AICHR press release on transboundary haze pollution and the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment

AICHR | AICHR urged ASEAN Member States to strengthen the implementation of environmental laws and policies addressing activities that contribute to agricultural land, peatland, and forest fires. It stressed the responsibility of business enterprises and non-State actors to respect the right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. Edmund Bon is the Representative of Malaysia to AICHR.

7th ASEAN Workshop on Intersection between Conflict and Human Rights

ASEAN | The Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for ASEAN Political-Security Community, H.E. Dato’ Astanah Abdul Aziz, shared the ASEAN Secretariat’s experience in supporting coordination among ASEAN’s organs, bodies, and mechanisms in developing ASEAN 2045: Our Shared Future. Edmund Bon Tai Soon is the Representative of Malaysia to AICHR.

Ismail Sabri akan fail permohonan cabar tuduhan tidak isytihar harta 

Astro Awani | Peguam Datuk Amer Hamzah Arshad berkata permohonan untuk mencabar pertuduhan tidak mengisytiharkan harta yang dihadapi Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob akan difailkan selepas pihak pembelaan menerima dan meneliti semua dokumen berkaitan kes. Peguam Ismail Sabri termasuk Joshua Tay dan Tan Xu Yin.

Ismail Sabri seeks to challenge charge relating to failure to declare assets

The Star | Lawyer Datuk Amer Hamzah Arshad told the press that the application to challenge the charge against former PM Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob relating to an alleged failure to declare assets would be filed after the defence has received and studied the documents. The lawyers include Joshua Tay and Tan Xu Yin.

Ismail Sabri case: Defence wants to study all documents before making any potential applications

The Edge Malaysia | Former PM Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s lead defence counsel Datuk Amer Hamzah Arshad said he hoped the prosecution can provide complete documents before the next case management, to ensure that any defence application can be filed in advance, but he did not disclose the nature of the potential application. The defence team includes lawyers Joshua Tay and Tan Xu Yin.

Caught in a legal haze

The Star | Edmund Bon, Representative of Malaysia to AICHR, highlights that the haze illustrates the limitations of treating environmental harm as something confined within individual countries. The issue exposes where the non-interference principle breaks down despite ASEAN’s emphasis on unity, respect and collaboration.

AICHR Note on Advancing Human Rights and Peace

AICHR | AICHR emphasises that persistent poverty, inequality, discrimination, exclusion, marginalisation, corruption, unequal access to justice and opportunities, and limited participation in public life heighten tensions and increase the risk of violence and instability. Addressing these underlying conditions is therefore integral to advancing sustainable peace.

MACC officer retracts police report against Muhyiddin’s lawyer; court decides not to cite for contempt

Malay Mail | The High Court decided not to begin contempt of court proceedings against MACC investigation officer Mazery Mohd Zaini, as it accepted his explanation about his MACC colleague’s police report. Muhyiddin’s lawyer Datuk Amer Hamzah Arshad, who was named in the police report, had earlier said he reserved his rights to take legal action against Mazery.

Kes Muhyiddin Yassin — peguam tegaskan dokumen diperolehi secara sah

Sabah Media | Datuk Amer Hamzah Arshad, peguam Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, menegaskan bahawa pernyataan saksi yang dikemukakan dalam perbicaraan jenayah pemimpin itu diperoleh melalui saluran undang-undang yang sah, bukannya dicuri, dibocorkan atau diperoleh secara sulit. Pihak pembelaan Muhyiddin termasuk Joshua Tay dan Tan Xu Yin.

Muhyiddin trial: Lawyer accuses MACC officer of ‘intimidation’ over police report

Malay Mail | Former PM Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s lawyer Datuk Amer Hamzah Arshad today told the High Court that an MACC officer had allegedly attempted to intimidate him and tarnish his reputation as a lawyer, based on the officer’s MACC colleague’s police report. Amer told the High Court that he is considering various legal actions, and reserves all his rights.

MACC officer apologises to Muhyiddin’s lawyer over police report

Free Malaysia Today | A prosecution witness in Muhyiddin Yassin’s corruption trial has apologised to the former PM’s lawyer, Amer Hamzah Arshad, in the High Court for lodging a police report against him. Amer said the report was an attempt to tarnish his reputation and intimidate him, and he will not exclude the possibility of lodging a report against the appropriate person.

MACC officer denies offering immunity to key witness in Muhyiddin’s graft trial

The Edge Malaysia | Defence counsel Datuk Amer Hamzah Arshad suggested that businessman Datuk Azman Yusoff fabricated the meeting with former PM Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to lift an MACC freeze on his corporate bank accounts. Muhyiddin’s legal team includes lawyers Joshua Tay and Tan Xu Yin, and pupil in chambers Michelle Chew.

Key witness in Jana Wibawa trial did not get ‘special treatment’, says MACC officer

The Star | An MACC investigating officer in the graft case involving former PM Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin at the High Court denied that Datuk Azman Yusoff, a key prosecution witness, received “special treatment”. Muhyiddin’s legal team includes lawyers Datuk Amer Hamzah Arshad, Joshua Tay, and Tan Xu Yin, and pupil in chambers Michelle Chew.

