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Kugan

Aminulrasyid’s shooting not isolated

By The Fairly Current Show

May 6, 2010

THE fatal police shooting of 15-year-old schoolboy Aminulrasyid Amzah on 26 April 2010 has profoundly shocked the nation. The Fairly Current Show host Fahmi Fadzil speaks with lawyer Puspa Rosman, who will be acting on behalf of Aminulrasyid’s family, about the issue of police power, and politicking that surrounds Aminulrasyid’s case. These include the ongoing […]

Making Kugan’s death matter

By Zedeck Siew

March 10, 2009

(Pic by Mark Coggins / Flickr) THE fresh findings on what caused A Kugan’s death while in police custody are horrific and outrageous. Politicians, civil society groups and citizens have all expressed shock and anger. Unfortunately, Kugan’s death is not an isolated incident. In February 2005, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, in his capacity as […]

Kugan was beaten, says second post-mortem (Updated 7.05pm)

By Zedeck Siew

March 3, 2009

PETALING JAYA: A second post-mortem conducted on A Kugan, who died while in police custody, shows that he was beaten so badly he died of kidney failure. The new autopsy, which was conducted by Universiti Malaya Medical Centre’s pathologist Dr Prashant N Samberkar, concluded that “blunt trauma to skeletal muscles” caused a breakdown in muscle […]

Kugan case: Police papers to be submitted tomorrow

February 2, 2009

KUALA LUMPUR, 2 Feb 2009: The police will submit the investigation papers on the death of car theft suspect A Kugan to the Attorney-General’s chambers tomorrow, Selangor police chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said today. “The investigation papers sent last week lacked several crucial information and the police have improved them but I don’t want […]

Kugan’s final journey

By Deborah Loh and Zedeck Siew

January 28, 2009

Corrected on 28 Jan 2009 at 11.30pm IT was not an ordinary death, and so it was not an ordinary funeral. A Kugan’s funeral on 28 Jan 2009 drew hundreds of people who followed his body in a procession from the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) across Petaling Jaya to Puchong Batu 14, where he […]

Six people arrested at Kugan’s funeral (Updated)

January 28, 2009

(Updated 7:43pn, 28 Jan 2009) KUALA LUMPUR, 28 Jan 2009: Six men, one of them a wanted criminal, were arrested at the funeral today of A Kugan, who died in police custody, at the main entrance of the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) in Petaling Jaya. Brickfields police chief ACP Wan Abdul Bari Wan Abdul […]

Don’t regard criminals as heroes: Syed Hamid

January 28, 2009

PUTRAJAYA, 28 Jan 2009: The people should not regard criminals as heroes and the police who enforce the law as demons, Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said today. Speaking in general terms, he said no one was above the law and added that action would be taken against those who broke the law, […]

Police arrest five outside UMMC mortuary

January 28, 2009

PETALING JAYA, 28 Jan 2009: Police arrested five men from among a crowd outside the mortuary of the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) today just before the hearse bearing the body of A Kugan was to begin the funeral procession to Puchong. Three of the men were held for wearing T-shirts bearing the word “Hindraf”, […]

Policing must change

By Josef Roy Benedict

January 28, 2009

THE alleged murder of Kugan Ananthan clearly illustrates that policing in this country must change once and for all. There have been too many cases of police misconduct and abuse where internal investigations fail to bring perpetrators to justice. A frequent response to inquiries about the investigation of a complaint of police abuse, particularly when […]

Kugan buried in Puchong (Final update at 7.00pm)

By Deborah Loh and Zedeck Siew

January 28, 2009

Corrected on 28 Jan 2009 at 6.10pm Updated on 28 Jan 2009 at 7.00pm Demonstrator’s tshirt slogan demanding justice, outside UMMC PUCHONG JAYA: 28 Jan 2009: A Kugan’s body was lowered into the ground at a Puchong cemetery today at 5.25pm, surrounded by about 500 mourners despite an earlier downpour. “One of the reasons he […]

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