“A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies,” so say Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their joint pamphlet titled The Communist Manifesto first published in…
In the Press Release of the President of the Malaysian Bar, Christopher Leong on 15 January 2015, he on behalf of the Bar Council asserted a defence of Eric Paulsen of Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) for his tweet “JAKIM is promoting extremism every Friday. Government needs to address that if serious about extremism in Malaysia”…
PRESS STATEMENT 12 JANUARY 2024 WE, the Centre for Human Rights Research and Advocacy (CENTHRA) and Concerned Lawyers for Justice (CLJ) condemn in the strongest terms the highly provocative, outrageous as well as downright false tweet by Eric Paulsen of Lawyers For Liberty (LFL) suggesting that the Islamic Development Department of Malaysia (JAKIM) is responsible…
“Restrictions are a necessary part of the ‘right’ and in many countries of the world freedom of speech and expression is, in spite of formal, safeguards, seriously restricted in practice.” – Raja Azlan Shah J, PP v. Ooi Kee Saik In a populist country, it does not matter whether a government’s decision is right or…
1. The concept of free speech – or the freedom to express words as well and deeds in accordance with one’s own will and belief and conscience – has a long history. Some say that the seed of such an idea runs back thousands of years ago, way back during the time of the ancient…
