Yoon Szu-Mae

The group also refutes a news report which quotes a senior immigration official as claiming that the public had tried to obstruct the officers from carrying out their duties.

A number of local and regional bodies speak out strongly against the state's prosecution of the veteran labour and women's rights activist, and the 12-month sentence passed against her.

Aliran is horrified, Hakam is distressed and Suaram says 'something has gone wrong'. Meanwhile, Amnesty International vows that it will name Irene Fernandez as a prisoner of conscience if she is imprisoned.

The nation's longest-running trial came to a finale today when Irene Fernandez was found guilty of maliciously publishing false news and sentenced to do time for a year.

Irene Fernandez wraps up her three-hour-long closing arguments in defence of the 'false news' charge involving allegations of the 'inhuman' conditions in the immigration detention camps. If the court finds her guilty, Fernandez could face up to three years in prison.

Instead of handing down the judgment today, the court allows Irene Fernandez to personally submit the closing arguments in her defence. This will continue tomorrow, but hearing is not expected to drag on as the magistrate will be leaving the service this Friday.

The sudden announcement by magistrate Juliana Mohamed that she will make her decision on the Irene Fernandez 'false' news' trial tomorrow - five months ahead of schedule - has the defence team hitting the panic button.

Almost all the staff from Maybank's infrastructure services section have decided to accept the additional ex-gratia of one-month's salary - a radical change from when they first began picket action last Thursday.

The wives want Suhakam to initiate a public inquiry into the matter. They also submitted a heap of letters from the detainees about their grouses to the commission.

It has been more than three months since the temple was torched, allegedly aided by the police, but no action has been taken, laments the party's Youth wing.

As Maybank and its infrastructure services staff argue over the fallout from a billion-ringgit outsourcing deal, an affected employee has claimed to have received threatening phone calls.

Keadilan Youth, now known as Angkatan Muda Malaysia, says that unless Asean and the Malaysian government presses the Burmese junta for a clear and specific roadmap to democracy, all else would just be hot air.

Ignoring the problems faced by poor nations and imposing rigid trade liberalisation policies is a recipe for disaster, warns the report.

IT workers say the bank cannot wash its hands from providing adequate compensation to workers as the company's decision to transfer their employment effectively gives them fewer benefits and greater job insecurity.

The eleven union workers were picked up after their employer claimed that the union is trying to sabotage the company.

For the last 15 years, Kathy Scott has been trying to find out what has happened to her accumulated contributions to the Employees Provident Fund (EPF), which have gone missing.

Artistes and theatre lovers have dug their heels in against City Hall's new guidelines for stage performances, arguing that this will basically leave them nothing to talk about.

Union workers want the police to play fair as they investigate Hume's allegations that union workers were attempting to sabotage the factory.

Theatre practitioners want the authorities to explain the reason behind the additional move to vet scripts, and what this means for the performing arts.

In the face of criticism by DAP, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia has distanced itself from a public relations blunder by its deputy chairperson Harun Hashim.

The Malaysia Airlines union has given the management a final chance to eliminate the long-standing gender-based discriminatory provisions in the collective agreement.

Newly-merged Keadilan Youth has filled the vacancy for a secretary in its exco, but the final line-up will be decided at a meeting of the two component parties.

The former MP said it is outrageous for others to now attempt to smear his name and for the Melaka government to claim credit, when he was the one who played a pivotal role in the compensation claims by the Portuguese Settlement fishing community.

They are forced to retire 10 years earlier than their male counterparts and grounded without payment the moment they are pregnant. Yet they contributed to the airline's Best Cabin Crew award for the past three years.