Hospital failed to detect baby’s death, says teacher

Hospital failed to detect baby’s death, says teacher


BUTTERWORTH: A teacher wants to know why hospital authorities failed to detect that his baby was already dead inside his wife’s womb 24 hours before she went into labour.

Khairul Anuar Abdul Rahim, 36, alleged that he was told that his baby was alive when his wife, Shahriza Abdul Rami, 30, went for a check-up at the Penang Maternity Hospital on Monday.

Khairul, from Simpang Ampat, said his wife was admitted to the Seberang Jaya Hospital at 5.50pm on Tuesday and claimed that 15 minutes later, the doctors suspected that the baby had died.

“But they waited till 9.15pm to scan my wife before the doctor told me of the sad news.

“My wife delivered our stillborn child at about 11pm. I left the hospital at 2am with my daughter's body and the doctor had yet to issue the death certificate. The hospital had been negligent in carrying out its duties.

“When I came to collect the certificate on Wednesday, I was told by the hospital staff that my daughter had died 24 hours prior to my wife's labour,” he said after meeting the Seberang Jaya Hospital management yesterday.

The couple has two sons aged eight and two.

Khairul said his wife suffered from Immune thrombocytopenic purpura that causes low blood palette count, and she was hospitalised several times during the last two months.

He said he was giving the hospital a week to explain, failing which he would take legal action.
Penang Health Department director Dr Teh Lei Choo said an investigation would be conducted.
“The department would investigate the allegations and we would call Khairul for another meeting to explain on what had transpired.

“A meeting was set up between Khairul and the hospital but he left abruptly after accusing them of negligence,” she said.

Human rights festival: 9 charged

Human rights festival: 9 charged
http://www5.malaysiakini.com/news/75849
Syed Jaymal Zahiid Dec 10, 07 1:25pm

Eight people, including five lawyers, were charged today with participatingin an illegal assembly yesterday. They also faced a further charge of disobeying the police order to disperse.

To add to this, another lawyer, Edmund Bon, was charged with obstructing Kuala Lumpur City Hall officers from performing their duty.

All nine of those charged claimed trial at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court.Prosecution is personally led by attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail - the government's highest ranking legal officer - who is objecting bail for allcharged today.

The eight marchers were *arrested yesterday*
<http://www5.malaysiakini.com/news/75828%3E> for blocking DBKL officials from removing human rights banners outside the Malaysian Bar building in Leboh Pasar Besar in Kuala Lumpur.

End China's Human Rights Abuses in Tibet Before the 2008 Olympics

Although China is known around the world for violating human rights in Tibet, the International Olympic Committee chose Beijing as the site for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Tens of thousands of Tibetans have been forced to leave their homeland due to the brutal Chinese occupation.

China's current policy toward Tibet includes:

Imprisoning and torturing Tibetans who speak out against the Chinese occupation of Tibet;
Violating religious freedoms, including abducting one of Tibet's most important religious figures when he was only six years old. The boy has not been seen since 1995;
Failing to provide adequate education and health care to Tibetan children, and to eradicate child malnutrition and preventable illnesses; and
Enforcing laws that discriminate against Tibetan identity, culture, and religion.

China has a historic opportunity to change its treatment of Tibetans and show the world that it's worthy to host the 2008 Olympics by negotiating a peace agreement with Tibet's exiled leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Let China know that its successful Olympic bid does NOT mean the world sanctions its mistreatment of Tibetans! CALL ON CHINA TO END HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN TIBET.

Help Protect Childrens Rights

The legal protection of children in the United States is "amongst the strongest in the world" if this is true than why can’t we approve and contribute to the immense struggle of children’s rights world-wide? UNICEF works in nearly 160 countries and ensures all children the protection from;Child slavery, forced labor, forced early marriages, lack of nutrition, child prostitution and a mushrooming population of AIDS orphans.

This is a significant chance to break apart and possibly eliminate key components of militias and human rights abuses all around the world. The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely and rapidly ratified human rights treaty in history.

Only two countries, Somalia and the United States, have not ratified this celebrated agreement. Somalia is currently unable to proceed to ratification as it has no recognized government. By signing the Convention, the United States has signaled its intention to ratify—but has yet to do so after twelve years of putting it aside.

