Anti-Sedition Act coalition Gerakan Hapus Akta Hasutan (GHAH) wants an independent investigation into the allegation that student Ali Abd Jalil was tortured while held at the Sungai Buloh Prison.

“Ali was denied his access to family members for the first 12 days of his detention. Throughout his 15 days of detention in Sungai Buloh, Ali said he was verbally and physically abused, punched, slapped and hit with a baton and rubber pipe in an empty room.”