Activist claims probe into Teoh Beng Hock group dropped

 

Activist Wong Yan Ke and Teoh Beng Hock’s sister Lee Lan speaking to the media outside the Brickfields police headquarters today.

KUALA LUMPUR: 

Activist Wong Yan Ke claims the police have dropped their investigation into three members of the Teoh Beng Hock Association for Democratic Advancement (TBH-ADA) who were being probed under the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012.

Earlier today, TBH-ADA said the Brickfields police headquarters had contacted the group’s chairman Ng Yap Hwa and TBH-ADA members, Yan Ke and Wong Voon How, to give their statements at 5.30 pm today.

Less than an hour after news about our investigation, the police told us our appointment was cancelled,

 Yan Ke told FMT when met at the Brickfields police headquarters.

When contacted, Brickfields police chief Ku Mashariman Ku Mahmood declined to confirm whether the probe was dropped but said the police had decided that there was no need to call anyone in for questioning as of now.

The three TBH-ADA members were called in for questioning after the group was intercepted by the police when attempting to enter the Parliament building to deliver a memorandum to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Monday.

During an ensuing scuffle, Beng Hock’s sister, Lee Lan, fell and was apparently injured. Ng said a member of the demonstration’s organising committee was grabbed by the collar by a policeman, which broke her necklace and left red marks on her neck.

After a brief stand-off, the group was able to submit the memorandum but could not enter the building as originally planned. Ng said the group planned to bill the government and request compensation for the damage to the necklace and medical treatment.

Anwar to meet Teoh Beng Hock’s family on Aug 1

Anwar had promised to meet Beng Hock’s family to review their memorandum following the incident outside Parliament, with Lee Lan today confirming that the Pakatan Harapan chairman will see the family on Aug 1.

This afternoon, the prime minister’s political secretary, Chan Ming Kai, contacted me to arrange a meeting between our family and the prime minister,

 she said.

TBH-ADA members and other supporters arrived at Parliament on Monday after a three-day, 96km walk for justice.

The demands in their memorandum include a thorough and transparent investigation into Beng Hock’s death, the enactment of an anti-torture law, and an amendment to Section 30 of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act to limit interrogation time.

In 2009, the former aide to then Selangor executive councillor Ean Yong Hian Wah was found dead on the fifth floor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam, hours after arriving for questioning on the 14th floor of the Selangor MACC headquarters.

A coroner’s inquest in 2011 delivered an open verdict, and his family subsequently filed an appeal. Three years later, the Court of Appeal set aside the open verdict and ruled that Beng Hock’s death was caused by multiple injuries as a result of unlawful acts by unknown persons. - FMT