MASS hypocrisy season comes and goes in Malaysia with the regularity of the monsoon or the haze. While we entertain the polite fiction of being a semi-civilised nation with a few shopping malls, we conveniently forget that ours is a political culture mired in the mores and norms of hypocrisy. The public display of normative […]
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Govt nearly defeated in Parliament
By Zedeck SiewKUALA LUMPUR, 22 June 2009: History was almost made when a government motion on the DNA Identification Bill was one vote short of being defeated in Parliament today. A provisional amendment to Sections 2 and 3 of the Bill, proposed by the government, was passed by a sliver-thin one-vote majority. Forty-eight Members of Parliament (MPs) voted […]
Anwar appeals against High Court ruling
KUALA LUMPUR, 6 March 2009: Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim filed an appeal today against the High Court’s order that his sodomy case be tried in the High Court. The notice of appeal filed at the High Court Registry here at 10.40am through SN Nair and Partners. Yesterday, High Court judge Datuk Mohamad Zabidin […]
Judge moves Anwar’s sodomy case to High Court (Updated 3.20pm)
KUALA LUMPUR, 5 March 2009: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy case will be tried in the High Court and not the Sessions Court. High Court judge Datuk Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah made the ruling today in favour of the prosecution which sought to revise the Sessions Court’s decision to retain the trial at the Sessions […]
Transfer decision on Anwar’s sodomy trial on 5 March
Updated 3.45pm KUALA LUMPUR, 26 Feb 2009: Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has to wait until 5 March to know whether his sodomy trial will be retained in the Sessions Court or transferred to the High Court. High Court judge Datuk Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah will decide then on the prosecution’s application for a […]
Let’s talk about sex
By Shanon Shah(Dmytro Konstantynov / Dreamstime) PRESS reports that intimate photos of Elizabeth Wong have been exposed and are circulating have opened up a new can of worms. The discussions so far on the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) politician’s case have revolved around our public leaders’ right to privacy. But if it was merely Wong’s privacy that […]
Azmin’s take on scandals
By Zedeck Siew“We don’t want to know if these are old or new nude pictures. She must explain to us and if she is really guilty of having posed [for] or was involved in the taking of these pictures, we will not hesitate to take action.” Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) vice-president Azmin Ali, commenting on the distribution […]
Anwar wants SG disqualified
KUALA LUMPUR, 5 Feb 2009: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim wants newly-appointed Solicitor-General II Datuk Mohamed Yusof Zainal Abiden, who led the prosecution team in his sodomy case, to disqualify himself from the proceedings. Anwar’s lead counsel, Sulaiman Abdullah, made the application at the High Court today on the grounds that Mohamed Yusof, as an officer […]
Teacher claims trial to sodomising boy
KLANG, 21 Jan 2009: A primary school teacher was charged in the Sessions Court here today with two counts of performing unnatural sex on a 14-year-old boy in August last year. Badrul Akmal Ishak, 30, pleaded not guilty and claimed trial to both the charges. On the first charge, he was alleged to have performed […]
Saiful Bukhari meets Islamic affairs officers
KUALA LUMPUR, 27 Nov 2008: Mohamad Saiful Bukhari Azlan, who alleged he was sodomised by Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, went to the Federal Territory Islamic Affairs (Jawi) office here today. Mohamad Saiful Bukhari, who was accompanied by his father Azlan Mohd Lazim and lawyer Zamri Idrus, arrived at the office […]
