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Police stop anti-ISA event in Ampang, nine arrested

Published on November 25, 2008 in News. 0 Comments

The police moved in to disperse a group of people who had gathered at a field in Ampang Jaya for the launch of an anti-ISA campaign and arrested nine people including a parliamentarian.

Among those who were arrested for allegedly failing to disperse was Salahuddin Ayub, PAS member of parliament for Kubang Kerian.

Police light strike force unit started dispersing the crowd – numbering less than 100 – at about 9.26pm just as PAS vice-president Mohamad Sabu started to address the crowd.

By about 10pm, the police managed to remove the people from the field, with the assistance of a heavy downpour.
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Anti-ISA received harsh treament, wherelse…

Published on November 25, 2008 in News. 0 Comments

2,000 sertai perarakan aman anti-ISA

Published on September 29, 2008 in malaysiakini and News. 0 Comments

Andrew Ong & Rahmah Ghazali | Sep 27, 08 8:15pm
Malaysiakini

Kira-kira 2,000 menyertai perarakan aman di ibu negara malam ini, mendesak supaya dimansuhkan Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) dan dibebaskan tahanan di bawah akta kontroversi tersebut.

Pada mulanya, dua kumpulan – Barisan Bertindak Hak Hindu (Hindraf) dan gabungan NGO yang diketuai oleh Pakatan Penulis untuk Kebebasan Media (Wami) – merancang untuk mengadakan majlis memasang lilin di Dataran Merdeka pada kira-kira jam7.30 malam.

Apabila polis mengawal Dataran Merdeka, kumpulan Hindraf yang berjumlah kira-kira 500 orang, berarak menuju ke kuil yang terletak di depan pusat perhentian bas Puduraya kira-kira 1 km dari situ.
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US slams Malaysia for using harsh law against foes

Published on September 19, 2008 in International and News. 0 Comments

The Associated Press , Washington | Fri, 09/19/2008 8:11 AM | World

The United States strongly criticized Malaysia’s government Thursday for its use of a harsh security law to justify the arrests of opposition figures.

U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack referred in a special statement to a possibility that the law might be used again by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s government to quell dissent.

“The United States views with grave concern recent use by the government of Malaysia of the Internal Security Act and the possibility that it might be used again to detain opposition political figures,” McCormack said. “The statement by a government figure that a leading member of the opposition had become ‘a threat to the economy and national security’ is extremely troubling.”
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ISA Protest at Malaysia Embassy in Jakarta

Published on September 19, 2008 in News and Solidarity. 0 Comments

Anti ISA protest in Jakarta
report in Bahasa Indonesia (pdf)

‘Free Teresa’ parliamentary caucus set up

Published on September 18, 2008 in News and Parliament. 0 Comments

Fauwaz Abdul Aziz | Sep 17, 08 8:01pm
Malaysiakini

Around 50 Pakatan Rakyat MPs came together today and set up a parliamentary caucus aimed at pressuring the government into releasing Seputeh MP Teresa Kok from detention under the Internal Security Act (ISA).

Although the immediate task on the caucus’ agenda was to affect Kok’s release, it also aimed to seek the freedom of all ISA detainees as well as the abolition of the act, which provided for detention without trial, said DAP leader Lim Kit Siang.

“When a member of parliament is held, not only does it affect the liberties of an individual, it affects the system of parliamentary democracy and, thus, the ordinary people, because it is their right to elected representation and spokespersons.
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Teresa Kok’s detention a mistake

Published on September 17, 2008 in News. 0 Comments

by Pushpaneela VN Suppiah | Sep 17, 08 2:16pm
Malaysiakini

I’m very sad and disturbed by the arrest of Teresa Kok under the ISA. The government and the people of Malaysia know that this is a clear misuse of the draconian act to hold her without trial or access to her lawyers.

I am hoping that the government will realise this mistake and release her immediately and charge her fairly in a court of law if the charges against her are valid.

I hope that her supporters and constituents will demand their rights to have their legally elected representative immediately released and tried in a court of law so that the current tarnished name of this country can be repaired.
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Burmese Groups Condemn Arrest of Malaysian MP

Published on September 16, 2008 in News and Solidarity. 0 Comments

By VIOLET CHO Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Burmese opposition groups are protesting the Malaysia government’s recent arrest of an opposition member of parliament, a blogger and a journalist under the Internal Security Act (ISA), which allows for extended periods of detention without trial.

Malaysia authorities arrested Teresa Kok, Malaysia Today blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin and journalist Tan Hoon Cheng of Sin Chew Daily on Friday. Tan Hoon Cheng was released the following day. The others remain in detention.

Burmese opposition leaders condemned the arrests, which included Ms Teresa Kok, a member of parliament representing the Democratic Action Party and the current secretary of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC), a regional advocacy group for democratic change in Burma.
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Tan Hoon Cheng : Cop says I look very steady

Published on September 16, 2008 in News. 0 Comments

By Zubaidah Nazeer, the Electric New Paper
September 16, 2008

THROUGHOUT her 18-hour ordeal of being detained by police, Malaysian reporter Tan Hoon Cheng remained calm, if inwardly concerned about what would happen to her.

So much so that one policewoman said she looked ‘very steady’.

But there was one moment when Miss Tan, 33, was moved to tears.

That was when she saw people lining the road to support her.

Only hours earlier, around 8.30pm on Friday, the police had picked up the Sin Chew Daily reporter from her house in Bukit Mertajam, Penang.

As she was being driven out of the Penang police station, she saw a group of people gathered outside.
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