Edmund Bon

new Malaysians will be compelled to celebrate World Human Rights Day in a fashion of protest - by not walking our streets.

The police must re-visit their mode of operation, and take a second look at Suhakam's recommendations.

Law schools are dangerous. They are bad for health. Trees are denied life in abundance as yards of paper are wasted on learning snooty-sounding terms.

Human Rights Day just passed a few days ago. It is an opportunity to reflect on what 'human rights' mean and where does Malaysia stand.

The great hope, post-Squatgate, is that lawmakers will resolve to take serious action and not leave the commission's report gathering cobwebs.

Young lawyers must shake themselves out of their complacency, comfort and move forward. They complain in private but when there are opportunities to make changes, they do nothing.

The appearance of complicity between the judiciary, police, prosecutors and a lawyer in the Anwar Ibrahim sodomy trial shows how the legal process can be abused to produce unfair trials and unsafe convictions.

Athena lives in Romanceland. Tristan lives in Realand. They are both 29 and have been very much in love for five years now.

The state paints a picture of you being a menace to society to bypass your right to trial and packages you as a clear and present threat so that fellow citizens agree to use of the Internal Security Act. All this, says EDMUND BON, flies in the face of humanity.

Visiting the Tham Tin temporary shelter along the Thai-Burma border has been an eye opener for EDMUND BON. He is touched by the way of life and the sufferings of the Karen people.

new The four JI detainees should either be charged or released, says EDMUND BON and it is wrong to showcase human beings in front of nationwide audiences for them to be judged on an unfair basis.

We have been following with interest the sensational trial of the murder of Hasleza Ishak in the Taiping High Court.