UPDATED 1.23PM | The wife of the missing activist Amri Che Mat, Norhayati Mohd Ariffin, has urged police to investigate a claim that her husband was abducted by a Special Branch (SB) team from Bukit Aman on Nov 24, 2016.

She claimed that the SB team was also the same team that had abducted pastor Raymond Koh on Feb 13 last year.

She said these details were revealed to her on the night of May 12, by a police officer who came to her house in Kangar. She claimed he showed them his police identification card when asked for verification.

“On May 15, 2018, I lodged a police report and recorded a statement about this at the Shah Alam police district headquarters. I have disclosed to the police more details about other officers mentioned, including the name of this police informer.

“I urge the police to investigate these serious allegations with urgency and to find my husband Amri and also pastor Koh and return them to their loved ones immediately.

“I also urge the police to cooperate with the investigation being conducted by the Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) and to be more forthcoming with the truth about Amri's case at this ongoing inquiry,” she said in a statement today.

In a statement later, Bukit Aman corporate communications head SAC Asmawati Ahmad confirmed a police report has been lodged on the matter, and investigations are underway. 

She also cautioned all quarters to not speculate, in order to not jeopardize investigations. 

Previously, former Uber driver Lam Chang Nam, 32, was charged with allegedly kidnapping Koh and extorting his son. 

Suhakam had been holding public inquiries to investigate whether the missing persons' cases of Koh, Amri, Joshua Hilmy and his wife Ruth Sitepu amount to enforced disappearances as defined by the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED).

The ICPPED was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2006 but Malaysia is not a signatory.

However, Suhakam was forced to suspend its hearings on Koh’s case after Lam was charged, while the inquiries on the other disappearances are still ongoing. 

This is because Section 12(2) of the Suhakam Act 1999 prohibits the commission from inquiring into any matter that is pending in court.