Posted in Human Rights, Parliament on Jun 25th, 2008 3 Comments »
I received a reply from the Secretary of Dewan Rakyat yesterday (24 June) informed me that my question on Waytha Moorthy was rejected.
I submitted a question to the Home Minister requesting clarification whether Waytha Moorthy who is now living in exile in UK would be arrested upon his return. If yes, under what act?
The ground […]
Posted in Activities, Human Rights, Talks on Jun 18th, 2008 3 Comments »
Photo with Ashvin Raj, a friend from Facebook who attended the forum
The ISA Forum last night (17 June) was attended by about one hundred people. I don’t think the ayttendance correlated with the level of support for the issue. On the contrary, I can confidently say that a majority of Malaysians do not support the […]
Posted in Human Rights, Talks on Jun 17th, 2008 1 Comment »
I will be giving a talk in the forum on Internal Security Act (ISA) tonight (17 June 2008). The forum is organized by Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA (GMI), Civil Rights Committee and Bar Council’s Human Rights Committee. Other panelists include: Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan (President of Bar Council), Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh (Chairperson of GMI) and family […]
Posted in Activities, Human Rights, BERSIH on Feb 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
Have to attend court today (10 Feb). 17 of us including Mat Sabu, personnel of Unit AMAL PAS and I had been charged for causing riots during BERSIH mass demonstration. We were arrested 10 November last year.
The court in fact fixed this week for the trial. The trial supposed to proceed this morning and […]
Posted in Viewpoint, Politics, Human Rights, Miscellaneous on Feb 2nd, 2008 3 Comments »
Mahathir visits the dying Soeharto
Indonesian dictator Soeharto is died. Ironically the news reached me while I was in the lock-up.
The date of Soeharto’s death, 27 January 2008 was almost 10 years apart from his stepping down as President on 21 May 1998.
Soeharto reign had a great deal of impact on me. My interaction with the […]
Posted in Activities, Human Rights, Protes Inflation on Jan 31st, 2008 2 Comments »
Although 27 Jan was a Sunday, a magistrate was brought into the lock-up (Pudu Jail). At 14:00hr, all the detainees were brought out from the cell to the front entrance.
As usual, many hardworking and righteous lawyers volunteered their service to be our legal defence team. Our defence was led by Amer Hamzah.
We were aware that […]
Posted in Activities, Human Rights, Protes Inflation on Jan 31st, 2008 3 Comments »
Lately, the canteen of IPK became a regular hangout for me.
Whenever there was a mass arrest, the canteen area would be used for temporary retention site. Probably the area is the only available space big enough to hold a large number of people.
The atmosphere of arrest had been quite different in comparison to the Reformasi […]
Posted in Human Rights, Anwar, Protes Inflation on Jan 29th, 2008 16 Comments »
No doubt Malaysian police force is one of the world’s most efficient.
Under the leadership of Abdullah, police had acquired new efficiency in clamping down public protest.
Nowadays people could be arrested and charged with ‘illegal’ assembly, even though no assembly had taken place.
On 26 Jan the coalition of parties and NGOs planned to stage a protest […]
Posted in Activities, Human Rights, Economy, Protes Inflation on Jan 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
Now BN is synonym with “Barang Naik”. We have warned the government the risk of hyper-inflation a long time ago.
Instead of implementing prudent measures to stimulate economic growth, the government was busy launching various megaprojects and corridors. These projects bring in no investment in short-term, but partly contributed to inflationary pressure.
Anyway, it looks like we […]
Posted in Human Rights, International, Altantuya case, Judiciary on Dec 27th, 2007 1 Comment »
Recently there have been some good news from Mongolia.
On Nov 23, I received an email from a from Tenger. Tenger who I met in one of the international meeting was a young politician from the ruling Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP). We became acquaintance, as we share the same name. Tenger in Mongolian equals to […]