More countries have ratified the Convention than any other human rights treaty in history—192 countries had become State Parties to the Convention as of November 2005. “These basic standards—also called human rights—set minimum entitlements and freedoms that should be respected by governments.

They are founded on respect for the dignity and worth of each individual, regardless of race, colour, gender, language, religion, opinions, origins, wealth, birth status or ability and therefore apply to every human being everywhere.With these rights comes the obligation on both governments and individuals not to infringe on the parallel rights of others.

These standards are both interdependent and indivisible; we cannot ensure some rights without—or at the expense of—other rights.” Please encourage congress to further go the ratification process of this treaty and save the lives of millions.

Save Our Children

Did you know in this Country of ours (canada) that the max jail sentance for abandoning or neglecting a child that results in death or serious injury is 10 years! You kill a police officer you get 40 years but you murder a child and you are let out on bail and could end up serving 2 year's in Jail. When you use the claim I was depressed as your cop out you get out on bail and may be sentanced to councelling and probabtion. You took a life weather it was young or old you should receive the most harshest punishment life in prison no chance of parole that innocent child dosnt have the chance to breath again to smile laugh do any of there favorite activities we are asking you Dalton McGuinty to make our laws more strick and punish these individual's like they deserve help protect our innocent children.

Change of laws re Child Abuse and Exploitation on the Internet

To the President of the European Community

We, the undersigned, hereby petition for laws regulating the maintaining, or promoting, or building or hosting or supporting or sponsoring or being connected in any way to any web site that promotes, encourages, panders, or solicits the sexual exploitation of children. These laws shall apply to private, public or commercial enterprises whether they are individual or corporate.

We, feel that the use of these web sites encourages crimes against children of a depraved sexual nature; that the existence of these sites serves no public or community good or use.

We also believe that no Internet service provider, Internet hosting service, Web hosts or any other private, public or commercial service that provide data centre space and/or connectivity to the Internet or to any local area network, should be able to legally host or provide any type of service to any individual, web site or organization that encourages sex crimes against children. This includes any web site, service or individual that portrays children in a sexually suggestive manner we demand that these web sites be made ILLEGAL in the European community.

This petition has been adapted for the European Community from a US petition.

Help ensure Justice for 9 day old Baby Girl who was sexually assaulted and murdered

The innocent baby just stays alive only for 9 days.......

Imagine picking up your local paper and coming across this story,

Her first name is "Heaven" spelled backward.

And that's exactly where those who knew and loved the little girl who was born three weeks premature say she's now resting.

Nevaeh Richardson was 8 days old when she was rushed to Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital on Friday.

Bleeding from the nose and mouth and with trauma to her rectum, she died about 24 hours later.

With the 9-day-old's death now ruled a homicide, investigators are working around the clock to find her killer.

Nevaeh's father, Christopher Ryan Richardson, 21, of Lincoln Park, is a suspect, along with others who were in the family's house in the 1400 block of Cicotte at the time the infant was injured. Police say Nevaeh likely was sexually assaulted.

While the homicide case is being investigated, Richardson is behind bars, accused of beating up his live-in girlfriend. He was arrested for domestic violence, third offense, for allegedly attacking the baby's mother as the couple drove the child to the hospital.

Richardson was in 25th District Court on Monday, where Judge David Zelenak ordered him held on a $100,000 cash bond pending a preliminary examination of the evidence against him. That hearing is set for Tuesday.

If convicted of the felony, he faces up to two years in jail and a $2,500 fine.

"I'm not guilty," Richardson said in court, before later requesting a court-appointed attorney and a lie detector to prove his innocence.

Police Chief Thomas Karnes said the infant's mother awoke early Friday and found Nevaeh lying on her chest, covered in blood.

The young couple, who lived with Richardson's mother and stepfather, went to Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital at about 1:55 a.m. with the child and grandparents. A 911 call was not made.

During the short drive, Richardson is accused of slapping his girlfriend across her face, grabbing her by her hair and threatening her should the baby die.

After doctors assessed the infant's condition, they notified police and transported Nevaeh to Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit. She died at about 2:25 a.m. Saturday.

Richardson's mother, Adie Green, called police after witnessing her son assaulting his girlfriend in the back seat of her car. She said her son has an alcohol and drug problem and was drunk on the early morning in question.

