Archive for September 9th, 2007

Malaysian police fire opposition gathering

Posted on September 9, 2007. Filed under: Human Rights, malaysia |

Malaysia police fire on opposition rioters | International | Reuters
Malaysian police fire tear gas to break up opposition gathering – Print Version – International Herald Tribune
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Malaysian police fire tear gas to break up opposition gathering – Print Version – International Herald Tribune
Malaysian police fire tear gas to break up opposition gathering
The Associated Press
Sunday, September 9, [...]

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Firing Democracy in Malaysia

Posted on September 9, 2007. Filed under: Human Rights, konstitusi, malaysia |

=Is law capable of constraining the exercise of social and political power? To think law as capable of such constraint is to adopt a from of fetishism–to be guilty of regarding a human creation as thought it were an independent power capable of controlling those who in fact have created and sustained it. ..individuals who [...]

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Lina Joy: shariah, constitution & human rights

Posted on September 9, 2007. Filed under: Apostasy, Melayu, konstitusi, malaysia, pluralism, religious freedom, shariah |

Aliran – Merdeka, modernity and the Lina Joy controversy
Merdeka, modernity and the Lina Joy controversy
Friday, 07 September 2007
Francis Loh looks at the controversy surrounding the competing civil-sharia jurisdictions in the light of the Lina Joy decision and other recent similar cases as well as the forthcoming 50th Merdeka celebrations.
Aliran – Status, rights and responsibilities: [...]

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