Nurul Izzah: Pakatan to table prison and lock-up reforms


  • Nation
  • Thursday, 14 Jun 2018

A file of Nurul Izzah speaking at a fundraising dinner in Kuala Lumpur on Nov 24, 2015. -The Star/AZHAR MAHFOF

KUALA LUMPUR: The Pakatan Harapan government will be tabling a Bill in Parliament to reform prison and police lock-ups said PKR vice president Nurul Izzah Anwar.

"We will be passing on our views to the Institutional Reform Committee while also tabling a Private Members' Bill in the next Parliament sitting on the matter," she told reporters at the pre-launch ceremony of a book entitled 'Tian Chua's - Kajang Dairy : A Prison Retreat' at KLCC Convention Centre here on Thursday (June 14).

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