Journalist Jahabar and Ho should not be held overnight? Rights of suspects...
According to a recent Malaysian Insider report, Jahabar and Ho will have to spend a night in the police lock-up. Why? Will the police be ' doing investigating' overnight? Why not just release them on...
View ArticleStop using Sedition Act says SUHAKAM - Repeal it?
PRESS STATEMENT “THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF MALAYSIA CALLS ON THE AUTHORITIES TO IMMEDIATELY END THE USE OF THE SEDITION ACT 1948” KUALA LUMPUR (3 APRIL 2015) – The Human Rights Commission of...
View ArticleJahabar and Ho released on police bail - but police keeping laptops? After...
So, after keeping them overnight, the police chose not to apply for further remand but rather release Jahabar and Ho on police bail... See earlier post:- Journalist Jahabar and Ho should not be held...
View ArticleBar:- Investigative Powers of the Police Must Not be Abused to Intimidate,...
Press Release | Investigative Powers of the Police Must Not be Abused to Intimidate, Harass, Oppress and Terrorise Thursday, 02 April 2015 04:21pm The Malaysian Bar condemns the police dragnet that has...
View ArticleOppose proposal about 'Protected Witnesses' - Fair and Open Trial at Risk?
Proposed amendment section 7 Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Act 2015 which provides for New sections 265a, 265b and 265c must be opposed.Was it Najib who was the protected witness...or was it...
View Article26 Pakatan MPs who were absent when POTA was passed in Parliament should resign?
26 Pakatan Rakyat was absent during the voting, and this is significant as there are now 86 Pakatan Rakyat Members of Parliament - meaning that if they were there, just 80 of them really, then POTA...
View ArticleAmendments to Sedition Act - removal of judicial discretion? sentencing,...
The whole Sedition Act should be repealed. Looking at the amendments that the government is trying to bring in through Sedition (Amendment) Act 2015, a few MAJOR concerns:-Judicial Discretion In...
View ArticleThe 26 absent MPs need apologize not try to justify absence during voting on...
Members of Parliament must attend each and every Parliamentary session without fail - note the dates of Parliamentary sessions are all informed earlier, and so is the agenda. Save for falling sick, or...
View ArticleSedition Act amendments debate ongoing - are the 26 MPs present??
Well, there have allegedly been some amendments made to the Bill to amend our Sedition Act but not enough. This draconian Act must be repealed. - apparently the no bail clause have been removed- the...
View ArticlePKR MPs, Sim Tze Tzin and Manivannan, being anti-worker? Use worker...
PKR is anti-worker, that is what I see when PKR MPs Sim Tze Tzin and MP G. Manivannanare have been reported saying, amongst others, that they are planning to come up with Private Member Bill to,...
View ArticleMTUC says NO to Malaysia signing agreements that will stagnate or erode...
MTUC says NO to Malaysia signing agreements that will stagnate or erode worker rights 9 April 2015 Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC) is most concerned about the serious implication of Investor...
View ArticleStop interfering with workers' service charge - it is NOT the old service tax...
Wonder whether this whole focus suddenly on 'service charge collected by employers and paid to workers' is nothing more that a distraction GST and related issues... Service Charge is very different...
View ArticleHaving to perform surgery certainly not a good excuse for absent MP? Be a...
When you get elected as a MP, the people's representative, everything else should be put on hold for at least 5 years (the length of your term as MP) - and this includes your current employment,...
View ArticleSedition Act amendment - how many in favour how many against? Transparency?
Was there a vote taken when the Sedition Act was amended? If an MP do not call for it, and 15 others support the call - we will not get a vote -- which will tell us exactly how many voted in favour,...
View ArticleKeep hands off cash from service charges, MTUC tells bosses.
Service Charge is just - well, the tipping system would only benefit the front line employees... but not the others. What is collected now is shared amongst all employees, and this is good....Some are...
View ArticleBR1M - Those who 'stole' RM3.34 million of our money must be charged, tried...
What 3.4 million of BR1M money lost? Who took it? It is easy to allege that it was the people - and the fault was with the Banks - but I wonder. Well, BR1M payments could have been made by directly...
View ArticleAn oppressive, exploitative and worker rights violating government organizing...
Worker and Trade Union Rights have been eroded and not promoted or protected by the UMNO-led government, to the Barisan Nasional government, since our independence in 1957. The British colonial...
View Article11 workers arrested and detained overnight for picketing?
Well, I have been informed that 11 workers are spending the night in police lock-up - Seapark Police Station?These worker were picketing near their place of employment, along Jalan University Petaling...
View ArticleMTUC shocked with the arrest and detention of 11 workers exercising right to...
See earlier post:- 11 workers arrested and detained overnight for picketing? MTUC shocked with the arrest and detention of 11 workers exercising right to picket 24 April 2015 Malaysian Trade Union...
View Article11 picketing workers charged for EXCESSIVE NOISE?
11 workers who picketed charged for 'excessive noise' - this is a laughable. So what, now workers have to picket in silence? - see earlier posts:- 11 workers arrested and detained overnight for...
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