"I'm not supporting him," she said yesterday. "I'm more concerned about the baby. She came from heaven and now she's back there. I don't understand how anyone could do something like this to a child."

As the incident occurred so close to Thanksgiving, Karnes said, there could have been people coming and going from the family's house.

Everyone who was in that home is being questioned and no one has yet been ruled out as a suspect in the child's death, Karnes said.

Police initially seized the infant's bedding and some of her diapers from the house in hopes of obtaining evidence, Karnes said. Officers returned Monday night and removed a curling iron and a hair straightening iron.

While he hasn't officially been named as a suspect, the investigation is focused on Richardson because of his criminal past.

"I'm not foolish enough to ignore that," Karnes said.

Richardson has two prior convictions for domestic violence and is on probation for a controlled- substance conviction in Roscommon County, court records show.

He also has been arrested at least two other times on domestic violence charges, but those cases were dismissed when the alleged victim failed to show in court. The girlfriend in question is the same woman in at least one of those cases.

Police Detective Lt. John Martin said his department is learning new information about the case every day.

"All of this stuff kind of ties together," he said. "We're still putting a lot of pieces together."

Karnes %u2014 a father of three and president of the Michigan district's Exchange Club, whose primary mission is to prevent child abuse %u2014 said this case has been especially hard for him to handle.

"This is a terrible crime," he said. "It's the worst thing I have ever come in contact with and it's the worst thing I've ever heard of."PLease sign this petiton but don't stop there also contact the Govener in Michigan and the Attorney General to make sure we get justice for this little girl, she was only on this earth nine days but lets not let her be forgotten.

Governor Jennifer M. Granholm
P.O. Box 30013
Lansing, Michigan 48909 PHONE: (517) 373-3400
PHONE: (517) 335-7858 - Constituent Services
FAX:(517) 335-6863

Attroney General Mike Cox

Cadillac Place, 10th Floor
3030 W. Grand Blvd., Suite 10-200
Detroit, MI 48202
(313) 456-0240
Facsimile (313) 456-0061

mailto:miag@michigan.gov

Malaysian Bar Council Press Statement: Denial of bail to Hindraf supporters

Contributed by Ambiga Sreenevasan
Thursday, 06 December 2007, 10:29pm

There is little doubt that Article 145(3) confers upon the Attorney General a power exercisable in his discretion to institute proceedings for an offence. The power is a wide one and as in the case of any power, the wider it is, the greater is the onus to exercise it with proportionality and even-handedness.

The Malaysian Bar is therefore shocked at the Attorney-General’s decision to prosecute 31 persons (who were allegedly involved in the illegal assembly), for attempted murder. The Malaysian Bar is further disappointed at the vigorous opposition by the Attorney-General to their bail application. Their prosecution and denial of bail pending a trial, which may be years away means that persons who are innocent until proven guilty are denied their freedom. Surely, no fundamental right is more precious than the right to life and liberty enshrined in Article 5(1) of the Federal Constitution. There is an impression that the denial of bail is being used as a punitive measure against those charged.

The Bar Council appeals to the authorities to exercise restraint in the treatment of our citizens who are exercising their constitutional rights. We do not condone physical violence against anyone including the police. Equally we do not condone violence to the spirit of the law that is there to protect all.

Ambiga Sreenevasan

President Malaysian Bar

6 December 2007

RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Where is Artur Akhmatkhanov?

RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Where is Artur Akhmatkhanov?

Appeal status: Active
Appeal started: December 2007

“Even today I think, maybe today, maybe tomorrow they will give my son back to me… Every night he appears in my sleep and I cry all the time… That is not a life any more. For me everything came to a halt. I just walk over the earth.”Bilat Akhmatkhanova, Artur Akhmatkhanov's mother.

On 2 April 2003 Artur Akhmatkhanov, a student and human rights defender, was arrested in Grozny, Chechnya, apparently by masked members of the Russian federal forces. They covered his head and forced him into an armoured personnel carrier. He has not been seen since. He had been married for just one month.

At the time of his disappearance Artur Akhmatkhanov was a volunteer at the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, a human rights organization.

