Charles Hector

LETTER | Detention without trial laws do not allow victims to challenge the reasons for their detention and violates their human rights.

COMMENT | Findings would determine if deaths in police shooting incidents were in compliance with the law. 

LETTER | Delay prejudices many accused persons whose trial commenced before the abolition becomes law.

LETTER | Police restrictions of human rights, including freedom of expression, is wrong.

LETTER | Charge THEM in court rather than internal ‘secret’ disciplinary actions.

The rights and protection that can be given to refugees and asylum seekers seems to be based on an unwritten policy.

LETTER | Madpet urges gov't to table necessary bill, so that Sirul Azhar Umar can return to give evidence.

COMMENT | Prioritising the needs of corporations over that of workers is wrong.

LETTER | Harapan needs to keep the promise made in its manifesto.

LETTER | These laws undermine freedom of expression and opinion. 

LETTER | If the release of Anwar can be expedited, then that of M'sians detained under anti-freedom laws can be too. 

COMMENT | Existing labour laws do not sufficiently protect the rights of the workers, and may even bring injustice to them. 

COMMENT | Death penalty or not, drug cases are on the rise and a rehabilitation-centric policy is needed.

LETTER | Draconian laws like Sosma that infringe on the right to a fair trial must be repealed immediately. 

COMMENT | The DDA amendment to abolish mandatory death penalty and return sentencing discretion to judges has too many flaws.

FEATURE | The labour movement will only have a future if workers fight for it.

FEATURE | Increasingly assertive Malayan workers trigger a crackdown by the colonial gov’t.

FEATURE | The advent of worker struggle in colonial Malaya can be traced back to the 1920s.

LETTER | Detention without trial laws are draconian laws that have no place in society. 
 

FEATURE | The degeneration of the labour movement can only be understood in its historical context.

There are concerns that S Prabagaran, who will be executed this Friday, was not given a fair trial. 

'The Immigration Act is similar to other draconian laws like the Poca and Pota'.

Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture (Madpet) is shocked that the public prosecutor may be considering a proposal to deny bail for repeat offenders of small drug-related crimes that carry the penalty of five years’ imprisonment or less.

Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture (Madpet) is shocked to find out that two Malaysians have been subjected to detention without trial for allegedly over 10 years in the United States of America’s infamous detention facility in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.(FMT News, Jan 7, 2017).