• Indian marginalisation clear-and-present
  • H Lee
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  • So Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar – in a decision, as he puts it, of self-sacrifice for the sake of protecting society – has banned Hindraf.

    Similar home ministerial valour must have been present when he chose to detain Raja Petra, Teresa Kok, Tan Hoon Cheng and hundreds of others under the ISA.

    • Engage Hindraf now before 'Chindraf' comes
    • Shanti: I stayed in police station in protest
    • Understand, not punish Hindraf
    • Home minister 'extremist, a liar'
    • Child, mother freed, 10 remanded
    • Uthaya's niece, 11 others held
    • Q&A: Home ministers 'burn' themselves for society
    • Syed Hamid defends Hindraf ban
    • Hindraf reveals 'proof' of passport revocation
    • Another ban, another loss for expression
    • The professional-production worker divide
    • Lack of information forces inference and assumption