In a letter to local Chechen authorities in March 2004, a military commander denied any involvement by the Russian military in Artur Akhmatkhanov’s disappearance. An official investigation into his disappearance, which was launched on 4 April 2003, was suspended.

The Russian non-governmental organization Memorial has estimated that between 3,000 and 5,000 men, women and children have been forcibly disappeared or abducted in Chechnya since 1999.

Artur Akhmatkhanov’s mother, Bilat Akhmatkhanova, continues to search for her son in mass graves, places of detention and other places where she fears he may be held. She has not given up hope that her son is still alive.

Please write, calling on the Russian authorities to: ensure that Artur Akhmatkhanov's disappearance is fully investigated; make public the official list of all missing people in Chechnya; ensure full and impartial investigations into the mass graves in Chechnya; and provide protection from intimidation for witnesses and relatives.

Send appeals to:
Vladimir Putin
President of the Russian Federation
103132 g. Moscow
4 Staraya Ploshchad (or Old Square)
Russian Federation
Or you can send an email via this website: www.kremlin.ru/eng/articles/send_letter_Eng1a.shtml
Salutation: Dear President Putin

CHINA: Falun Gong practitioner detained without trial

Appeal status: Active

Appeal started: December 2007

Bu Dongwei, a Falun Gong practitioner, is serving two and a half years of “Re-education Through Labour” (RTL) for exercising his right of freedom of religion. He is being held at the Tuanhe facility in Beijing where he does packaging work.

Bu Dongwei was arrested in May 2006 by seven police officers. His family did not know what had happened to him until three months after his arrest. He was assigned to RTL for “resisting the implementation of national laws” and “disturbing public order” on the basis of a verbal confession and 80 copies of Falun Gong literature that the police say they found in his home. He has not been brought before a court, and the authorities claim that he decided not to appeal against his imprisonment.

In August 2000 Bu Dongwei was assigned to 10 months’ RTL for his religious beliefs. He said he was beaten, deprived of sleep and made to sit in a small chair all day to force him to renounce his beliefs.

Tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners have been arbitrarily detained in China since 1999 when the organization was banned. Alleged organizers or leaders have been sentenced to prison terms and others have been held in psychiatric hospitals.

RTL is a system of administrative detention imposed by the police without charge, trial or judicial review and in violation of international fair trial standards. Recent efforts to abolish the system appear to have stalled within China’s legislature. Beijing city authorities have extended the use of RTL as a pretext to “clean up” the city in the run-up to the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Please write, calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Bu Dongwei as a prisoner of conscience. Pending his release, urge the authorities to allow regular visits by his family, access to a lawyer and medical treatment. Ask for a guarantee that he is not subjected to torture or other ill-treatment during his detention. Please also call for the abolition of the RTL system.

Send appeals to: Wen Jiabao Guojia Zongli, Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China, The State Council General Office, 2 Fuyoujie, Xichengqu, Beijingshi 100017, People’s Republic of China

Fax: +86 10 6596 1109 (c/o Minister of Foreign Affair)

Email: gazette@mail.gov.cn

Salutation: Your Excellency

Prosecution and defence teams trade words during tense proceedings

http://videos.thestar.com.my/default.aspx?vid=678

SHAH ALAM: It was a dramatic start to the trial of 26 people alleged to be Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) supporters in a packed and heavily-guarded Sessions Court here yesterday as a high-powered prosecution team crossed swords with a huge group of defence lawyers.

The suspects, detained by police in Batu Caves on Nov 25, claimed trial to various charges including taking part in an illegal assembly and causing damage to public property during the tense proceedings tinged with racial overtones.

They were also charged with using criminal force on a policeman with intent to cause death.

Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Ghani Patail himself led the prosecution team.

Seventeen lawyers appeared for the defence.

Three volunteer lawyers from the Bar Council for the defence discharged themselves after one of them, Rajpal Singh, disagreed with Hindraf lawyer P. Uthayakumar’s racial slant.

Judge Azimah Omar told the defence lawyers not to be emotional

Cancel the One-semester Suspension of Lee Song Yong

To: Y. B. Dato' Mustapa bin Mohamed (Higher Education Minister of Malaysia)

To all,

Lee Song Yong, second year Computer Science student from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) has been suspended for one semester by the Disciplinary Board of UPM on 22 November 2007 after he was found guilty for not cooperating with security guard, questioning the task of security guard and obstructing the security guard from executing his duty, responsibility and functions.

