Prim wants to meet Pak Lah over deaths in police custody
The yet-to-be-registered Parti Reformasi Insan Malaysia (Prim) has requested an urgent meeting with Home Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to discuss incidences of death in police custody.
In a letter dated yesterday, Prim pointed out that the death rate in police custody has risen by 225 percent since the year 2000, based on figures given by Deputy Home Minister Chor Chee Heung.
Chor said that six people died in police custody in 2000, ten died in 2001, while 18 have died so far up to September 2002 when answering a question in Parliament on Oct 14.
The letter, signed by Prim Police Watch and Human Rights Committee legal adviser P Uthayakumar, rejected Chor's explanation that there was no evidence to link detainees death to police brutality, asserting that they had documented cases of death in custody and police brutality over a 10-year period in a memo that was handed to Abdullah on July 1 this year.
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