KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 20, 2013): The sessions court here has set Sept 13 for case management of the sedition trial of PKR vice-president Tian Chua and five other activists who were alleged to have committed the offence at the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (KLSCAH) on May 13. Judge Norsharidah Awang made the…
KUALA LUMPUR: The Sessions Court here has exempted 33 people charged with unlawful assembly in Jalan Parlimen from attending court for the setting of case management dates leading up to their trial. Judge Mat Ghani Abdullah allowed an application by counsel Latheefa Koya for the exemption, after she requested it on the grounds that there…
KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 19): Human rights counsel Eric Paulsen says the government has responded “positively” in a case involving three stateless women. Letchumy Suppiah, 70 and her daughters Mala Kothandu, 45, and Sarojini Kothandu, 33, are seeking a court order to compel the National Registration Department (NRD) to issue them with blue identity cards or…
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 18 — Braving religious fire, Datuk Zaid Ibrahim has censured Islamic supremacists for their inflexible stance towards non-Muslims by declaring on Twitter that “lousy unthinking Muslims” are undermining the creed of peace. The former minister lashed out at one-time Umno colleague, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, after the home minister told non-Muslims…
Press Statement Lawyers for Liberty views with extreme concern the escalating religious intolerance in Malaysia where in recent months, several minor incidents of perceived insult against Islam have been blown completely out of proportion by Umno leaders, their supporters and the mainstream media – leading to the arrest and remand of Maznah Yusof @ Chetz…
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 16 – Freedom of speech may not be absolute but its limits cannot be so low that all manner of perceived insults to religion bring the full brunt of authority on transgressors, human rights and law reform group Lawyers for Liberty said today. Expressing “extreme concern” today about the “escalating religious intolerance”…
Pertubuhan Pribumi Perkasa Malaysia (Perkasa) percaya komen yang dibuat NGO hak asasi dan reformasi undang-undang, Lawyers For Liberty (LFL)menyamakan tindakan pihak berkuasa Johor seperti pihak Taliban sengaja dilakukan bagi menyemarakkan api kemarahan umat Islam. Menyelar komen itu sebagai melampau, Timbalan Presidennya, Datuk Abd Rahman Bakar, berkata ia jelas dilakukan pihak yang mempunyai agenda tertentu. “Perkasa…
Kebiadaban dan keceluparan pihak tertentu dalam mengulas kejadian berkaitan dengan umat Islam dan orang Melayu semakin ketara. Ia terbukti apabila sebuah lagi pertubuhan bukan kerajaan (NGO) memperlekehkan tindakan tegas polis dan Majlis Agama Islam Johor (MAIJ) berhubung isu surau di sebuah resort di Sedili, Kota Tinggi yang digunakan oleh bukan Islam untuk upacara keagamaan mereka…
PETALING JAYA (Aug 13, 2013): The government has to come up with a concrete solution to deal with disputes over the conversion of children as court rulings will not achieve anything in the long run, civil society groups said. They were commenting on reports that the Ipoh government, Perak Islamic Religious Department, and the Registrar…
PETALING JAYA (Aug 13, 2013): For a law that is supposed to be on its way out, the Sedition Act 1948 is still actively used, most recently on a Facebook user who allegedly insulted police, on top of a slew of other cases that saw internet users, politicians and NGO members being hauled up by…
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…
PETALING JAYA: Lawyers of dog trainer Maznah ‘Chetz’ Yusof said Islamic Development Department (Jakim) has no authority to question her. “Jakim has no legal authority whatsoever to order Chetz to explain the video or attend before them,” said the lawyers. “It is shocking that despite our repeated protests, Jakim has jumped the gun by stating…
Lawyers for the Muslim dog handler have expressed shock at what Jakim had to say about the controversy, calling it “unlawful”. Yesterday, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom announced that Jakim has found that the YouTube clip of Maznah Mohd Yusof and her three dogs which went viral online was…
KUALA LUMPUR: The fourth suspect, Inspector S Hare Krishnan, was today charged for causing the death of N Dhamendran on May 21. He was charged under section 302 along with section 34 of the Penal Code. Deputy public prosecutor S Nithia informed the court that the prosecution was awaiting for the final post-mortem report which…