Kuala Lumpur, Apr 7 – Scores of civil society groups and non-governmental organizations gathered at the Kuala Lumpur-Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall to express deep regret on the untimely death of Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed. Ahmad Sarbani, 56, who was recently promoted to the position of assistant director in the Selangor Customs Department, was found sprawled on…
Press Statement Lawyers for Liberty is extremely shocked and appalled at High Court Judge Harminder Singh’s decision today to strike out the wrongful arrest, detention and malicious prosecution civil suit brought by several human rights lawyers/activists against the police, the Home Ministry and the government over their arrest, detention and subsequent criminal prosecution during the…
G Vinod |freemalaysiatoday.com March 15, 2011 The Bukit Jalil estate residents obtained an interim injunction for 21 days from the court, thwarting DBKL’s plan of evicting them. FULL REPORT KUALA LUMPUR: Bukit Jalil estate residents scored a minor victory this morning when the court granted an injunction against the demolition of their houses. When lawyers…
Animal rights groups Malaysian Animal Welfare Society, Malaysian Animal Rights Society & PETPOSITIVE, together with Lawyers for Liberty and others are handing over a memorandum of protest to Democratic Action Party’s Secretary-General YAB Lim Guan Eng over the press conference of self-confessed kitten killer by 2 DAP elected representatives. They are demanding an apology from…
Philip Ho www.klik4malaysia.com Friday, 11 March 2011 13:36 Kuala Lumpur, Mar 11 – Residents of the former Bukit Jalil rubber estate located at 6 ½ mile of the Bukit Jalil highway, turned up in force earlier this morning in the hopes of meeting the Kuala Lumpur City Mayor Datuk Ahmad Fuad Ismail. Two buses ferrying…
Notification of Event : Memorandum of Protest to Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) Bukit Jalil Estate Residents together with Lawyers for Liberty (LFL), JERIT, SUARAM, PERMAS, PSM, PKR and other concerned citizens will be handing over a memorandum of protest to Kuala Lumpur City Hall Mayor to demand the Kuala Lumpur City Hall Mayor to…
Terdapat persamaan yang luar biasa antara pemerintahan autoritarian selama 30 tahun di Mesir oleh Hosni Mubarak dan pemerintahan menindas selama 53 tahun oleh Najib dan Barisan Nasional ke atas Malaysia. Perdana Menteri Najib menggunakan cara-cara yang sama dengan Mubarak dalam usahanya untuk mengekalkan kuasa BN keatas negara kita. Antara persamaannya adalah: pergantungan kerajaan atas…
There are remarkable similarities between the 30 year authoritarian rule of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and the 53 year oppressive rule of Najib’s Barisan Nasional (BN) over Malaysia. Prime Minister Najib uses methods identical to Mubarak in his quest to maintain the BN’s grip on our country. Among the similarities are: government reliance on a massive police apparatus to…
Animal rights groups Malaysian Animal Welfare Society & PETPOSITIVE, together with Lawyers for Liberty and others are handing over a memorandum of protest to Democratic Action Party’s Secretary-General YAB Lim Guan Eng over the press conference of self-confessed kitten killer on Sunday, March 6, 2011 by 2 DAP elected representatives. They are demanding an apology…
G Vinod | March 8, 2011 freemalaysiatoday.com The Bukit Jalil estate residents have given City Hall 48-hours to explain the eviction notices, failing which an application for an injunction will be filed. KUALA LUMPUR: Ladang Bukit Jalil residents are planning to file an injunction to stop the City Hall (DBKL) from evicting them on March…
PRESS RELEASE : The torture and killing of a kitten in Serdang recently has shocked the nation. The sickening scene was captured on CCTV and widely distributed on the internet. The perpetrator has since confessed to the crime and is identified as 21 year old Chow Xiao Wei. However, we are appalled by the conduct of two…
It is obvious to any thinking person why Anwar Ibrahim now sits daily in the dock of the Kuala Lumpur High Court undergoing trial on a criminal charge. Anwar tried to set in train a series of fundamental changes to the way this country is being administered and to our national political discourse. These changes…
Press Statement : Lawyers for Liberty is gravely dismayed over the Federal Court’s decision today dismissing K Selvach’s appeal against the dismissal of his habeas corpus application by the High Court on 20.12.2010. The Federal Court affirmed the decision made by the High Court dismissing K Selvach’s appeal by ruling that the High Court has…
Since 2000, at least 147 people have died in police custody (unless otherwise stated, statistics are from PDRM – released during P.Uthayakumar’s ongoing sedition trial) but yet there is little accountability, transparency or any real investigations by the authorities responsible, namely the courts, the police, the Attorney General’s Chambers and the hospitals which provide medical…
Sunday, February 13, 2011 Lawyers for Liberty Lawyers for Liberty is an organzation in Kuala Lumpur dedicated to the cause of Human Rights and the reform of oppressive laws in Malaysia. Its members are youthful, fearless and unyielding defenders of Human Rights. They have persevered in the face of threats, intimidation and on multiple occassions, arrest.…