Detainee hangs himself in Sungai Siput police station

A male detainee was found dead and hanging in a lockup at the Sungai Siput police headquarters yesterday.

Perak deputy police chief Hasnan Hassan said the 39-year-old detainee was found at about 12.10pm while a police officer was carrying out routine patrol at the lockup.

"The detainee was found hanging using the T-shirt supplied to him and an inquiry had been carried out by the coroner from the Sungai Siput Magistrate's Court.

"Based on the autopsy report, the detainee's death was caused by a neck compression due to hanging while no other injury was found," he said in a statement last night.

According to Hasnan, during the incident the detainee, who was arrested on May 2 for a drug offence, was alone in the lockup.

He added that the deceased was remanded from Tuesday until May 16 and had four previous criminal records involving drugs.

- Bernama

Tell me what you think of these photos??

By Siti Kassim


Tell me what you think of these photos?? I am extremely disturbed by these...
Apparently these photos were on Instagram posted by a teacher from a kindergarten in Kota Damansara!! It's called Tadika Bistari. The teacher and the kids are holding weapons! Maybe plastic but a kindergarden? In a pre-school? WTF is she teaching??
They are from this school called KUDQI (Kolej University Darul Quran Islamiyah). I was told its a branch of Jemaah Islamiyah! Their headquarters is in Terengganu.
What kind of Islam do you think they are teaching the kids you think? I hope the authorities will look into this....

https://www.facebook.com/sitikasim/posts/10209556188004359?pnref=story

WATCH: ISIS in Philippines Beheads Canadian John Ridsdel

By Sam Prince

In a new video purportedly released by Islamic State affiliate Abu Sayyaf, Canadian hostage John Ridsdel is beheaded after Canada’s refusal to pay the terrorists his ransom. The brutal video was released on ISIS terrorist channels on May 3 under the title “Abu Sayyaf Hostage BEHEADED Pt.1.” News of his death first broke in late April.

Ridsdel appeared in a ransom video released in November 2015 by Abu Sayyaf, the second time he was forced on camera following his kidnapping in September. He appeared along with Robert Hall, also of Canada, and Kjartan Sekkingstad of Norway. A third woman in the video, who appeared Filipino, did not speak. It was unclear if she was a hostage, too. Watch that video here.

In March, Abu Sayyaf set a one-month deadline in another video threat, then released a final 10-day warning in mid April, setting April 25 as the last date to receive a ransom payment before a hostage would be killed. Ridsdel’s death was reported on April 25.

Abu Sayyaf means “father of the swordsmith” in Arabic. According to The International Business Times, senior Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon and other masked men pledged their allegiance to ISIS in a summer of 2014 video.

In the latest video, ISIS crudely beheads Ridsdel. Watch the video above. Viewer discretion is advised.

Lawyer outraged at pix of gun-toting kids in army fatigues

Siti Kasim shares the photograph taken at a kindergarten in Kota Damansara and asks if pre-schoolers are being brainwashed to become militants in the name of jihad.

PETALING JAYA: Are kindergarten-going children being brainwashed to become militants in the name of jihad?

That’s the question lawyer and activist Siti Kasim asked in her latest Facebook posting where she shared a photograph showing kids, purportedly from a kindergarten in Kota Damansara, standing with their teacher while holding toy guns and dressed in military fatigues.

The photo was apparently posted by the teacher in her Instagram account.

Outraged at the implication, Siti asked: “Tell me what you think of these photos. I am extremely disturbed by these.

“The teacher and the kids are holding weapons! Maybe plastic but a kindergarten? In a pre-school? (expletives) is she teaching?”

According to Siti, the teacher is from the Darul Quran Islamiyah College University (KUDQI) based in Terengganu, which she claimed was a branch of Jemaah Islamiyah.

“What kind of Islam do you think they are teaching the kids, you think? I hope the authorities will look into this,” she said.

Netizens also expressed horror at the post, and called on the authorities to check on the kind of curriculum the kindergarten used for its students.

At the time of writing, the post had been shared close to 300 times and “liked” by more than 360 people.

The outspoken lawyer is currently under probe for criminal intimidation and for allegedly obstructing a public servant from carrying out his duties, when she stood up for members of the transgender community during a raid by religious authorities recently.

First Muslim Miss USA converts to Christianity

The woman who was believed to be the first Muslim to win the title when she was crowned Miss USA in 2010 has converted to Christianity.

By Ruth Gledhill

Rima Fakih gave her life to Christ last month in the run-up to her marriage in Lebanon next week to Wassim Salibi, a wealthy music producer who is a Maronite Christian. Canadian singer The Weeknd, who is managed by Salibi, will perform at the wedding.

