Cop: Not sure why I didn’t report assault

News

THE policeman taking care of death-in-custody victim A. Kugan in 2009 told the High Court yesterday he was “not sure” why he did not report colleague V. Navindran’s alleged assault on the victim to his superiors even after Kugan’s death in a police lock-up. Mohd Haizan Hamid, the lance-corporal who claimed to have witnessed Navindran beating…

LFL: The Prime Minister and NRD have failed to protect genuine stateless claimants

Statements

Lawyers for Liberty views with disbelief Special Implementation Taskforce chairman Siva Subramaniam’s statement reported in Free Malaysia Today (“Ministry adds on to stateless problem”, 23 January 2013) that seemed to suggest that Prime Minister Najib Razak and the National Registration Department (NRD) were doing a good job in addressing statelessness affecting the Indian community while…