Media Statement (3) by DAP Parliamentary Leader and MP for Ipoh Timor Lim Kit Siang in Petaling Jaya on Wednesday May 20, 2009: Professor Shad Faruqi’s latest Star weekly column “Reflecting on the Law” on “Put interest of the nation first” and how the Perak
Malaysiakini The Bar Council today submitted a memorandum to the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) asking for a public inquiry over the arrest of five lawyers on May 7. Bar Council chairperson Ragunath Kesavan said the human rights body should also investigate the conduct
Malaysiakini The continued arrest of those who don black and light candles to mourn the ‘demise of democracy’ has failed to deter opposition politicians and activists from pressing on with their agenda. Barely 24 hours after 11 more were picked up – including two DAP
Rahmah Ghazali (Malaysiakini) Serdang lawmaker Teo Nie Ching, one of 11 people arrested but denied access to their lawyers last night, has demanded that Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein should explain the “abuse of power” by the police. She directed the same question to Brickfields OCPD
<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/xRLRBg0NLj8&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/xRLRBg0NLj8&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object> The police have tonight arrested more elected representatives – an opposition parliamentarian as well as a state assemblyperson – at a candlelight vigil to ‘mourn the death of democracy’. Serdang MP Teo Nie
PRESS RELEASE: 20 MAY 2009 We the undersigned civil society groups urge Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak to make police reform one of the two most urgent tasks in his reform plan, alongside with a solution to the Perak Constitutional Crisis. Whether he likes it
By N Shashi Kala (thenutgraph.com) KUALA LUMPUR, 20 May 2009: Eleven people, including two DAP politicians, were arrested for taking part in a candlelight vigil in Seputeh yesterday evening.
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