Lawyers for Liberty

This article is about a Malaysian NGO. For the British NGO with a similar name, see Liberty (pressure group).
Lawyers for Liberty
(LFL)
FocusHuman rights and law reform in Malaysia[1]
Location
Method"public campaigning, test case litigation and intervention, parliamentary lobbying", research, education[1]
Members
<10
Key people
N. Surendran, Latheefa Koya, Eric Paulsen
Employees
4
Volunteers
<10
Websitelawyersforliberty.org

Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) is a Malaysian human rights and law reform NGO. In 2010 it revealed several years' statistics of lethal police shootings in Malaysia and inferred that police had impunity to murder.[2] In 2011 it commented on the exchange of political refugees with Australia and alleged police harassment of journalists.[3][4] 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.[5][6] LFL claimed that it would try to obtain Kashgari's freedom.[7]

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