The Malaysian Bar condemns the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (“MACC”) for ordering Latheefa Koya and Murnie Hidayah Anuar, the two lawyers who acted as legal counsel for Shamsubahrain Ismail and accompanied him during his questioning by MACC, to be similarly questioned, in the name of assisting an investigation into an offence. The presence of a lawyer…
Lawyers for Liberty has obtained photographs that affirmatively showed Hamza Kashgari was actually in the country for a couple of days before his arrest on 9 February 2012 (please see the attached photos). The Home Minister and the police had continuously maintained that Hamza was arrested upon his arrival at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport…
MACC Notice Once again the MACC has shown its utter contempt for the Constitution, basic legal principles and seems to operate in a realm of lawlessness. On 19 March, two lawyers, Latheefa Koya and Murnie Hidayah Anuar (who were representing their client, Shamsubahrain Ismail over the NFC scandal) were themselves served with a notice under…
Dalam konteks Malaysia, berdasarkan metodologi tahun 2005, pendapatan garis kemiskinan (PGK) adalah setara dengan pendapatan minimum yang diperlukan oleh sesebuah isirumah bagi mencapai taraf hidup minimum, cukup untuk menampung perbelanjaan membeli atau menikmati keperluan asas sama ada makanan dan bukan makanan. PGK makanan, yang digunapakai bagi definisi kemiskinan tegar adalah berdasarkan keperluan diet/nutrisi asas rakyat…
Mungkin ramai penganalisis ekonomi antarabangsa dan tanahair, penggubal dasar ekonomi di peringkat pusat mahu pun di peringkat negeri, para pejuang hak asasi manusia dan aktivis sosial malah rakyat Malaysia secara umumnya bingung dan termangu-mangu dengan dakwaan PM Najib bahawasanya Sabah bukan lagi negeri termiskin di Malaysia hanya berdasarkan kepada purata pendapatan per kapita negeri tersebut…
PSM sec-gen Arutchelvan and Mohd Khalid are being investigated under the Sedition Act for speeches made at an ABU ceramah on Jan 23. KAJANG: PSM secretary general S Arutchelvan and second year UiTM law student cum activist Mohd Khalid Ismath were called up by the police and questioned for about 40 minutes today over speeches…
Sewaktu artikel ini ditulis, saya tidak pasti apakah nasib Hamza Kashgari. Sudah lebih dua minggu beliau dihantar pulang (dideportasi) secara tidak sah ke Arab Saudi oleh kerajaan Malaysia. Penghantaran pulang secara tergesa-gesa dan tidak menurut lunas-lunas perundangan ini sudah pasti menimbulkan banyak tanda tanya, tambahan apabila ia melibatkan dua negara yang menjadi anggota kepada Majlis…
Statelessness and Burma’s democratic transition Rohingya children in Maungdaw, northern Rakhine state. Images: Eric Paulsen In the midst of the cautious excitement accompanying Burma’s seeming democratic transition, one of the key human rights issues that international leaders and Burma’s pro-democratic and ethnic activists have failed to address is the continuing statelessness and…
Press Statement Lawyers for Liberty is appalled by Judge Rohana Yusof’s summary dismissal of Hamza Kashgari’s habeas corpus application today on the ground that it was “academic” since he has been deported. The judge also failed to allow or even to make a ruling on Hamza’s lawyers application to cross examine the immigration officers who…
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 — The High Court here today dismissed the habeas corpus application filed by lawyers for Saudi Arabian journalist Hamzah Kashgari, granting the preliminary objection raised by the Attorney-General’s Chambers. Kashgari, who writes for the Jeddah-based Al Bilad newspaper, was deported on February 12 at the request of Saudi government for posting…
Sesiapa yang tahu mendalam tentang budaya Arab akan tahu bagaimana syair, sajak dan gurindam amat-amat dekat di hati bangsa Arab. Bukan sesuatu yang ganjil apabila kita bertemu seorang Beduin di padang pasir yang mungkin buta huruf tetapi boleh menghafal syair dan sajak yang berumur ratusan tahun. Puncak keindahan bahasa Arab ini boleh dihayati dalam al-Quran. ‘I love…
Lawyers representing Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari have said there are no immigration records of his deportation from Malaysia, insinuating that the 23-year-old had been sent back to his native country surreptitiously and in violation of international laws concerning “non-refoulement”. According to Kashgari’s lawyer, Fadiah Nadwa Fikri, neither Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah (Subang) airport nor Kuala Lumpur International…
KUALA LUMPUR: Lawyers representing Saudi Arabian journalist Hamza Kashgari Mohamad Najeeb said today that there were no immigration records showing that the 23-year-old was deported prior to a court injunction preventing the government from doing so. “We checked at the Subang airport immigration at between 2.15pm to 2.30pm and there were no immigration records of…
Malaysia’s government on Monday defended its decision to deport a young Saudi journalist who may face persecution at home for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad on Twitter. International rights groups have slammed the deportation but Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said Malaysia was not a safe haven for fugitives. Jiddah-based newspaper columnist Hamza Kashgari, 23, was…
A day after Malaysia deported a 23-year old Saudi Arabian journalist to face charges of insulting the Prophet Muhammad on Twitter, his Malaysia-based lawyers are hoping to keep the case alive in Malaysia’s courts, even though it’s unlikely to affect the journalist’s fate in his home country. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Internet surfers check their Twitter accounts…