Thursday, 16 Jul 2020 09:55 PM MYTPeople hold placards during the Malaysia's Custodial Death Black Thursday organised by Eliminating Death & Abuse In Custody Together at the Klang River in Kuala Lumpur July 16, 2020. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
Called “Malaysia’s Custodial Death Black Thursday” and jointly organised by the Malaysian chapter of Amnesty International and a local movement, Eliminating Deaths and Abuse in Custody , the memorial took place near the Malaysian Bar headquarters here. “This year is 2020. The IPCMC idea, model was mooted way back in 2005. It was a proposed set-up by a Royal Commission of Inquiry to enhance the operation and management of the Malaysian police,” said the Malaysian Bar’s human rights committee chairman Datuk Roger Chan.“We asked for the IPCMC and what did you give us? You gave us the EAIC and nothing came out of that,” he added, referring to the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission that was created by an Act of Parliament in 2009.
Chan called on the government to show it has the political will and “consciousness” to do what is right.
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