Archive for December 2008
Operation Lalang revisited: A call for the repeal of ISA
Posted by: hrforall on: December 22, 2008
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Because of its deployment of the ISA as a political tool, Malaysia will always remain a “quasi” or semi-democracy, says Johan Saravanamuttu.
Aliran
The continued detentions of the five Hindraf lawyers under the ISA and blogger Raja Petra Kamaluddin in 2008 under the Abdullah Badawi government is one of the most cynical acts of this so-called [...]
Experience of detention without trial
Posted by: hrforall on: December 18, 2008
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They stripped me of everything, starting with my own clothing, and my rights as a human being, recalls Lim Chin Chin of her ISA detention during Operation Lalang.
I tossed and turned upon the wooden board, unable to close an eyelid. I became aware that torture in prison is not inflicted by means of the [...]
Teater Bilik Sulit
Posted by: hrforall on: December 17, 2008
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Picked up this from Haris (People’s Parliament) and Laila’s (Hitam Merah) blogs.
Teater Bilik Sulit is a play that features the untold true accounts of the nature of Police interrogation of the ISA detainees which are based on testimonials of those who used to be detained under the ISA.
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In conjunction with the International Human Rights [...]
Surviving a nightmare in Kuala Lumpur
Posted by: hrforall on: December 17, 2008
Gay Rights Speech
Posted by: hrforall on: December 16, 2008
You know I never had my eyes teary for years now, that was until I read this brilliant speech by this young and courageous girl Gabrielle Chong, delivered at the Malaysian Bar Council, Bar Council Human Rights Public Speaking Competition 2008 finals on 12 Dec 2008.
Gabrielle Chong, who spoke passionately about the rights of homosexuals and [...]
Keynote speech by Datuk Zaid Ibrahim – “Human Rights – Unplugged”
Posted by: hrforall on: December 12, 2008
A very good evening to
Dato’ Ambiga Sreenevasan, President of the Bar Council
Mr. Andrew Khoo, Deputy Chair, Human Rights Committee
Mr. Bertrand-Xavier Asselin, Second Secretary, Political, Economic and Public Affairs section, High Commission of Canada
Representatives of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Nina Shaharuddin, The Asia Foundation
Datuk Dr. Chiam Heng Keng, SUHAKAM Commissioner
Ladies and gentlemen
1. Human Rights- Unplugged. In the [...]
Why Malaysia needs the ISA
Posted by: hrforall on: December 12, 2008
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By Wong Chin Huat
editor@thenutgraph.com
10 Dec 2008 at 10.00am
NO, your eyes do not fool you. Nor have I been visited by Special Branch officers and “turned over”.
I was at the Petaling Jaya Civic Centre car park Sunday night, 7 Dec 2008, attending the weekly anti-Internal Security Act (ISA) gathering. A passionate speaker lamented that there were [...]
Human rights: what’s stopping Malaysia?
Posted by: hrforall on: December 12, 2008
Source : The Nut Graph
10 Dec 08 : 8.00AM
By Elizabeth Looi and Shanon Shah
elizabethlooi@thenutgraph.com,shanonshah@thenutgraph.com
Eleanor Roosevelt reading the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Spanish text
(source: wikipedia.org)
“MALAYSIA has only signed two out of the eight core international human rights treaties,” says Alice Nah, National Human Rights Society (Hakam) executive committee member.
“As time goes on, [...]
Human Rights and Wrongs
Posted by: hrforall on: December 10, 2008
Dean Johns
As a human who happens to write, I most of all love to write in support of human rights. It’s the worthiest possible cause. It puts me in the best possible company. And it gives me at least a grain of hope that I can help right some human wrongs.
Suaram’s 2008 Human Rights Award Goes to HINDRAF and the Penans
Posted by: hrforall on: December 10, 2008
The now-banned Hindu Right Action Force (Hindraf) and Penan activists of the Ulu Baram area in Sarawak have won Suaram’s 2008 Human Rights Award.
The annual award, presented since 1999, was given to the two rights groups for their unique achievements in highlighting concerns of their communities.
The judges were Irene Xavier a former Internal Security Act [...]
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