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Hindraf leader P Uthayakumar is FREE! He will spend Deepavalli a free man.

ON HIS FUTURE AND HINDRAF

As for himself, Uthayakumar said he will withdraw from the public spotlight for now.

“I will spend a few years in Washington DC to do research and lecture,” he said, but added he is still unclear when he will depart.

Asked if this would be the end of Hindraf, Uthayakumar insisted that the movement will never disappear.

However, Uthayakumar said Hindraf’s plan had failed during the last general election and he did not want to give any “false hope” this time.

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/276638

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Uthayakumar  stressed it is the non-Indian leaders in Pakatan who must take up the cause of the Indian poor.

Malaysiakini

6:37PM Oct 4, 2014

Uthayakumar tells Indians to turn to Pakatan

Fresh out of prison, Hindraf leader P Uthayakumar is not making any plans for a full-frontal return to politics. Instead, the the veteran activist is planning on going for a sabbatical. Surprisingly, he calls for Hindraf’s return to the Pakatan Rakyat fold.

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Having finally regained his freedom after 485 days behind bars for sedition, many are expecting Hindraf leader P Uthayakumar to breathe fresh air into the lethargic movement for marginalised Indians.

But anyone harbouring such hopes may be disappointed.

The veteran activist, who in 2007 were among key leaders to mobilise some 30,000 to protest discrimination against Indian Malaysians, has told his community to now set its sight on Pakatan Rakyat.

“Every night I thought about it until I had a mental block. There is no other solution besides Pakatan.

“There is no other option. BN is a forgone conclusion,” he said, adding that even fellow inmates were angry when his brother P Waythamoorthy attempted to ally the Indian Malaysian movement with BN.

He added the majority of Indian Malaysians had voted for Pakatan and therefore, it is only appropriate that they turn to its top three leaders, namely Anwar Ibrahim, Abdul Hadi Awang and Lim Kit Siang.

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/276638

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Hindraf leader P Uthayakumar is in Prison. This is his SECOND Deepavali behind bars.

Free Malaysia Today

Dark Deepavali for me

Jailed Hindraf-HRP leader P Uthayakumar wishes Malaysians a Happy Deepavali while he ‘celebrates’ his festival of lights locked up in an isolation prison room.

By P Uthayakumar

For the second time in five weeks, I have yet again been locked up for 31 days. For 24 hours a day, confined to a 10 foot x 10 foot, dark isolation room with a 2 foot x 10 foot wash area and toilet bowl.

The drain hole is clogged up and water available is enough for only 3-4 dippers, for bathing purposes. The isolation room is near the torture chambers and the last cell – No.12 – with five other persons – murderers and armed violent robbers/criminals.

This is the very last death row cell and is ‘next door’ to the hanging chambers which can accommodate the hanging of three prisoners at any one time.

I can hear the trap door of the hangman platform being opened as it was being tested, perhaps for another imminent hanging.

This is my second Deepavali in prison, the first under ISA detention at Kemta Prison in 2008.
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Three days ago the prison doctor refused to refer me to the general hospital for my severe prolapsed disk condition. The condition is being aggravated by the denial of my request for a plastic chair (given to me earlier) for over four weeks now. He said that only the prison authorities have that power.

I persisted and the prison authorities then sent me to the Semenyih government clinic.

But the pro-prison Dr Norhayati refused to admit me despite my complaints of severe backbone pain, numbness in both feet, swollen legs and pricking pain when walking with difficulty.

Even a referral letter was denied for me to be given my plastic chair and warm drinking water as I developed a fever, flu and cough drinking prison tap water ……TO TORTURE ME!

I quietly walked back to my dark, cold, and also hot and stuffy (day time) and dirty and lonely cell at Kajang Prison to spend my dark Deepavali.
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Read more: Dark Deepavali for me

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Free Malaysia Today

Uthayakumar ‘tortured’ in jail, claims wife

The Hindraf leader’s wife claims that her husband was locked-up in dark isolation cell for 28-days and was forced to sleep on concrete floor.

KUALA LUMPUR: S Indra Devi, the wife of jailed Hindraf leader P. Uthayakumar, wants the Government to intervene on behalf of her husband, whom she alleged is being tortured and inhumanely treated in the Kajang Prison.

In a letter to the Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, she claimed that her husband who is a diabetic and suffers from a degenerative prolapsed disc in his spinal lumbar, has been locked up in dark isolation for 28-days and is forced to sleep on concrete despite the condition.

She also alleged that he was being fed food and water through unsanitary means.

Uthayakumar ‘tortured’ in jail, claims wife

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Uthayakumar said he is now denied basic necessities such as a toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, towel, blanket, pillow or even his old half-inch foam mattress.

Malaysiakini

Hindraf leader P Uthayakumar, who is in Kajang Prison, has complained in a letter to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak that he continues to be tortured under detention.

“I have been and am being tortured with mala fide (ill intentions) at the most feared and dreaded isolation lockup of Kajang Prison for 27 days, and it is to continue indefinitely,” he said in the letter.