Background of the Incident

The incident happened in 22 August 2007, where Lee who is stopped at guard house refused to let his bag to be checked because there was no explanation from the security guard. Three plain clothes officer from Special Task Unit who arrived later grabbed the matric card and notebook from Lee without Lee¡¯s consent. Lee lodged a police report on the same day. Three days later, a complaint has also been made against the security officer at the Security Department.

The campus authority did not take any action against the security guards who had abused his power and did not respect the rights and privacy of the student. Instead the same security guards had accused Lee on 14 November 2007 alleging that he did not cooperate and had challenged the security guard.

The first proceeding on 19 November 2007 has been adjourned to 22 November 2007. In that proceeding, Disciplinary Board has decided to impose heavy penalty which is to suspend him for one semester of study and warning was given.

The Power of Security Guard in UPM exceeds that of Police Force

In this case, we have seen that the power of the security guard exceeds that of police which is stated in Criminal Procedure Code (CPC), police can only do checking by giving explanation and follow strict procedures. It was obvious that security guard had abuse his power.

This incident also shows that the campus authority sides the security guard. The suspension shows that they want to create a climate of fear among the students and want the students to obey the limitless power of the security guard.

Despite calls by the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) to halt the proceedings due to allegations of human rights infringement, the proceedings went on. The university¡¯s administrative authority still held the proceedings in a hurry and imposes penalty onto Lee.

The Unfair Proceedings

The procedure of the hearing is obviously violating the basic rights of the student. Despite given a short notice to the hearing which make it difficult for Lee to make peparation, he was also denied legal representation by the campus authority. This is a violation of right to counsel which is included in Article 5(3) in Federal Constitution.

Demands

DEMA calls upon the campus authority of UPM to cancel the unreasonable punishment towards Lee, state the checking procedure of security guard and take action against the security officers who had abused their power.

Release by,

Malaysia Youth and Students Democratic Movement (DEMA)


PETITION

To:
Y. B. Dato' Mustapa bin Mohamed
Minister of Higher Education,
Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia.

CC:
Prof. Datuk Dr. Nik Mustapha bin R. Abdullah
Vice Chancellor of Universiti Putra Malaysia.

Cancellation of The Suspension for One Semester of Lee Song Yong Immediately

We/I oppose to the action of campus authority that imposes one semester suspension penalty to Lee Song Yong, a second year Computer Science student from Universiti Putra Malaysia who stopped at guard house and refused to let his bag to be checked because there is no explanation from the security guard.

2. We strongly feel that the penalty should be cancelled because:
a. Lee Song Yong had given enough cooperation to the security guard by showing his matric card and waiting for the explanation before allowing his bag to be checked.
b. Security guard did not explain the reason/purpose to examine student¡¯s bag. Even police also needs to tell the purpose before any checking.
c. The officer who acted violently, did not introduce himself and seized Lee¡¯s belongings was not investigated.

3. We/I feel that, the punishment towards Lee Song Yong shows that campus authority sided security officers who abused their power and did not respect the rights and privacy of students. The penalty of suspension has created fear among students and make student have to obey to the limitless power of security guard.

4. We urge that campus authority
a. Cancel the suspension of one semester to Lee Song Yong immediately
b. State the checking procedure of security guard clearly
c. Take action against the security officers that abused their power

Besides that, we also call upon campus authority to stop any action that violates the rights of students in UPM and created a climate of fear among the students in the university. Campus authority should take care of the welfare and safety of the students and not being a threat to them.

http://www.petitiononline.com/notoUUCA/petition-sign.html

Kindly sign the above petition.


Sincerely,

Steven

Factory shut down! - Workers fury as boss flees

FACTORY SHUT DOWN !

WORKERS FURY AS BOSS FLEES ………….

Cosmoplus Industries shut down abruptly leaving more than a 100 workers dry and shocked. Until the last minute, they were still doing overtime until they received a one paragraph letter telling them that their work has been terminated.

It was a 24 hour notice. This morning workers gathered outside the factory but the gates were closed and guarded by Guards employed by the Bank which have sealed the factory claiming that the factory has gone bankrupt.

