EDITOR, NEWS DESK
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS STATEMENT
The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) at its monthly meeting on 13 July 2009 has decided to hold a Public Inquiry on the arrests of five lawyers from the KL Legal Aid Centre outside the Brickfields Police Station on the night of 7 May 2009.
SUHAKAM has appointed a three-member Panel chaired by Commissioner Dato’ Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, and commissioners Dato’ Dr Michael Yeoh and Datuk Dr Denison Jayasooria to conduct the Public Inquiry.
The Public Inquiry will determine whether or not the arrests of the 5 lawyers contravened provisions of the Federal Constitution and other substantive and procedural criminal laws which guarantee the Right to Counsel to an arrested person and whether or not there was justification or necessity to arrest the lawyers under Section 27 of the Police Act, 1967.
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“HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL”
TAN SRI DATUK SERI PANGLIMA SIMON SIPAUN
Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM)
Vice Chairman
13 July 2009
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