuddin Ahmad confirmed the arrest and said Paulsen was…
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…
KUALA LUMPUR (May 14): Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM) president Badrul Hisham Shaharin @ Chegubard and two others have been once again granted a discharge not amounting to acquittal for not giving adequate notice to the police for their public assembly on New Year’s eve. Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court judge Ahmad Bachek decided that…
KUALA LUMPUR, May 10 — Anti-government and even racist views must be protected under provisions for free speech in the National Harmony Act which is set to replace the Sedition Act, as long as they do not incite violence, lawyers said. Civil liberties lawyers argued that two recent cases suggest that the scope of free…
KUALA LUMPUR, May 8 — Authorities did not investigate single mother Norizan Salleh’s claim of attempted murder after she was shot five times by the police five years ago, the High Court was told today. ASP Tan Chek Yang, who was the senior investigating officer in the case, testified today that he did not…
It is wrong of the Attorney-General to recharge any person for an offence that does not exist following a superior court ruling, criminal lawyers said, as three more activists are expected to be charged again tomorrow under the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012 with the same “offence”. The lawyers said Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail…