Editor, wartawan KeadilanDaily beri keterangan

PETALING JAYA: 10 Mac 2013, Editor KeadilanDaily, Fazallah Pit hari ini mendakwa wartawannya, Aisha Geoffrey melaporkan berita yang betul dan selari dengan kenyataan Ahli Parlimen Batu, Tian Chua bersabit isu pencerobohan bersenjata tentera Sulu di Lahad Datu. Malah Fazallah mendakwa kenyataan Tian Chua yang dilaporkan KeadilanDaily pada 1 Mac lalu diputarbelit blogger Umno, sehingga ia…

Justice for Sugumar, Najib Don’t Stop Pornthip!

  KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 23): The mood may have been somber at the Elephant Fountain in Brickfields tonight, but the loud call for justice could be heard clearly throughout the busy area Organised by the Stop State Violence Coalition, comprising 42 non-governmental organisations, the “Justice for Sugumar, Najib Don’t Stop Porntip!” candlelight vigil was attended…

Fresh calls for IPCMC

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 15): Though it has been almost a decade since the proposal for the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) was first mooted, civil society continues to push for its implementation, especially in light of several high-profile cases of deaths in police custody recently. The Stop State Violence Movement today said that…

Dr Pornthip ready to do Sugumaran’s second autopsy, say lawyers

Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand has agreed to perform a second autopsy on security guard C Sugumaran who allegedly died from a police beating, Sugumaran’s family lawyers said today. Dr Pornthip is the Thai forensic pathologist who had observed Teoh Beng Hock’s second post-mortem and testified at a royal inquiry that foul play was likely involved in…

High Court quashes MACC order for two lawyers to make statement over NFC case

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has no power to record statements from lawyers accompanying their clients during questioning, a High Court here held Wednesday. High Court (Appellate and Special Powers) judge Justice Zaleha Yusof granted an order to quash MACC’s notices dated March 19 last year which demanded that two lawyers be present…

Court quashes MACC’s notices to record lawyers’ statement

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has no power to record statements from lawyers who accompany their clients during interviews with the commission, the High Court held. Judge Datuk Zaleha Yusof also quashed two notices issued by the MACC to two lawyers to record their statements in relation to a corruption case. She also allowed…

Sugumaran’s family rejects ‘sham’ inquest

PETALING JAYA: The family of C Sugumaran has declined to participate in the inquest called by the attorney-general to determine the security guard’s cause of death. According to lawyers N Surendran and Latheefah Koya, the family is vexed that Selangor police Tun Hisan Tun Majid had rejected the call to initiate a murder investigation. Describing…

Sugumaran’s kin want murder probe, not inquest

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 28 — The family of C. Sugumaran has rejected suggestions to hold an inquest into last week’s death of the security guard and will press for a murder investigation instead, says lawyer N. Surendran. The PKR vice-president said in a text message to The Malaysian Insider that this was because the Sugumaran’s next of…

Police deny beating man, say he died of heart attack

KAJANG, Jan 24 — The police have denied beating a security guard yesterday to death, pointing out that a post-mortem today revealed that he had died of a heart attack.   Three eyewitnesses alleged earlier today that four policemen had handcuffed and then assaulted 39-year-old C. Sugumaran together with a mob of more than 20…

Eyewitnesses say cops, mob beat handcuffed man to death

SERDANG, Jan 24 — A security guard was chased down yesterday by four policemen who subsequently handcuffed and beat him to death together with a mob of more than 20 people in Hulu Langat yesterday, eyewitnesses alleged today.   It is unclear why policemen were trying to apprehend 40-year-old C. Sugumaran. He was found naked…

‘Najib responsible for stateless Indians’

PETALING JAYA: Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) have accused Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and the National Registration Department (NRD) of failing to protect stateless Indians in the country. In a press statement yesterday, LFL co-founder and adviser, Eric Paulsen, said Najib was ultimately responsible for the problem as the NRD is a department under the…

Cop: Not sure why I didn’t report assault

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…

Stateless Malaysian-born trio to proceed with judicial review

KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here has granted leave for three Malaysian-born Indians to proceed with a judicial review over their failure to obtain MyKad. Justice Zaleha Yusof made the order after meeting counsel Latheefa Koya who acted for applicants S. Letchumy and her daughters K. Sarojini and K. Mala and Senior Federal Counsel Shamsul…

Lawyers call for coroner’s court

PETALING JAYA (Jan 2, 2013): The legal fraternity has called for the establishment of a coroner’s court in Malaysia in a bid for structural reform of inquests. Bar Council president Lim Chee Wee said such a court would be able to focus on identifying the deceased and ascertaining the circumstances of death. “Recent enquiries into…