Environmental groups in Indonesia have called on the country’s forestry and environment ministry to reject plans to construct a geothermal plant in one of the world’s most precious areas of rainforest. A […]
The Malaysian government has gone on a binge of prosecutions of critics and is using broad and vaguely worded laws to criminalise peaceful expression, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says in a new […]
The lower house of the Malaysian parliament has passed amendments to the 1948 Sedition Act that have been condemned by lawyers and human rights organisations as a further assault on fundamental liberties. […]
The lower house of the Malaysian parliament has passed a controversial anti-terrorism Bill, which the government says is needed to combat the threat from Islamic extremists, but critics say is a grievous […]
The Malaysian cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Haque, better known as Zunar, has been released on bail after being charged with nine counts of sedition for allegedly insulting the judiciary in tweets about the […]
Outrage is growing in Malaysia over the continued wave of arrests, which has now extended to the media. Three editors from The Malaysian Insider (TMI) news portal were arrested yesterday, and executives […]
Police in Malaysia have raided the headquarters of the opposition Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR, or People’s Justice Party). They were searching for evidence to back up the allegation that the MP for […]
The planned Kita Lawan (“We fight”) rally went ahead yesterday in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur despite a warning by the country’s police chief that participants would be arrested. It went off […]
Two Malaysian MPs, Rafizi Ramli and Chua Tian Chang – better known as Tian Chua – have been arrested prior to a major protest rally in Kuala Lumpur today (Saturday). A third […]
Six people have been arrested during a sit-in at Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square) in central Kuala Lumpur. They include two Perak state assemblymen who are reported to have been assaulted by police. […]
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