Who wants to be free? Who wants to be rid of the lies, deceit and oppression of the Alliance/National Front government? Well, certainly not those who dance to the tune of the posturer and pretender Zaid Ibrahim, former Umno man and ex-leader of the reactionary Muslim Lawyers Association. At a time when a small and beleagured opposition and civil society stood valiantly against despotic…
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 — The Malaysian Bar Council demanded today that Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) withdraw its threat against ex-airman N. Tharmendran’s lawyer. The Bar Council President Ragunath Kesavan said in a statement that the RMAF had crossed the line when it interfered and gave intimidating “advice”. “The RMAF’s blatant demand that lawyer…
As expected, Malaysian cops tortured K Selvachandran, an eyewitness to police brutality whom they have now remanded for 60 days under the Dangerous Drugs Act (DDA- Special Preventive Measures). “He was beaten, kicked and punched on his chest by the police. He is now having some hearing problem after he was badly assaulted on the…
UPDATED More than a hundred people gathered around the front of the police headquarters in Bukit Aman on Saturday to protest the abduction of K Selvanchandran, who was beaten in front of his wife and children before being dragged away by several policemen on Monday night. For 5 days until this morning’s protest, the police…
About 80 people staged a noisy protest in front of Bukit Aman, demanding the detainee’s release. A noisy protest in front of the national police headquarters staged by around 80 people forced the disclosure that a key witness to a police custody death had been detained for alleged drug offences. bukit aman protest against selvachandran…
Lawyers acting for the wife of K Selvachandran, an eyewitness to a police beating that resulted in the death of a suspect are pressing the panic button because after 4 days, the police are still refusing to divulge where he has been taken to.
“This looks and sounds like an abduction. We demand that the police cease this illegal conduct and release K Selvachandran immediately,” Lawyers for Liberty spokesperson Latheefa Koya told Malaysia Chronicle. The 30-year old Selva was a key witness in the inquest of R Gunasegaran, who died while in police custody. In a decision that provoked public outrage, the Coroner returned an open verdict on Monday although Selva and three others had seen a police officer beat Guna unconscious.
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Pengenalan Penurunan prestasi PDRM secara berterusan ke arah tidak memperdulikan undang-undang dapat dilihat dengan jelas dalam peristiwa penangkapan dan pemukulan K. Selvach Sathiran pada 25 Oktober lalu. Dia dipukul dan ditangkap oleh sekumpulan lelaki berpakaian biasa yang mendakwa diri mereka sebagai anggota polis yang tidak memperkenalkan diri mereka secara jelas. Selvach merupakan salah seorang saksi…
Bukit Aman, 30 October 2010 Introduction The continuing descent of the PDRM into lawlessness has been graphically demonstrated by the 25 October beating and abduction of K. Selvach Santhiran by men in plainclothes claiming to be police personnel who did not properly identify themselves. Selvach was one of the key witnesses who testified against the…
N. Surendran of Lawyers for Liberty was today served at his office with a letter from the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) claiming Tharmendran was still on active duty until May 28 next year.
The letter, signed by Lieutenant-Colonel Mohd Razif Ramli on behalf of the air force chief, demanded that Surendran advise Tharmendran to hand himself in to armed forces personnel within seven days or face potential criminal proceedings under Section 135 and 136 of the Penal Code.
“Please take notice, we hereby demand that you advice Sgt U. Tharmendran a/l Nagarajah to hand himself in… to any Team/UniU Formation ATM (Malaysian Armed Forces) within seven days of this letter’s date,” the letter said.
Dalam afidavitnya, Tharmendran selaku pemohon mendakwa dia telah diseksa dan dakwaan tersebut disokong oleh rakannya, Intan Yusof, 46, yang mendakwa melihat kejadian seorang tahanan diseksa semasa melawat tertuduh di penjara.
Norazan dan Md Amin dalam afidavit mereka pula menafikan dakwaan bahawa mereka yang melakukan perbuatan itu.
Tharmendran diwakili peguam Latheefa Koya dan N. Surendran sementara pendakwaan diwakili Timbalan Pendakwa Raya Ishak Mohd Yusof.
Lawyer N.Surendran who is acting for Air Force Sergeant N.Tharmendran in the jet engine theft case is now being threatened with criminal proceedings by the RMAF Chief. This is as a result of the position taken by Tharmendran that his service with the air force has ended on 28.5.10. The air force’s own documents show that his service had…
The continuing descent of the Malaysian police force into lawlessness has been graphically demonstrated by the October 25th abduction and beating of K.Selvachandran by police personnel. Selvachandran was a key witness who testified against the police in the recently concluded R.Gunasegaran inquest. On the very day the verdict was delivered in the inquest, police moved against Selvachandran. When Selva’s children asked police why their…
When my hand-phone alarm woke me at 5am this morning, it was with reluctance and a heavy heart that I opened my eyes. At the back of my mind the whole weekend was my 11am interview or interrogation by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission.
And true enough, it turned out not to be a pleasant experience.
Less than 10 minutes into the meeting at the MCMC headquarters in Cyberjaya, my lawyer Latheefa Koya was ‘booted out’ from the room by none other than the director of the enforcement department, who personally came to ‘collect’ her.
And in doing so, he denied me of my fundamental right to legal representation.
Now, those of you who know Latheefa will know what a brave person she is and how very vocal she can be. But perhaps sensing my nervousness, she helped to restore calm to my troubled thoughts after she had argued for many minutes with the MCMC officials.
Surely the issue cannot be that the lawyers and pupils were “only detained for a few hours” as I was made to understand. The real issue is that constitutional and human rights have been violated and that this incident is not the case of a few bad apples but rather a wider and serious problem of the PDRM’s contempt for the Constitution and human rights and the role played by lawyers.
How does that reflect on the Bar Council and its various committees when nothing is offered to these lawyers and pupils other than a press statement? What message is being sent to them and other volunteers?