Selangor Council of Justices of the Peace (JPs) urges Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng to step forward and provide proof that political aide Teoh Beng Hock was murdered.
Seri Kembangan state assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah is to be called up by the police over a statement he had made, which allegedly intimidated the police.
Selangor police chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said today Hian Wah’s statement in the media directing the police to cease their investigation of Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng seemed like an attempt to intimidate the police.
“I wish to stress that the Honourable Member should not try to intimidate us by directing us to cease the investigation of Guan Eng,” he told reporters at a gathering between the people and the police, here.
He said Yong would be called up soon to have a statement recorded to help in an investigation under Section 506 of the Penal Code and the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998.
Khalid had said earlier that the Penang chief minister would be questioned for claiming, at the Pakatan Rakyat convention in Shah Alam on Dec 19, that Selangor political aide Teoh Beng Hock, who died after a fall at the Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam, was murdered.
DAP MP raps cops for ‘intimidating’ critics
DAP Bukit Bendera MP Liew Chin Tong today lambasted the police for using laws such as the Sedition Act and the Communications and Multimedia Act in an effort to quell dissenting views expressed by the public.
Citing DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng's recent case where he is being investigated under the Sedition Act as an example, Liew (picture) said the police action was "deplorable".
"Police investigations of Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng over his statement on the death of Teoh Beng Hock and the subsequent police action to interrogate DAP Selangor chairman and Selangor government exco Ean Yong Hian Wah over his statement on the probe on Guan Eng are most deplorable," said the Bukit Bendera MP in a statement.
The police invoked the controversial Sedition Act to launch an investigation on Lim for claiming, at the Pakatan Rakyat’s inaugural convention on Dec 19 in Shah Alam, that Teoh was killed.
Thai forensic pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunan, after studying the autopsy report, photographs and X-rays made available to her by the authorities, testified in the Shah Alam coroner’s court last October that Teoh's death could be “80 per cent homicide”.
Besides the Penang CM, Liew also cited Ean Yong’s case where the police are currently in the process of investigating him.
Ean Yong is said to have “intimidated” the police by calling for the police to cease the probe on Lim and is to be investigated under section 506 of the Penal Code and the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998.
"Since when have the police gained such clout that their actions are beyond public scrutiny and criticism? By investigating Ean Yong for his criticism on police action erstwhile, the police are clearly ‘intimidating’ their critics.
"It is the most regrettable that the police have decided on such a harsh and draconian course to quell views expressed in the public sphere. It is a sad end to a sad year for human rights and democracy in Malaysia, as well as a distressing closing of a decade full of instances of abuses of power by the police," said Liew.
The DAP man added that people want to know whether the police action was part of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s National Key Result Areas (NKRA) approach, among other things, to reduce the crime rate.
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