Villagers cheer freeing of land rights campaigner

comments     Keruah Usit     Published     Updated

A doughty Iban defender of Native Customary Rights (NCR) to land, Numpang Suntai, who hails from Sebangan in Sarawak, walked out of the magistrate's court in Simunjan yesterday, a free man.

He had been arrested for 'criminal intimidation' against the camp manager of Loyal Billion, a company logging trees in forests claimed by the villagers.

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