PETALING JAYA, 12 May 2009: DAP has requested for a meeting with Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein to ask him to revoke the conditions that have been imposed on recently released Hindraf leaders. “If [the Hindraf leaders] are ‘no more a threat to the country’ in the eyes of the home minister, then why […]
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Waytha Moorthy: I shall return
By Deborah LohPETALING JAYA, 11 May 2009: Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) chairperson P Waytha Moorthy will brave the possibility of arrest and return to Malaysia immediately following the release of all five Hindraf lawyers from detention without trial. In a press statement today, Waytha Moorthy, who has been living in self-imposed exile in the UK, said […]
13 ISA detainees freed (Updated 7.33pm)
Updated at 7.33pm, 5 April 2009 R Kenghadharan of Hindraf waving to supporters as he was brought out of Kamunting detention centre at 1.20pm today. Kenghadharan had been under ISA detention since December 2007 (Pic by Raj Kumar, courtesy of theSun) TAIPING, 5 April 2009: All the 13 Internal Security Act (ISA) detainees who were […]
Hindraf duo sent home
By Surin MurugiahKAMUNTING, 5 April 2009: The authorities at the Kamunting detention centre decided this morning to send freed Hindraf duo R Kenghadharan and V Ganabatirau [to] their respective homes. Ganabatirau’s wife B Buvaneswari was informed by an official at the centre at 10.30am of the decision to “see your husband in the house”. She said the […]
Wife of Hindraf ISA detainee thanks Najib
TAIPING, 4 April 2009: B Buvaneswary arrived at the Kamunting Detention Centre near here at 7.30am today, accompanied by her two daughters aged four and 2-1/2 years. “The first thing I want to do is to take my husband for a meal,” she said of V Ganabatirau, one of two leaders of the Hindu Rights […]
Court throws out Uthayakumar’s appeal
PUTRAJAYA, 10 March 2009: Hindraf leader P Uthayakumar’s appeal on his second habeas corpus application to secure his release from detention under the Internal Security Act (ISA) was thrown out by the Federal Court here today on technical grounds. Justices Datuk Nik Hashim Nik Abdul Rahman, Datuk S Augustine Paul and Datuk Hashim Yusoff unanimously […]