Workers expressed their frustration by carrying placards and shouting slogans against their boss, who until the end squeezed them dry and high. The workers were not paid their last month salary as well as compensations. Some of the workers have worked since the factory started some 18 years ago. A large number of workers were also seen lamenting as Deepavali were just two away and they need money.

It is believed that the company is owned by share holders from Singapore and manufacturers plastic mould. Also frustrating was that some workers have evidence that a few days ago, the company has moved some of the machinery to another factory in Asa Jaya. When workers asked if the company was shutting down, the Manager denied and this denial was until the last minute.

At the factory today were press reporters as well as representatives from JERIT and PSM. The Coalition of Workers and Factory (GPKK-JERIT) has previously demanded that the Government set up a retrenchment fund like EPF and SOCSO for retrenched workers. The idea which was supported by MTUC was rejected by the employer’s association. The spineless Government of Badawi has since not implemented this legislation. Under the current practice, once a company goes bankrupt, it would take years for the compensation to be paid and in most cases workers will not see a single cent at end of the day.

The government should look seriously on this matters.

Culprits must be taken into the action and they must be answerable to the Justice.

Steven
stands4justice@gmail.com

Amnesty International Malaysia

Below is the Amnesty International Malaysia's public statement on the excessive use of force by the police on HINDRAF supporters at the public rally on the 25th November 2007. Please feel free to forward this to your networks. AI Malaysia is closely monitoring developments in this area with SUARAM and other human rights groups.

Amnesty International Malaysia - Public Statement

HINDRAF Public Assembly: Respect and implement the Royal Commissions recommendations on policing immediately

Amnesty International Malaysia is gravely concerned over recent events regarding the conduct and response by the Royal Malaysian Police towards freedom of assembly in Malaysia. It is our view that the police haveresorted to unnecessary use of force on peaceful demonstrators and arbitrary arrests of hundreds of people for exercising their constitutional rights.Amnesty International is also seriously concerned over the act of intimidation and harassment based on racial profiling in the setting up of roadblocks before the November 25 rally. We are also alarmed at the unprecedented act of obtaining a blanket unilateral restraining order without the other party being given a right to be heard, hence imposing an unfounded opinion that public assembly is an act of nuisance and a threat to public safety.

In view of all this, we regret that the police continue to undermine the constitutional rights to peaceful assembly and personal liberties even after the matter had been strongly addressed by the Royal Commission to Enhance the Operation and Management of the Royal Malaysia Police in 2005.

The right to assembly is a fundamental inherent right of all persons as provided in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Federal Constitution. In 2005, the Royal Commission to Enhance the Operation and Management of the Royal Malaysia Police, in recognition of this right,proposed an amendment to section 27 of the Police Act 1967 that imposes the requirement of a permit and the absolute discretion on the police to grant approval to public assemblies. This important recommendation was also echoed by the Report of the SUHAKAM Public Inquiry into the Incident at KLCC on 28May 2006.

We regret that this recommendation has yet to be implemented by the government and public assemblies continue to be clamped down with excessive force as witnessed in the public rallies held on November 10 and 25 respectively. Amnesty International views that the police have the responsibility to abide by international standards for law enforcement officials, set out in the UN Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials and the UN Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, which stipulate that law enforcement officials must maintain and uphold the human rights of all persons in the performance oftheir duties.

Amnesty International Malaysia also emphasizes that the authorities must respect the right not to be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention, andnot to arrest or detain anyone for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. Amnesty International reiterates its call on the Malaysian Government to respect the findings and recommendations made the Royal Commission to Enhance the Operation and Management of the Royal Malaysia Police and to amend Section 27 of the Police Act and to immediately implement the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission(IPCMC) as well as all the recommendations made in Chapter 10 of the commission's report. Amnesty International Malaysia also strongly urges the Royal Malaysian Police to respect and protect the rights of the people to peaceful assembly and their personal liberties.

Released by

K.Shan

Campaigns Coordinator

Amnesty International Malaysia

Background InformationAll the recommendations contained in Chapter 10 of Royal Commissions Reportthat address the issue of human rights obligations and policing are yet tobe implemented as of today.

Shanon Shah

Executive Director

Amnesty International Malaysia

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