A group calling itself Generation 709 held a vigil earlier tonight seeking the immediately release of the six PSM political activists detained without trial under the Emergeny Ordinance. Photograph: mediarakyat
A French lawyer, William Bourdon, is in Penang and will be briefing a crowd of diners on the progress of the judicial investigations into the Scorpene case.
The royal commission of inquiry has ruled that Teoh Beng Hock committed suicide because of relentless pressure from aggressive interrogation by MACC officers.
A group of 365 Catholics and other Christians in Malaysia, including a string of priests and religious, have signed a joint letter to Pope Benedict XVI expressing their concern over Prime Minister Najib Razak’s official visit to the Vatican on 18 July 2011 in view of recent developments in the country.
A shooting range within the grounds of the Penang Botanic Garden is troubling regular garden enthusiasts who see it as incompatible with the surroundings.
Latest on the Bayan Mutiara site. I think the public needs more details about the development and the financing of the land and whether there will be any green space provided for a park.
The day after. The tens of thousands of Malaysians who rallied yesterday in KL have written a new chapter in the nation’s relentless path towards real democracy.
Of all the 200-odd arrests over the last couple of weeks, none is a more glaring instance of injustice than the cruel detention without trial of Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj.
Rais Yatim has said in the Star that Bersih organisers should plan to hold their rally in stadiums in states controlled by Pakatan Rakyat rather than in any of the three KL stadiums, including Merdeka Stadium.
In a Free Malaysia Today report on Ng Yen Yen’s remark that Bersih 2.0 will cost the tourism industry RM1bn in lost gross revenue, there is the following:
“[She told] reporters that the Chinese Tourism Board had sent officials to gauge the stability of Malaysia to ensure it was safe to visit.”
This is something I wrote for Asia Times:
An air of nervousness has hung over Malaysia in sight of a potential confrontation between civil society organizers and pro-government opponents. A ”walk for democracy” planned for July 9 by a coalition of civil society groups known as Bersih 2.0 to campaign for clean and fair elections sparked a government crackdown reminiscent of the country’s old authoritarian ways.