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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
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The Civil Rights Committee -- Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (CRC-KLSCAH), Writers Alliance for Media Independence (WAMI), Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ), Institut Kajian Dasar (IKD), People's Parliament, Sisters in Islam (SIS) and Women's Development Collective (WDC) and Group of Concerned Citizens (GCC) call for the repeal of the Sedition Act and the enactment of a narrowly defined anti-hatred law in its place. Suppression of free speech will not guarantee social harmony, but instead threatens it by obstructing communication, dialogue, debate and understanding. What should be curbed are only speeches and acts that promote hatred which causes or leads to violence directed to individuals on the ground of group membership.
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 |
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The following is the full statement released by Nathaniel Tan, blogger an staff for opposition party PKR, recounting his experience in police detention. Nathaniel was detained on 13 July and police obtained a remand order for four days on July 14. He was investigated under the Official Secret Act (OSA) for a comment posted on his blog which links to an annoymous website accusing the deputy minister of Internal Security of corruption.
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Tuesday, 10 July 2007 |
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On July 9th, an UMNO official, Mohamad Norza Zakaria reportedly called for bloggers who criticizes government leaders to be arrested under the Internal Security Act (ISA). The statement came after blogger Tian Chua, who is also an opposition party leader for the People Justice Party, published a digitally manipulated photo featuring the deputy Prime Minister in a dinner with the look-alike of the murdered Mongolian beauty, Altantuya Sharibuu, and one of the accused Abdul Razak Baginda, who is also the deputy PM's advisor. CIJ supports the Movement to Repeal ISA (GMI) in protesting the call to invoke the law which allows for detention without trial. Read the statement (in BM) here.
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