‘Review detention rules in police custody’ Pix for representational purpose only.
PETALING JAYA:
The reported rape of a 16-year-old girl in the Miri police station lock-up has led to many calling for a review of detention rules and abuses in police custody.
Batu Kawan MP Kasthuri Patto said in a statement that in the first place, police should know it is in their standard operating procedures that children are not allowed to be detained in a police lock-up.
The victim was arrested by police for alleged involvement in illegal online gambling activities.
She was reportedly raped by a male detainee in the lock-up on Jan 9. The victim and her father lodged a police report on Saturday.
PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - As Covid-19 cases continue to rise in Malaysia, civil society groups and politicians say a snap election should be avoided.
Alliance for Safe Community chairman Lee Lam Thye said calling a general election now is not the right thing to do, with the coronavirus pandemic showing no signs of abating. The situation is very serious, going by the daily figures, which hover at around 2,000 new cases. We should learn from the lessons of the Sabah election (in September). We ended up with cases going out of control despite the Health Ministry s best efforts, Tan Sri Lee said, adding that even standard operating procedures in place during the Sabah election did not help.
PETALING JAYA: A retired high-ranking police officer threatened to walk out of a Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) inquiry into the disappearance of Joshua Hilmy and Ruth Sitepu on Wednesday (Jan 6).
Comm (Rt) Datuk Awaludin Jadid, the former principal assistant director of Special Branch s Social Extremism Division (E2), was agitated when he was questioned about a speech that he had made about extremism in November 2016.
“Why are we referring to an old ceramah in 2016? I don’t understand why. What is the reason. I have already given the same answer. Why don’t you just refer to the transcript or notes of proceedings on that, ” he said on Wednesday (Jan 6) in response to questions by Bar Council observer Lim Heng Seng.
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