On 22 October 2009 he was appointed to represent Malaysia to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) - the first body of its kind in the Asia Pacific region.
[4] On 13 January 2012, he became a lawyer for the Minister of Information Communication and Culture, Rais Yatim in a defamation suit and contempt of court involving blogger Amizudin Ahmat.
On Jan 31, 2011, Rais, 69, filed a suit against Amizudin, 42, who is also a member of the Angkatan Muda Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) committee in relation to an article published in the sharpshooterblogger.blogspot.com blog, on or around December 28, 2010.
The contents of his letter were revealed in the Dewan Rakyat by Datuk Saifuddin Nasution Ismail (PKR-Machang) while debating the Penal Code (Amendment) Bill 2012.
[9] Dato 'Seri Anwar Ibrahim had three times tried to drop Shafee from the prosecution on the grounds of disqualification, conflict of interest and breach of ethics, but without success.
Former president of the Bar Council, Dato 'Ambiga Sreenevasan stated that it had never happened before for a public prosecutor to blame the accused after the court made a decision.