PETALING JAYA: The founder of Borneo Komrad, Mukmin Nantang, and four others were detained at Pulau Bodhgaya, Semporna, earlier today.

PETALING JAYA: The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) has called for the immediate suspension of all eviction operations and activities against the Bajau Laut community in Semporna after a recent fact-finding mission to the Sabah district.

Kota Kinabalu: Ketua Menteri Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor telah mengarahkan semua ketua dan jabatan yang berkaitan untuk mengambil tindakan tegas dan pantas dalam menangani isu-isu semasa yang belaku di negeri ini seperti isu masyarakat Pala’u dan banjir.

KUNAK: Community leaders in Kampung Kunak Tiga are calling for increased control and monitoring of squatter settlements in the area’s waters, particularly those of the Pala’u or Bajau Laut community. .

PETALING JAYA: A rights group said the sedition probe against a Sabah-based activist who highlighted the plight of the indigenous Bajau Laut community demonstrates the urgent need to abolish the law.

PETALING JAYA: An activist who highlighted the plight of the indigenous Bajau Lau community was arrested by Sabah police today, a move that was criticised by a local chapter of an international rights group.

Kota Kinabalu: Police have summoned activist Mukmin Nantang for questioning, believed to be over his recent comments on the controversial Bajau Laut evictions in Semporna.

Kota Kinabalu: The Federal Government must move beyond rhetoric and take concrete steps to address the historical and ongoing injustices faced by the people of Sabah and Sarawak, said Defenders for Ancestral Land (MOPOT) president Andrew Ambrose.

KUNAK: Pusat Pembangunan Minda Insan (PPMI) has offered to help the Government deal with social issues involving the Bajau Laut community.

PETALING JAYA: Former law minister Zaid Ibrahim today called for the Bajau Laut community to be recognised as Sabahans and Malaysians through the provision of blue identity cards.