Azeez to be released from remand today

Free Malaysia Today | Former Tabung Haji chairman Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim is expected to be released this evening as his remand period was not extended, said his lawyer Amer Hamzah Arshad. Abdul Azeez’s lawyers include Joshua Tay and Tan Xu Yin.

AICHR press release on transboundary haze pollution and the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment

AICHR | AICHR urged ASEAN Member States to strengthen the implementation of environmental laws and policies addressing activities that contribute to agricultural land, peatland, and forest fires. It stressed the responsibility of business enterprises and non-State actors to respect the right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. Edmund Bon is the Representative of Malaysia to AICHR.

7th ASEAN Workshop on Intersection between Conflict and Human Rights

ASEAN | The Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for ASEAN Political-Security Community, H.E. Dato’ Astanah Abdul Aziz, shared the ASEAN Secretariat’s experience in supporting coordination among ASEAN’s organs, bodies, and mechanisms in developing ASEAN 2045: Our Shared Future. Edmund Bon Tai Soon is the Representative of Malaysia to AICHR.

Ismail Sabri akan fail permohonan cabar tuduhan tidak isytihar harta 

Astro Awani | Peguam Datuk Amer Hamzah Arshad berkata permohonan untuk mencabar pertuduhan tidak mengisytiharkan harta yang dihadapi Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob akan difailkan selepas pihak pembelaan menerima dan meneliti semua dokumen berkaitan kes. Peguam Ismail Sabri termasuk Joshua Tay dan Tan Xu Yin.

Ismail Sabri seeks to challenge charge relating to failure to declare assets

The Star | Lawyer Datuk Amer Hamzah Arshad told the press that the application to challenge the charge against former PM Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob relating to an alleged failure to declare assets would be filed after the defence has received and studied the documents. The lawyers include Joshua Tay and Tan Xu Yin.

Ismail Sabri case: Defence wants to study all documents before making any potential applications

The Edge Malaysia | Former PM Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s lead defence counsel Datuk Amer Hamzah Arshad said he hoped the prosecution can provide complete documents before the next case management, to ensure that any defence application can be filed in advance, but he did not disclose the nature of the potential application. The defence team includes lawyers Joshua Tay and Tan Xu Yin.

Caught in a legal haze

The Star | Edmund Bon, Representative of Malaysia to AICHR, highlights that the haze illustrates the limitations of treating environmental harm as something confined within individual countries. The issue exposes where the non-interference principle breaks down despite ASEAN’s emphasis on unity, respect and collaboration.

AICHR Note on Advancing Human Rights and Peace

AICHR | AICHR emphasises that persistent poverty, inequality, discrimination, exclusion, marginalisation, corruption, unequal access to justice and opportunities, and limited participation in public life heighten tensions and increase the risk of violence and instability. Addressing these underlying conditions is therefore integral to advancing sustainable peace.

Kes Muhyiddin Yassin — peguam tegaskan dokumen diperolehi secara sah

Sabah Media | Datuk Amer Hamzah Arshad, peguam Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, menegaskan bahawa pernyataan saksi yang dikemukakan dalam perbicaraan jenayah pemimpin itu diperoleh melalui saluran undang-undang yang sah, bukannya dicuri, dibocorkan atau diperoleh secara sulit. Pihak pembelaan Muhyiddin termasuk Joshua Tay dan Tan Xu Yin.

Muhyiddin trial: Lawyer accuses MACC officer of ‘intimidation’ over police report

Malay Mail | Former PM Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s lawyer Datuk Amer Hamzah Arshad today told the High Court that an MACC officer had allegedly attempted to intimidate him and tarnish his reputation as a lawyer, based on the officer’s MACC colleague’s police report. Amer told the High Court that he is considering various legal actions, and reserves all his rights.

MACC officer apologises to Muhyiddin’s lawyer over police report

Free Malaysia Today | A prosecution witness in Muhyiddin Yassin’s corruption trial has apologised to the former PM’s lawyer, Amer Hamzah Arshad, in the High Court for lodging a police report against him. Amer said the report was an attempt to tarnish his reputation and intimidate him, and he will not exclude the possibility of lodging a report against the appropriate person.

MACC officer denies offering immunity to key witness in Muhyiddin’s graft trial

The Edge Malaysia | Defence counsel Datuk Amer Hamzah Arshad suggested that businessman Datuk Azman Yusoff fabricated the meeting with former PM Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to lift an MACC freeze on his corporate bank accounts. Muhyiddin’s legal team includes lawyers Joshua Tay and Tan Xu Yin, and pupil in chambers Michelle Chew.

Key witness in Jana Wibawa trial did not get ‘special treatment’, says MACC officer

The Star | An MACC investigating officer in the graft case involving former PM Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin at the High Court denied that Datuk Azman Yusoff, a key prosecution witness, received “special treatment”. Muhyiddin’s legal team includes lawyers Datuk Amer Hamzah Arshad, Joshua Tay, and Tan Xu Yin, and pupil in chambers Michelle Chew.

Azeez to be released from remand today

Free Malaysia Today | Former Tabung Haji chairman Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim is expected to be released this evening as his remand period was not extended, said his lawyer Amer Hamzah Arshad. Abdul Azeez’s lawyers include Joshua Tay and Tan Xu Yin.