The abducted pastor Raymond Koh had agreed when he was told that he was a "marked man", according to Harapan Komuniti director Sri Ram KS Gopala Iyer.

He said that when he last met Koh in Shah Alam on Jan 8, Koh was complaining about the stress over the harassment he faced since the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) raided a Harapan Komuniti event in 2011.

The event was a fundraising dinner for the charity and was held in a hall on the premises of the Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC). Some of the guests had been Muslims.

“I told him you should have known since DUMC. You are a marked man,” he told a Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) public hearing today.

When asked what was Koh’s response, he said Koh simply agreed.

When told to justify his statement, Sri Ram said Koh had long complained of being followed and photographed by strangers, being stopped by the Immigration Department at the border and then questioned by special branch officers, and receiving prank calls.

He said this had gone on for years since the 2011 raid, but he was unaware if there were any recent incidents.

The Suhakam hearing - now in its second day - is investigating whether Koh is a victim of enforced disappearance as defined by the International Convention for Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances (ICPPED).

It is also looking into the disappearances of activist Amri Chemat, Pastor Joshua Hilmy and his wife Ruth Hilmy.

ICPPED was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2006, but Malaysia is not a party to the convention.

It defines enforced disappearance as the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the state or by persons, or groups of persons, acting with the authorisation, support or acquiescence of the state.

The hearing is being chaired by Suhakam commissioner Mah Weng Kwai. Other members of the panel are Suhakam commissioners Aishah Bidin and Nik Salida Suhaila Nik Saleh.

Earlier today, Koh’s wife Susanna Liew had testified on the harassment that her family faced in the years following the 2011 raid.

She said she and her husband had been followed by people in cars with cameras.

She said Koh had been stopped by the Immigration Department at the border nine times for about a year since Oct 2011, and she had been stopped seven times.

They would then either be brought for questioning by the special branch, or simply told to wait while the department contacted the special branch for instructions.

On one such stops, she said Koh told her that a special branch officer interrogating him threatened him twice with two year’s imprisonment, but she did not know for what offence.

On another occasion, when the couple and Elizabeth returned to Malaysia from New Zealand in Nov 2011, she said they spotted a large group of well-built men in similar-looking black jackets following them.

One of the group had been taking pictures of the family, she said, prompting the daughter to take out her handphone to take pictures of the group.

Asked if he had lodged a complained about the supposed harassment, she said, “We didn’t lodge a report with the police, because the special branch is (part of) the police. How to lodge a report?”

The couple’s daughter Elizabeth is sometimes targeted too, she said.

The hearing will continue on Oct 30 with the couple’s eldest son Jonathan’s testimony.