Proposed legislative amendments to allow "protected witnesses" to testify in secret will cause problems for the criminal justice system, warned Lawyers for Liberty (LFL). Secret witness law will cause injustice, says LFLwww.malaysiakini.comIf new law passed, secret witness will be protecte …
Read More »The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), in condemning the legislative amendm…
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), in condemning the legislative amendment to the Sedition Act, has called on the government to stop using the law to threaten and persecute independent journalists. http://ow.ly/LzehG CPJ: Stop threatening independent journalistswww.malaysiakini.comCommittee …
Read More »PKR had ordered its sole representative in the Kelantan state legislative assemb…
PKR had ordered its sole representative in the Kelantan state legislative assembly to abstain from debating or voting on the contentious bill to amend the Syariah Criminal Code II Enactment 1993. Read more here: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/292530 PKR ordered rep to abstain from hudud votewww.ma …
Read More »#BREAKING The Kelantan state legislative assembly has unanimously passed a Bill…
#BREAKING The Kelantan state legislative assembly has unanimously passed a Bill to amend the Kelantan Syariah Criminal Code II 1993. All 44 state assemblypersons were present, including Roslan Puteh (PKR-Guchil). More to follow: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/292500 Malaysiakini’s Facebook W …
Read More »Selangor Legislative Assembly Speaker Hannah Yeoh’s return to Malaysia after a f…
Selangor Legislative Assembly Speaker Hannah Yeoh’s return to Malaysia after a four-month work stint in Tasmania right after her graduation was never on her bigger plans of things. Back home for a special callingwww.malaysiakini.comCOMMENT Politics was an idea so remote for Hannah Yeoh – until …
Read More »The Selangor state legislative assembly has no power to enact laws which restric…
The Selangor state legislative assembly has no power to enact laws which restricted freedom of speech and expression, the Federal Court in Putrajaya heard today. Lawyer Malik Imtiaz Sarwar submitted that only Parliament was vested with powers to enact laws to restrict speech and expression in Malays …
Read More »VIDEO l KiniTV: The PAS Ulama Council is not the legislative body of the party….
VIDEO l KiniTV: The PAS Ulama Council is not the legislative body of the party. It is the Central Council. And the oath of obedience of PAS members is only to God and his Prophet Muhammad, party leader Khalid Samad says. Khalid, a PAS Central Committee (CC) member, was explaining how PAS works as a …
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