0131 (Monday): “Menurut Pengerusi Pro-M UMSKK, saudara Muhammad Asyraf Che Ani, kesemua yang ditahan telah dibebaskan. Syabas!” So says a tweet by @MsiswaGANYANG.
The eight, who were being held at the Karamusing Police Station, are Fahmi Zainol, Ainullutfi, Asyraf Che Ani, Fathihie, Jamhuri, Fadhil, Nazrin, and Tan Choonan. They were without a lawyer.
While many ordinary people, even the poor, are now burdened with taxes such as GST or VAT, some multinational corporations are channelling billions of dollars through Luxembourg to drastically slash their global tax bills in some cases to an effective tax rate of less than 1 per cent.
The law professor spoke at 11.30pm yesterday at the gates of the campus in Gombak after campus security and police blocked him from entering.
Three of Zunar’s part-time assistants were arrested for selling his cartoon books at the Palace of Justice a couple of days ago during the Anwar trial. (The information released at the time and reported was that his wife was among those arrested – but then his wife was in Port Dickson at the time, so how?! Oops.) The three – Rizaldy, Raja Norita and Norliza Mohd Kassim – were released at midnight.
Ten copies of Pirates of the Carry-BN and 33 copies of Buku Komplot Penjarakan Anwar were seized. (Check out the books.) The books are apparently being investigated under three laws: the Printing Presses and Publications Act, the Penal Code and the Sedition Act.
A few colleagues and I caught up with Zunar over a banana leaf lunch when he was in Penang recently. Check out the T-shirt he was wearing.
The pre-tax loss for the year ended 31 March 2014 of RM670m stands in sharp contrast to its pre-tax profit of RM878 in the previous financial year – a swing of some RM1.5bn.
Gurdial Singh, Ambiga and Maria Chin Abdullah are the speakers at this forum in KL tonight organised by Bersih 2.0. It runs from 8.00pm to 10.30pm.
This documentary by Ross Harrison follows the lives of three Penan as they go about their daily lives.
Residents in some two dozen established settlements in Penang are reportedly facing eviction.
As the Sodomy II trial, reaches a conclusion, what will the outcome be? And how will it reflect on the judiciary and the administration of justice in the country?
It didn’t take long for Indonesia’s new reformist president Jokowi to run into controversy.
Human rights activists have criticised his decision to appoint the former army chief of staff, Ryamizard Ryacudu, as Indonesia’s new defence minister.