LETTER | Police work commended, must do more in Miri lockup teen rape case
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LETTER | On Jan 8, 2021, Miri police arrested a 16-year-old girl for alleged involvement in illegal online gambling activities. She was taken to the police station. She was processed and put in the station’s lockup. That night, in the lockup, a male detainee raped her.
On Feb 9, the government charged two police officers involved in the case. According to a report in the
Malay Mail, the two officers “allegedly allowed the cell of a detainee, Zuraini Razzi Ranni, to remain unlocked and to have access to the key of the cell of the victim.”
Sunday, 14 Feb 2021 03:41 PM MYT
Police officers conducting checks at a roadblock in Jalan Kuching, Kuala Lumpur January 31, 2021. Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 14 What are your rights, as a civillian, if the police stop you during a roadblock?
“If a road user cannot produce their driving license but have their identity card on them, a summons can be issued. However, they cannot be arrested because this is not a crime that warrants an arrest – nor one that allows the officer in charge to ask for your phone number,” said Prof Datuk Noor Aziah Mohd Awal, a law lecturer at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
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Christian pastor Raymond Koh (left) and Shia Muslim social activist Amri Che Mat went missing within three months of each other. (Photo: Free Malaysia Today)
Catholics and Protestants in Malaysia are praying for victims of enforced disappearances as they remember a Christian pastor who went missing four years ago.
The prayers of solidarity on the weekends on Feb. 6-7 and Feb. 13-14 are in response to a call from the Christian Federation of Malaysia (CFM), the interdenominational Christian forum in the Muslim-majority country.
THE year got off to a rocky start with students uncertain over when face-to-face lessons can resume in light of rising Covid-19 cases.
The Education Ministry had initially announced on Jan 11 that Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) students in the 2020 and 2021 cohorts – together with Sijil Vokasional Malaysia (SVM), Sijil Kemahiran Malaysia (SKM), Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM), Sijil Tinggi Agama Malaysia (STAM) and Diploma Vokasional Malaysia (DVM) – would return to schools, depending on whether they are under the movement control order, conditional MCO or recovery MCO states.
The decision was reversed in less than a week, on Jan 16, with the ministry announcing that only the 2020 batch of exam year students would be allowed to return for face-to-face studies.
The originally proposed Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission is the only way to restore the people’s confidence in our police force.
OVER the years, recurrent reports of abuses, including violence against detainees and deaths in custody, have marred the reputation of our police force. The alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl in a police station lockup recently has the sullied image further.
The girl lodged a report last Saturday, a week after she was raped by a youth while she was locked up in the Miri central police station in Sarawak. Details of the report are indeed shocking.