Proposal for human rights court gains traction in Parliament


KUALA LUMPUR: A court or tribunal to hear human rights violation cases is a proposal that could be studied, says M. Kulasegaran (pic).

“Establishing a court specifically for human rights violation cases headed by a judge or chairman with vast experience in the subject would allow such cases to be disposed of in a just and quick manner,” the deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (law and institutional reforms) said in his winding-up speech on the Suhakam annual report in the Dewan Rakyat on Tuesday(July 2).

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