REFSA Rojak: Crisps of the Week (27 Apr – 3 May)
The crunch on police brutality, gagged press, minimum wage and the parting of two airlines.
The crunch on police brutality, gagged press, minimum wage and the parting of two airlines.
Hafidz Baharom’s account of a supposedly ‘illegal rally’ supported by the King but not the police.
Persecution of Ambiga Sreenevasan, Maria Chin Abdullah and female detainees are signs of a state that preys on women!
It has been a year since Aminul Rasyid Amzah was killed by the police. Until today, there is no official apology from the police and the case is still in court.
At the Penang leg of the recent nationwide anti-ISA vigil, a 3rd kind of politics was encountered upon – a kind that imposes their ways through threats, violence, and brute force.
A civilian reporter, documents in writing and video the grossly disproportionate use of force by the police to stop people from peacefully gathering at last Sunday’s anti-ISA candlelight vigil in PJ. 29 people were arrested with the use of another oppressive law for demonstrating against a draconian law.
In response to lawyer, Amer Hamzah Arshad being manhadled and briefly arrested by police outside court last week, come Wednesday 31st March at 12pm, lawyers will deliver a Memorandum of Protest to the IGP at Bukit Aman. All are welcome to join in this peaceful protest against police brutality and preventive detention laws.
GMI, thank the police – you would never have got this kind of publicity with a proper police force cognizant of their role in a democracy.
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