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PETALING JAYA: The Prisons Department has the sole discretion to decide whether or not to allow jailed MP Datuk Seri Najib Razak to attend Parliament, say senior lawyers.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 4): DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang said if convicted former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak can attend Parliament while in prison, the Home Ministry will have to explain why it barred 11 DAP MPs from attending Parliament when detained under the Internal Security Act during Operation Lalang.

PUTRAJAYA (June 18): Former Internal Security Act (ISA) detainee Yazid Sufaat and another man who had been acquitted of promoting terrorism in Syria may have to return to court again to answer the charges after all. This comes as the Court of Appeal today ordered the High Court to proceed with the trial of Yazid and Muhammad Hilmi Hasim, who was charged with abetting Yazid. Court of Appeal Judge Datuk Seri Abu Samah Nordin, who led a three-member bench, overturned the acquittal by the High Court...

Nor Azrina Surip shares about balancing between being a mother and lawmaker. 

(Archived document, may contain errors) November 9 1979 LA TIN AMERICAN TERRORISM THE CUBAN CONNECTION INTRODUCTION The fall of the Somoza govern ment in Nicaragua to the Sandi nista guerrilla forces (FSLN, Sandinista Front for National Liberation) and their foreign collaborators in July, 1979, has raised concern throughout the Western hemisphere that similar insurgency movements in other Latin Ame rican countries could lead to the weakening or overthrow of their governments as well.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 — DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang has revealed that his hopes and aspirations for Malaysia to be “a nation of Malaysians” have not changed with the passage of...

DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang has revealed that his hopes and aspirations for Malaysia to be “a nation of Malaysians” have not changed with the passage of time

Singapore News - Nearly 85 per cent of those detained under the Internal Security Act - 78 of the 92 - have been released and reintegrated into society since 2002. Minister for Law and Home Affairs K. Shanmugam said on Saturday that the remaining 14 were detained more recently and... Read more at www.tnp.sg

The remaining 14 were detained more recently and they too are expected to be released in due course, said Mr Shanmugam. Read more at straitstimes.com.

After four years of trenchant denials and legal obfuscation, former Prime Minister Najib Razak, the star of Malaysia's leading political family, this week became the first leader of his country to be jailed - a humiliating downfall for a proud figure now enmeshed by corruption charges. His ranks of critics said it was just deserts for a 69-year-old whose greed...