Looks like Singaporeans are getting to be as vocal as Malaysians. Awesomeness with marshmallows! A group of students protested at Speakers Corner recently on the censorship of campus media. Click here and here for more. Also, click here for a proposal on Internet Freedom for Singapore. I also stumbl ...
Blogger “Sammy”, reported to be a 22 year old employee in a Kuala Lumpur advertising firm, was reported to have posted anti-Indian sentiments on her blog,Life is a Drama. The blogger posted her comments after she claimed her mobile phone was stolen by two alleged Indian youths when she was having lu ...
”Many people in the West misunderstand what freedom of expression means. They associate it with the restriction on the power of the government to interfere with the freedom to express oneself,” writes Alvaro Vargas Llosa. An editor of ”Lessons from the Poor” and the director of the Center on Global ...
Former Singaporean citizen and naturalized American, Gopalan Nair, has been sentenced to three months imprisonment for insulting a high court judge on his blog. Newspaper reports that the court, in handing out the sentence, had stated that Gopalan had “scandalised…the judiciary and the administratio ...
I’m thorn… Between freedom of expression and equality. Which one do I want to study? Would it make a difference if I only took Comparative Civil Liberties? I don’t know… I took Human Rights Protection in the UK. An interesting fact is that, if I didn’t have taken CCL, I wouldn’t have taken HRPUK. I’ ...
It appears that Utusan Malaysia has landed itself quite a number of legal problems this year. Karpal Singh has filed a defamation law suit against Utusan in late September. Karpal is pursuing legal redress notwithstanding the newspaper’s apology. Karpal was reported to have said: An apology is only ...
The second habeas corpus application is scheduled to be heard at 9.00 am on 22nd October 2008 at the Shah Alam High Court before Justice Syed Ahmad Helmy bin Syed Ahmad.
By Joel Thurtell Now some people will say I’m nuts for defending a reporter fired for wearing a political t-shirt to a political rally she was covering. I’m talking about the case of Karen Dinkins, fired September 21, 2008 by Detroit radio station WWJ-AM for wearing a Barack Obama t-shirt while cove ...
Kambiz Arman EurasiaNet 06 October 2008 in English на русском Додочони Атоуллох – сардабири табъидии як нашрияи мухолифи давлати Точикистон ва рахбари чунбиши «Ватандор», бо бими ин ки Русия дархости истирдоди Точикистонро хохад пазируфт, Маскавро ба касди Порис тарк кардааст. Атоуллох дар гуфтугу б ...
