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21 Sep 2018, 8:29 am
The post Additional charges leveled against former Malaysia PM appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. [read post]
15 Mar 2022, 7:53 am
The post Australia and the Netherlands file suit against Russia over Malaysia Air crash appeared first on JURIST - News. [read post]
2 Feb 2024, 11:28 am
News agency CNA revealed Wednesday that the top pardons board in Malaysia halved former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s 12-year sentence for corruption, embezzlement and money laundering through Malaysia’s state-owned 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 9:00 am
On November 30, 2011, the Indonesian government announced an end to the moratorium.... [read post]
10 Feb 2006, 5:29 am
[JURIST] The government of mainly-Muslim Malaysia has imposed a blanket ban on the controversial caricatures of Muhammad [JURIST news archive], making it an offense to publish, import, produce, manufacture, circulate, distribute or even possess the cartoons originally printed in a Danish newspaper in September and since republished in newspapers around the world. [read post]
10 Oct 2019, 8:18 am
“Amnesty International’s research shows why this government must now honour its pledge to abolish this ultimate cruel and inhumane punishment without delay. [read post]
23 Oct 2020, 9:21 am
The settlement agreement calls for the bank to pay over $1 billion: a disgorgement of over $600 million to the Government of Malaysia and 1MDB and a civil penalty of $400 million to the SEC. [read post]
26 May 2007, 11:33 pm
Hundreds of Indonesian workers are facing execution or death sentences in neighbouring Malaysia, but their government's efforts to save them have been hampered by its own stance on drug offences.Erman Suparno, Manpower and Transportation Minister, said his government had provided legal assistance to 279 workers either on death row or facing possible capital charges, according to a report in The Jakarta Post on 26 May.He said 95 per cent were convicted, on trial or… [read post]
25 Nov 2018, 8:18 pm
Source: The Straits Times (13 November 2018)https://www.straitstimes.com/world/malaysias-cabinet-decides-to-end-death-penalty-for-33-offencesKUALA LUMPUR (BERNAMA) - Malaysia's Cabinet has reached a consensus that the death penalty for 33 offences as provided for under eight Acts of law should be abolished, including Section 302 of the Penal Code, which pertains to murder, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Liew Vui Keong said on Tuesday (Nov 13).He said the… [read post]
10 May 2011, 7:16 am
In Malaysia, Bernama reported yesterday that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has ordered an investigation of reports that a newspaper, Utusan Malaysia, carried a front page report last Saturday quoting two blogs that said a meeting had taken place between Christian leaders who want Christianity to be an additional official religion in Malaysia. [read post]
16 Jul 2007, 11:32 am
U.S. lawyers should appreciate the rights we have to question government practices through blogs. [read post]
15 Nov 2018, 1:28 pm
The post Wife of ousted Malaysia PM formally charged with corruption appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. [read post]
27 Oct 2023, 7:05 am
Malaysia has taken a firm stance on the Israel-Hamas war. [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 1:23 pm
Amnesty International has joined other human rights organizations in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing concern over Malaysia’s actions Claudia Vandermade contributed to this post. [read post]
16 May 2018, 2:28 pm
The political cycles in Malaysia run astonishingly fast. [read post]
21 Jul 2008, 12:34 pm
[JURIST] The Malaysian government will table a bill at the August parliamentary session that would require criminal suspects to submit to DNA testing, according to a Monday report in the newspaper Nanyang Siang Pau [media website, in Malay]. [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 4:58 pm
[JURIST] The Malaysian government on Monday introduced a bill [text, PDF] that would set up a committee to discipline judges who violate the country's judicial ethics code. [read post]
10 Dec 2008, 12:38 pm
[JURIST] The Malaysian government has released six terror suspects, including Yazid Sufaat [GlobalSecurity profile] who allegedly gave assistance to the 9/11 attackers [JURIST news archive], according to a Wednesday statement from Malaysian Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar. [read post]
25 Nov 2018, 8:22 pm
"The government must not take a blanket approach to deal with death row inmates upon abolition," the Anti-Death Penalty Coalition of Malaysia, a civil society group formed last month, said in a statement. [read post]
28 May 2020, 1:15 pm
But the story of how Malaysia’s ruling party passed the act, and how Malaysian civil society pushed back against it, is a useful case study on how illiberal governments can use the language of countering disinformation to clamp down on free expression, and how the way democratic governments talk about disinformation has global effects. [read post]
