• Suhakam to probe Penan rape claims
  • Tony Thien
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  • The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) will send a team to Sarawak next week to carry out investigations into the alleged sexual abuse and rape of Penan women and girls by logging company workers.

    Disclosing this today, its Sarawak-based commissioner Dr Hirman Ritom Abdullah said the team would comprise four commissioners, including himself and staff from the commission's headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.
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