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Suaram: Sosma detainees claim torture in police custody
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Published on Jan 17, 2016
A chilling letter from a Security Offences (Special Measures) Act detainee outlines the torture and harassment they had to endure at the hands of the police, including being forced to make a pronouncement of divorce upon his wife, masturbate in front of the police and being physically tortured.
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20 January 2016
Call to press #Malaysia to end torture in counter-terrorism efforts https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/327500 @hrw @Reaproy
An international human rights group has urged allies to pressure Malaysia to stop using torture as part of its counter-terrorism efforts.
Human Rights Watch Asia Division deputy director Phil Robertson said recent torture allegations were merely the latest in the ‘long, horrific record’ of torturing suspects by the Malaysian police and shielding the perpetrators.
“In ordinary circumstances, I’d call on inspector-general of police to investigate, but he’s already ignored dozens of serious allegations of police torture, so he’s hopeless.
“The only hope for justice is a truly independent investigation. But I hardly expect the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC) to have the political will to see such an inquiry through.
“So, it really falls to President Barack Obama and the United States, and other countries allied with Malaysia in the so-called ‘war on terror’, to tell Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak that such police abuses have no place in any counter-terrorism effort.
“And they also have to demand that policemen responsible be identified and prosecuted for using torture,” Robertson (photo) told Malaysiakini when contacted yesterday.
https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/327500
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Sosma detainees allege torture, sex acts, in police custody https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/327255 @SUARAMtweets
An NGO has released letters purportedly written by detainees held under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma), who have alleged torture during their detention.
Among others, one detainee claimed that he was forced to kiss the foot of his investigating officer, forced to masturbate while they watched, forced to watch pornographic videos with the officers, and forced to make a pronouncement of divorce upon his wife (lafaz taklid cerai).
This is in addition to beatings and other degrading acts he suffered, he said.
https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/327255
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Malaysiakini
OKT Sosma dakwa kena seksa, cium kaki, onani
Sebuah NGO hari ini mendedahkan beberapa surat yang didakwa adalah rintihan tahanan Akta Kesalahan Keselamatan (Langkah-Langkah Khas) 2012 (Sosma) yang mendakwa mereka diseksa.
Antaranya, tahanan mendakwa bahawa mereka dipaksa mencium kaki pegawai penyiasat, melakukan onani, menonton video lucah dan dibogelkan.
Ada juga tahanan yang mendakwa dipaksa membuat lafaz cerai taklid kepada isteri sekiranya tidak mahu diri mereka dipukul.
For more:
https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/327263?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
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Fee Malaysia Today
Sosma detainees forced to watch porn, crawl like dogs
NGO Suaram says one detainee had to stay in a half stand pose while police recorded his statement while another was forced to divorce his wife by pronouncing talak on her.
KUALA LUMPUR: Tortured, abused, and stripped of their dignity.
These are some of the extremities several individuals, currently in detention under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma), were alleged to have endured for criminal activities they were suspected of having committed.
Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram) in a press conference here today revealed the torment detainees were put through, many of which were relayed to the NGO through letters passed to their respective lawyers.
Farida Mohammad, a lawyer who is currently representing several Sosma detainees said according to the letters, some of the suspects were forced to narrate statements in line with what the police wanted.
In the course of obtaining what she described were false confessions, these detainees who were yet to be convicted of the charges brought against them, were allegedly forced to strip naked, watch pornographic movies and touch themselves.
Speaking of the trauma one detainee had to endure, Farida said, “He also said that the police had made him and other detainees kiss each other while they watched and laughed. This, he said, had embarrassed him to a great extent.”
Farida said that in one of the letters, the detainee alleged how he was at one point, forced to stay in a ‘half stand’ position while police took his statement.
If the statement differed from the theory the police had allegedly concocted, she revealed, he would be beaten up.
Copies of the letters which were provided to the media also saw another suspect alleging that while at the Bukit Aman police headquarters, he was forced to strip naked and “crawl like a dog” while picking up rubber bands on the floor, using his mouth.
“I was also forced to watch a pornographic video on the police’s handphone and masturbate in front of them. They also forced me to divorce my wife by pronouncing talak on her.
“They then threatened to separate my baby from my wife, deport her from the country and make her a prostitute in Cambodia,” read the handwritten letter.
Another letter claimed the accused was threatened that his pregnant wife as well as other family members would be arrested unless he gave his statement in accordance to what the police wanted.
Farida went to state that detainees were apparently told that if they confessed, the police would release them from the detention centre as soon as possible.
“This amounts to an inducement by threat or promise which should not have been admissible in court.”
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