Posted in Parliament, Social on December 19th, 2007 3 Comments »
Today, the Dewan Rakyat debated on amendment to Prison Act, to allow parole system to be implemented as a way to ease congestion in prison. I made my speech after gathering view points from some social workers this morning.
I visited Kajang and Sungai Buloh Prisons together with Senator Datuk Wan Farid in January 2007 [...]
Posted in NGOs, Parliament on December 19th, 2007 No Comments »
The Disabled people from some organisations for the disabled (OKU) have been hanging around in Parliament for about 3 days. They came on the day when Shahrizat presented the bill on Persons With Disabilities 2007 in Dewan Rakyat last Thursday. They then waited till today afternoon then only have chance to observe the MPs [...]
Posted in Announcements on December 19th, 2007 2 Comments »
A forum on ISA arrest of Hindraf Leaders - The 2nd ‘Operasi Lallang’ will be held and meet the family members of the 5 detainees and show that we are with them. Speakers are :
1) A.Sivanesan
2) Lim Kit Siang
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Posted in Parliament, Police on December 19th, 2007 2 Comments »
Dear friends, it was a great relief (for the time being) when we were told that the Special Complaint Commission Bill is to be deferred to next sitting.
This announcement came when the NGOs reps came to present memorandum to MPs and have press conference with the Opposition MPs. As of last night, all participants [...]
