<p><span>FORUM-ASIA) and Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) called for an urgent intervention regarding the massive arrests of the Burmese asylum seekers and refugees in Malaysia in its open letter to Dato&#39; Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the Prime Minister of Malaysia. </span></p>

<p>about 15 student activists and young activists under the banner of the Youth and Human Rights NGOs network gathered in front of the government house calling for the end to the consideration of<a href="news.php?id=67"> the Internal Security Act (ISA),</a> and burnt a effigy copy of the ISA as the sign to protest the draft act. </p>

<p>Charoen Wat-aksorn was a well-known activist who, together with people of Bo Nok and Ban Krood, relentlessly fought coal-fired power plant projects in Prachuab Kirikan, until the government decided to relocate the projects to other provinces. &nbsp; After that, he still continued to obstruct local influential figures from encroaching common lands for prawn farming.</p>

<p><a href="news.php?id=67">The draft ISA</a> passed by the cabinet last week alerts many human rights groups on the speculation that this act will give excessive powers to the military, and primarily to the Director of the ISOC and the Army Chief. According to this draft act, the Army Chief in position will take up the post of the director of ISOC.</p>

<p>A&nbsp;member of the National Legislative Assembly (NLA)<span> </span>expressed his comments about <a href="news.php?id=67">the draft of the Internal Security Act (ISA)</a> which is to be examined in line with the draft of the Southern Boarder Provincial Administrative Center (SBPAC) Act.</p>

<p><strong>Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: </strong>Over 200 asylum-seekers and UNHCR-recognized refugees from Burma have been rounded up and taken into custody after early morning immigration raids today conducted by Malaysia&#39;s controversial People&#39;s Volunteer Corps (RELA) in Kuala Lumpur neighborhoods. </p>

<p><span>Chulalongkorn</span><span> </span><span>University </span><span>authorities are attempting to victimise the anti-military junta academic, Associate Professor Giles Ji Ungpakorn. </span></p>

<p>On June 17, Assembly of the Poor (AOP) gathered at the Oct 14 Memorial to condemn the Council for National Security for its meddling in the government's decision to close the Pak Mun dam's sluice gates.</p>

<p>For over the last ten years, Prachuab Kirikan&#39;s Thab Sakae district has been relatively peaceful, despite heated conflicts on coal-fired power projects in adjacent districts Ban Krood and Bo Nok. </p>

<p>In a move human rights activists hailed as a step backward, the Constitution Drafting Assembly (CDA) voted Tuesday in favour of a constitution clause that allowed authorities to arrest, detain and conduct personal search without court warrant. </p>

<p><span>The Community Organisation Development Assemby has proposed the Community Organisation Council Bill to the Cabinet on June 5, through the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security. The bill is now under the consideration of the Council of State after the Interior Ministry opposed the bill saying it overlap with works of the local administrative organizations.</span> </p>

<p>Piyasavasti Amarananda has refused to purchase power to be generated by Salween dams from the Burmese junta, saying the current government would not seek sources of energy in Myanmar.</p>