The letter was faxed to Najib’s office as well as Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi yesterday.

“I am locked up under solitary confinement alone, 24 hours a day, not seeing sunlight or fresh air (in a) dimly lit cell,” he said.

The incarcerated Hindraf leader added that he is only given one set of prison clothes.

Uthayakumar complains of torture in letter to PM

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Uthayakumar, who is diabetic, on Tuesday had complained of ill-treatment during a case management at the Kuala Lumpur High Court of his appeal against his sedition sentence passed in June.

Malaysiakini

Instead of getting better treatment after complaining to the courts, Hindraf de facto leader P Uthayakumar is now being treated worse in Kajang Prison, claims Hindraf.

“After attending court on Sept 24, 2013, P Uthayakumar is now being further punished by now being hauled to the death row chambers,” said RN Rajah, the deputy secretary of Hindraf that is aligned with Uthayakumar.

He said that Uthayakumar is now denied his plastic chair initially given to him to ease his suffering from a prolapsed disc.

“His legs have began to swell again,” he said in a press statement today.
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“He is being detained with five others like sardines,” said Rajah, adding that the the other prisoners had full view of Uthayakumar naked when taking a shower or easing himself.

“Why this level of indignity on P Uthayakumar, Malaysia’s only political prisoner in jail?” he asked, likening the conditions to a “Nazi concentration camp”.

Court complaint lands Uthayakumar in death row

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Malaysiakini

Human Rights Party leader P Uthyakumar made his first public appearance in the High Court in Kuala Lumpur today after being jailed for sedition, with six prison guards surrounding him in open court.

Unlike other prisoners, where one guard escorts the person in court, Uthyakumar was placed under heavy guard.

This took place during case management on his appeal today.

The action of the prison authorities angered Uthayakumar’s supporters who occupied the courtroom, and they asked that he be treated with dignity.
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As Uthayakumar and his supporters complained over the manner that he was treated, the court ordered that the Human Rights Party leader be brought down to the court complex lock-up at the basement and for the family members to meet him there.

Uthayakumar’s lawyer AS Dhaliwal told reporters that the court has set Oct 24 for further case management.

Uthaya appears in court, surrounded by prison guards

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Hindraf leader P Uthayakumar: My First 100 Days in Prison.

On 5 June 2013, LAWYER P. Uthayakumar was sentenced to 21/2   years imprisonment by the Sessions Court after being found guilty of writing a letter of a seditious nature against the government to former British prime minister Gordon Brown six years ago.  

READ HIS SHOCKING REVELATIONS!

Malaysiakini

…at the notorious Block K (AB), which is run by a group of young Malay gangsters with eight to 12 previous convictions… they shout and are rude at the smallest things, ill treat, bully, torture… punishing and ‘disciplining’ prisoners for even talking among themselves while forced to sit on the ground, head down and hands clutched to the knees for hours under the hot sun, like the Nazi-era war criminals and watched silently by the prison wardens.

The words above are penned by Hindraf leader P Uthayakumar from the very block where it all allegedly happened in the Kajang Prison, and released to the media yesterday, the 100th day of his incarceration there.
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Worst still, Uthayakumar claimed, the ‘disciplining’ appeared to be endorsed by the prison wardens, who did nothing to stop the gangster inmates.

“The prison wardens’ job is made easy by this ‘outsourcing’. In return, these gangsters, called JL, camouflaged for ‘Jurulatih’ (trainer), get to reign supreme in prison.

“(They) ‘extort’ from prisoners some of the monthly groceries their poor loved ones buy for (them) once a month from the prison canteen, right under the eyes of prison wardens,” Uthayakumar wrote.

For turning a blind eye, the Hindraf leader alleged, the prison wardens were rewarded with “perks”, such as free massage from the prisoners.

Uthayakumar fights on after 100 days in jail

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Malaysia Chronicle

Friday, 13 September 2013 14:45

PRISON SHOCKER: Uthaya tells of ‘Nazi-style’ bullying, hopes for Guan Eng visit

I almost witnessed my first death in custody, of a Chinese elderly man, brought in unconscious with a mere piece of paper with his name and body number written on it and stuck to his mouth.

“Only after eight hours and only after my insistence was he taken to the Kajang General Hospital. I never saw him again after that. I was told he had passed away,” Uthayakumar said in the letter.

Uthayakumar, who is diabetic, also recounted the troubles with his prolapsed disc condition and a suspected fracture to his index finger, after slipping and falling in the bathroom because of the clogged drains.

“When I complained to the ASP on duty that what would happen if I had hit my head and something had happened to me, his reply was that if something happened there would be “no more problems after that” (as I would have died),” he wrote.

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Free Malaysia Today

My 100 days in prison

The Hindraf leader speaks of inhumane treatment received by him and several other inmates in the Kajang Prison.

To read in full the article, click on

My 100 days in prison

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