Kim Quek on challenging the ban on “The March to Putrajaya”
A press statement from Kim Quek, author of banned book “The March to Putrajaya” on why he is mounting a challenge on the legitimacy of the ban and seizure of his book.
A press statement from Kim Quek, author of banned book “The March to Putrajaya” on why he is mounting a challenge on the legitimacy of the ban and seizure of his book.
The LoyarBurok Defence Team (i.e. LoyarBurokkers) is acting for Zunar and Malaysiakini in challenging the recent book bans, and will see Fahri Azzat, Amer Hamzah Arshad, Edmund Bon, Edward Saw, K. Shanmuga and Aston Paiva going toe-to-toe with the Government’s lawyers in an attempt to push the frontiers of YOUR free speech in Malaysia.
Spurred by the recent reporting of the underage “marriage” of an 11-year old girl to a 41-year old man in Kelantan, Malaysia, this is a deliberation on principles for ethical reporting on children, or rather the lack of it, and the child’s rights and welfare.
This article was to be published in Sin Chew Jit Poh on the 9th March 2010. Instead it fell victim to the oft-wielded Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984, which incidentally is the subject of this spiked article.
The grounds of decision of Ariff Yusof J in upholding the ban on K. Arumugam’s Tamil book, “March 8″ regarding the violent clashes in Kampung Medan on 8th March 2001.
The grounds of decision of Ariff Yusof J in the SIS book banning case.
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