The freed Malaysian civil rights activist Maria Chin Abdullah received a rapturous welcome when she arrived at Kuala Lumpur’s Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square) last night. Even pouring rain could not dampen the […]
Malaysian civil rights activist Maria Chin Abdullah has been released. Maria Chin, who is the chairwoman of the Bersih 2.0 Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections, was arrested on November 18, the […]
Hundreds of Malaysians are taking part in vigils for the civil rights activist Maria Chin, who is still being held under terrorism legislation and is spending her ninth night in detention. The […]
The Malaysian activist Maria Chin Abdullah, who is being held under legislation intended to be used against terrorists, is spending her seventh night in detention. The civil rights leader is being held […]
The leading Malaysian activist Maria Chin Abdullah is being held in solitary confinement in a windowless cell in an undisclosed detention centre. She has only a wooden board to sleep on, and […]
Tens of thousands of Malaysians braved threats of arrest and menaces from the pro-government Red Shirts and came out onto the streets of the capital, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday (Saturday) to demand fair […]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released another damning report about Malaysia in which it says that the authorities’ abusive use of criminal laws to arrest, question, and prosecute people for peaceful expression […]
Thousands of Malaysian students took to the streets of the capital, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday (Saturday) to demand the identification and arrest of the unnamed “powerful politician” who is cited in a corruption […]
Malaysia’s draconian National Security Council (NSC) Act has come into force today (Monday). The legislation empowers a security council, led by the Prime Minister, Najib Razak, to designate security areas in which […]
As the governments involved in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 warn that the operation in the southern Indian Ocean will be suspended soon if no evidence is found, and the […]
The Malaysian government has gazetted a new piece of legislation that gives sweeping powers to a security council headed by the Prime Minister, Najib Razak. Under the new Act, the security council […]
The Australian authorities say that two pieces of aircraft debris – one discovered in South Africa and one found in Mauritius – are “almost certainly” from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. This […]
The transport ministers of Malaysia and Australia say two pieces of debris found in Mozambique are almost certainly from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. This follows a statement from the authorities in […]
Indigenous villagers in Sarawak, Malaysia, who have retrieved land that was expropriated to make way for a mega-dam, remain jubilant about their victory, but they say their blockades will remain until the […]
Indigenous communities in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo are celebrating a massive victory. The gazettes extinguishing the native rights of ownership of land earmarked for the proposed […]
Indigenous communities in the Malaysian state of Sarawak are celebrating a massive victory. The gazettes extinguishing the native rights of ownership of the land earmarked for the proposed Baram mega-dam and its […]
The international team investigating the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 two years ago today has released a second interim statement. It is very brief, and reveals no new conclusions. The three-page […]
The Malaysian parliament has voted yes to signing and ratifying the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Both houses of parliament are dominated by the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition so the vote is no surprise. […]
Thousands of Malaysians turned out yesterday (Saturday) to protest against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which is to be debated in the Malaysian parliament next week, and is scheduled to be signed […]
Malaysian lawyers and human rights activists continue to condemn in the harshest terms a new Bill that has been pushed through parliament and will give sweeping powers to a security council headed […]
