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TMI - Former real estate agent sues Jais, says he was beaten when caught for close proximity

A former real estate agent today filed a suit against the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) for using physical force on him when he was arrested for close proximity, or khalwat, at his home in December 2006.

Hashim Mohd Said, 48, said that six Jais officers and two police personnel had burst into his home at the Seri Tanjung Apartment in USJ 16 at 4am when he was caught with his partner, who is a convert.

"They used a cane to beat me during the raid," he told reporters outside the Shah Alam Court Complex.

Hashim said that he sustained injuries all over his body including his face, and had to seek treatment at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre and the Kuala Lumpur Hospital.

If the above is true then I need to say something about it.

It’s known “some people” love to hurt others. Give them a bit of power and whoosh, they’re off with their canes.

So we need to ask: was it necessary to whack someone found in close proximity? Or had the officers been jealous of the victim? Wakakaka.

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Worse, in Brunei they can chop off your hands, execute you by stoning, etc all in the name of God, which means you can't question those punishments or the law officers who dispense them on the poor victims. And it won't help even if you appeal to the court, not when your hands have been amputated.

And PAS praises Brunei for fully implementing syariah.

But there’s little evidence that syariah laws have reduced crimes; au contraire they have been evidence such religious laws, because they can't be challenged, have sanctioned crimes by religious officers – for more, read my earlier post Little evidence of justice in hudud-ruled nations.