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Nazri: No need for law to protect whistleblowers (The Sun)
Friday, 09 May 2008
KUALA LUMPUR (May 8, 2008): The government does not intend to enact any law to ensure freedom of information or to protect whistleblowers, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz said.

"This is because, under the Official Secrets Act (OSA), an item can be classified as secret but the cabinet meeting can decide to declassify it anytime when necessary," he told Dr Siti Mariah Mahmud (PAS-Kota Raja) in Parliament during question time.

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Syariah court allows convert to renounce Islam (NST)
Friday, 09 May 2008
Tan Ean Huang @ Siti Fatimah Tan Abdullah with lawyer Ahmad Jailani Abdul Ghani.
Tan Ean Huang @ Siti Fatimah Tan Abdullah with lawyer Ahmad Jailani Abdul Ghani.

GEORGE TOWN: In a landmark decision, the Syariah High Court here allowed a Muslim convert to renounce Islam and return to her Buddhist faith.

Syariah High Court judge Othman Ibrahim said the court had no choice but to declare Siti Fatimah Tan Abdullah, whose given name is Tan Ean Huang, no longer a Muslim as she had never practised the teachings of Islam.

He also ordered her conversion certificate to be annulled.
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Drop Charges against Raja Petra and Syed Akbar, Respect Freedom of Speech and Expression
Friday, 09 May 2008

Urgent Appeal: 08 May 2008

 

Drop Charges against Raja Petra and Syed Akbar, Respect Freedom of Speech and Expression

 

Three days ( 6 May 2008 ) after World Press Freedom Day (which fell on May 3), Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin and former banker Syed Akbar Ali have become the first Internet citizens to be charged with sedition.

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