NGOs against book-banning say it with postcards


  • Nation
  • Tuesday, 09 Dec 2008

PUTRAJAYA: A group of 10 non-governmental organisations, including Sisters in Islam (SIS), Suaram and representatives from Bar Council, handed some 1,000 postcards protesting the banning of books to the Home Ministry here on Tuesday.

SIS senior programme manger Maria Chin Abdullah said the postcards were collected from September onwards and bore the signatures of people voicing their protest over the bans.

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