P Uthayakumar, the de facto leader of the Hindu Rights Action Force, an Indian rights organization protesting mistreatment of Malaysia’s Indian population, has issued an open letter to Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and other officials alleging horrific treatment at the hands of prison guards at Kajang Prison, where he has been locked up since June on sedition charges.
“I have and am being tortured…at the most feared and dreaded closed isolation lock-up of Kajang Prison all in for 27 days and to continue indefinitely,” Kumar wrote. “I am locked-up under solitary confinement alone, 24 hours a day not seeing sunlight or fresh air [in a] dimly lit cell and [with] just one set of prison pants and shirt in an empty lock-up."
The prisons department denied mistreating the Hindraf leader, saying he had been put into solitary confinement for 13 days on two separate occasions for disciplinary problems. Uthayakumar was described as a “rebellious prisoner who caused ‘tense situations’" with the prison staff.
The 52-year-old Uthayakumar is the legal advisor to the NGO, which supported the Barisan Nasional in May 2013 national elections. In recognition, Najib appointed Hindraf chairman P Wayathamoorthy a deputy minister in the prime minister’s office. Hindraf members have since called for Wayathamoorthy to quit, alleging the government has done nothing to bring poor ethnic Indians into the country's mainstream. Full story...
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“I have and am being tortured…at the most feared and dreaded closed isolation lock-up of Kajang Prison all in for 27 days and to continue indefinitely,” Kumar wrote. “I am locked-up under solitary confinement alone, 24 hours a day not seeing sunlight or fresh air [in a] dimly lit cell and [with] just one set of prison pants and shirt in an empty lock-up."
The prisons department denied mistreating the Hindraf leader, saying he had been put into solitary confinement for 13 days on two separate occasions for disciplinary problems. Uthayakumar was described as a “rebellious prisoner who caused ‘tense situations’" with the prison staff.
The 52-year-old Uthayakumar is the legal advisor to the NGO, which supported the Barisan Nasional in May 2013 national elections. In recognition, Najib appointed Hindraf chairman P Wayathamoorthy a deputy minister in the prime minister’s office. Hindraf members have since called for Wayathamoorthy to quit, alleging the government has done nothing to bring poor ethnic Indians into the country's mainstream. Full story...
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