Lawyers for Liberty
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| Origins | People's Justice Party (Malaysia) |
| Method | "public campaigning, test case litigation and intervention, parliamentary lobbying", research, education |
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Members
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<10 |
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Key people
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N, Surendran, Latheefa Koya, Eric Paulsen, Michelle Yesudas, Melissa Sasidaran |
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Employees
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4 |
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Volunteers
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<10 |
| Mission | human rights and law reform in Malaysia |
| Website | lawyersforliberty |
Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) is a Malaysian human rights and law reform pseudo-NGO with close links to the People's Justice Party (Malaysia). It operates under a shell private limited company by the name of LFL Sdn Bhd. In 2010 it revealed several years' statistics of lethal police shootings in Malaysia and inferred that police had impunity to "murder". In 2011 it commented on the exchange of political refugees with Australia and alleged police harassment of journalists. In 2011 LFL criticised Malaysian authorities' arrest and deportation of the Saudi Hamza Kashgari, who had published three allegedly blasphemous tweets, and filed a habeas corpus affidavit against four Malaysian authorities. LFL claimed that it would try to obtain Kashgari's freedom.
Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) has stated that the federal government of Malaysia and other Malaysian governmental authorities carry out "many unconstitutional, arbitrary and unreasonable decisions and acts". LFL claims to oppose these decisions and acts through "public campaigning, test case litigation and intervention, parliamentary lobbying", research, education.
Lawyers for Liberty consists of volunteer lawyers and activists.
LFL is a pseudo-NGO with close links to People's Justice Party. This can be seen with Latheefa Koya and N. Surendran being key members in the organisation.
In December 2010, Lawyers for Liberty published statistics of fatal police shootings in Malaysia from 2000 to 2009, reporting that there were typically five to 27 fatal shootings per year, with a maximum of 88 deaths in 2009 and a total of 279 over the decade defined as 2000–2009. LFL member N. Surendran interpreted the data as evidence for police "lawlessness", stating, "They know they can commit murder without being called into account and that is a tremendous power to put in the hands of a human being to tell him that go ahead, commit murder, we will protect you."
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