Archive for October, 2010

If ‘something’ happens to Selva, will Hisham or IGP answer for it

If ‘something’ happens to Selva, will Hisham or IGP answer for it

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...
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Key witness to death inquest held under drug charge

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...
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Police accused of abducting eyewitness to their own brutality

Police accused of abducting eyewitness to their own brutality

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...
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Memorandum bantahan kepada Ketua Polis Negara berhubung penangkapan dan penahanan saksi inkues K.Selvach Santhiran Bukit Aman, 30 Oktober 2010

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...
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Memorandum of protest to the IGP on the arrest and detention of inquest witness K.Selvach Santhiran

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...
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RMAF says ex-airman’s lawyer helping him go AWOL

RMAF says ex-airman’s lawyer helping him go AWOL

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...
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Kes curi jet: Permohonan sarjan TUDM soal balas dua mejar ditolak

Kes curi jet: Permohonan sarjan TUDM soal balas dua mejar ditolak

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...
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Threat of criminal proceedings by RMAF against Lawyer N.Surendran

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...
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PROTEST MEMO TO IGP ON 30TH OCTOBER 2010 ( Beating and abduction of K.Selvachandran by police)

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...
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Malaysia Chronicle denied basic right of legal representation by MCMC

Malaysia Chronicle denied basic right of legal representation by MCMC

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...
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