KUALA LUMPUR, 3 Aug 2009: Sixteen supporters of the Abolish the ISA Movement (GMI) pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here today to participating in an illegal assembly. Those charged comprised 11 men and five women, aged between 30 and 60 years. They are Nordin Ahmad, Hayati Abdul Samad, Salmah Ismail, Norlaila Othman, Rashini, […]
Archives for August 2009
Religious councils allowed to be intervenors in Herald case
KUALA LUMPUR, 3 Aug 2009: The High Court here today allowed eight parties, including seven Islamic religious councils, to be intervenors in the new application by the Kuala Lumpur Roman Catholic Church for a judicial review in the matter of using the word “Allah” in its weekly publication. Justice Lau Bee Lan made the decision […]
Fence-sitting on the anti-ISA demonstration
By Lim Hong SiangMEDIA cetak bahasa Cina utama menyiarkan gambar bagaimana polis menyuraikan perhimpunan “Mansuhkan ISA” dengan tembakan gas pemedih mata dan semburan meriam air berasid. Ramai penulis dan penganalisa duduk di atas pagar, sementara menonjolkan “kekerasan yang keterlaluan dari pihak polis”, juga dicadangkan agar orang ramai menyuarakan pandangan mengikut “saluran yang bersesuaian”. Namun demikian, pada hari keesokan […]
Cepatkan undang-undang untuk mengganti ISA
Oleh Muhamad Razak IdrisANGKATAN Belia Islam Malaysia (Abim) menggesa pihak kerajaan mempercepatkan tindakan bagi proses penggubalan undang-undang baru bagi menggantikan Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri atau ISA. Ini bagi memastikan supaya kegiatan protes terhadap ISA oleh sebahagian dari anggota masyarakat di negara ini, sebagaimana yang telah berlaku kelmarin, dapat dielakkan dari berterusan. Antara tindakan segera yang boleh dilakukan oleh […]
Children’s rights violated
By Ragunath KesavanTHE Malaysian Bar denounces the government’s overzealous and abusive show of power in its apparent determination to crush the people’s exercise of its right to the twin freedoms of assembly and expression during the rallies in Kuala Lumpur on 1 Aug 2009. According to media and eyewitness accounts, police used excessive and disproportionate physical force, […]
Suhakam: Respect right to assembly
By Tan Sri Simon SipaunTHE Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) regrets to note that in the process of dispersing the 15,000-strong crowd marching in protest of the Internal Security Act (ISA) in Kuala Lumpur on 1 Aug 2009, the police used tear gas and water [cannons] excessively, which also affected bystanders. The day of the public assembly ended […]
Kg Buah Pala demolition postponed to tomorrow
PENANG, 3 Aug 2009: Demolition of houses in Kampung Buah Pala, Bukit Gelugor, which was supposed to take place today, has been postponed to tomorrow. Landowner Koperasi Pegawai Kerajaan Negeri Pulau Pinang (KPKPP) has given residents a one-day reprieve to allow them to remove their belongings. However, Kampung Buah Pala residents association assistant secretary CTharmaraj […]
Uthayakumar’s sedition trial postponed
KUALA LUMPUR, 3 Aug 2009: A Sessions Court judge told off lawyer P Uthayakumar’s counsel today when he informed the court that his client was not in court as he was in London seeking treatment for a heart complication. Judge Sabariah Othman told lawyer N Surendran that the court would not tolerate any more delays. […]
Indiscipline within PKR
By Zedeck Siew(Silhouette image by deeisforda / sxc.hu) ON 9 Aug 2008, the Malaysian Bar Council held a forum titled Conversion to Islam: Article 121(1A) of the Federal Constitution, Subashini and Shamala Revisited. Today, a year on, we remember the forum not for what was discussed. A 300-person demonstration gathered to protest the Bar Council’s apparent “anti-Islam […]
Menghormati arwah Yasmin Ahmad
Oleh Shanon ShahBELUM sampai 24 jam arwah Yasmin Ahmad selamat dikebumikan, muka depan akhbar harian Kosmo! telah membuat pendedahan tentang sejarah peribadinya. Pada hari yang sama, 27 Julai 2009, majalah hiburan Mangga Online juga membuat “pendedahan” yang sama melalui wartawannya, Rosli Manah. Yang anehnya, bahagian laporan Mangga Online yang menyentuh sejarah peribadi Yasmin itu telah dikeluarkan dari […]