Fakih recently tweeted a verse from Philippians:

Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me pic.twitter.com/RSTZ9IJD3Z

— Rima Fakih (@RimaFakih) March 30, 2016

Fakih's faith was Shia Muslim but she attended a Catholic school.

In a Huffington Post interview in 2010 she said: "We're more of a spiritual family. Religion really doesn't define me or my family. My family's been very liberal, and we appreciate all different kinds of religions."

She added: "My brother-in-law is Christian, and he (and my sister) baptised their two sons. I have an uncle who converted to Christianity, and he's a priest now."

She said: "We'd go to church on Easter. We always had a Christmas tree and every year we go the Radio City Christmas Show, and watch Miracle on 34th Street. But we celebrate some of the Islamic holidays as well."

According to Albawaba, It was only when she went to university in the US that Fakih connected with her Muslim roots: "When I went to the University of Michigan, because there's more of a Muslim community, my dad wanted me to learn more about Islam," she said. "I didn't know much about Ramadan and other holidays, and my dad wanted me to take that opportunity and learn."

On social media, most responses have been supportive of her conversion.

After she won the top beauty pageant, Fakih was quoted as saying: "I'd like to say I'm American first, and I am an Arab-American, I am Lebanese-American, and I am Muslim-American." Some Muslim scholars at the time criticised her for entering the competition in the first place.

No more police escorts for Dr M

KOTA KINABALU: Police will now accord Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad traffic police escorts only upon request for official functions.

"We will consider traffic police escorts for Tun Mahathir on a case-by-case basis,’’ Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said.

Khalid said he decided to withdraw the police outriders privilege for the former prime minister because he was attending functions that were "anti-government or illegal" such as the Bersih and anti-GST rallies.

"It is my decision to withdraw the outriders as he (Dr Mahathir) was attending illegal functions. It does not make sense as law enforcers to escort someone to an anti-government or an illegal rally.

"But, I did not withdraw his personal bodyguard who is a policeman from the UTK (Unit Tindakan Khas) for his personal safety," Khalid told reporters after presenting medals to 200 policemen who served during Ops Daulat to put down the Sulu intrusion at Lahad Datu in 2013.

"Why should we provide traffic police escort to a person who is going to functions which are against the law,’’ he said.

Khalid said Dr Mahathir could write to him for outriders for all official government functions .

"I hope Tun Mahathir understand our position on the matter,’’ he added.

Khalid warned others not to provide escort services to the former premier as they were not trained and would be endangering their own lives and those of other road users.

"I know some people are saying they want to provide traffic escort services. We will take action against such people who want to become outriders,’’ he said adding that there were sufficient laws, including the Road Transport Act, that can be used against them.

He said motorists need not follow the "orders" of the private escorts who were usually riding the big bikes.

IGP: Manhunt on, Indira’s ex-spouse likely still in Malaysia

KOTA KINABALU, May 4 ― The police are still searching for M. Indira Gandhi’s ex-husband and believe that Muhammad Riduan Abdullah remains in Malaysia, Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said today.

The IGP said that he had instructed officers to locate and to arrest the Muslim convert for contempt of court in the interfaith child custody case the same day he received orders from the Federal Court to do so.

“We have taken all necessary measures to ensure that he is picked up. We have tried to locate him from the day the court order was issued.

“There is no information to show that he has left the country. But we are still checking on that,” said Khalid at a press conference here after presenting some 200 general operations force members with medals for their service during Ops Daulat.

Last Friday, the Federal Court ordered the IGP to arrest Muhammad Riduan for contempt of court, over his refusal to hand custody of their youngest child ― Prasana Diksa to her in the high-profile child conversion case.

The Federal Court also upheld the initial mandamus order issued by the Ipoh High Court to Khalid, ordering the court to monitor the procedures to track and to arrest Muhammad Riduan.

The court ruled that the committal order against Muhammad Riduan was justified as he has repeatedly failed to produce the couple’s child — Prasana Diksa, now aged eight — in court.

The Ipoh High Court in 2010 had granted Indira full custody of all three children.

Indira told Malay Mail Online recently that she was depending on the police to locate her ex-husband and daughter, saying she could not afford a private investigator to find the two.

Al-Ḥajar al-Aswad (Black Stone)

MIC offers RM5,000 reward to find Indira’s ex-husband

KUALA LUMPUR, May 4 ― MIC is offering a RM5,000 reward to anyone who can locate Muhammad Riduan Abdullah, the former husband of M. Indira Gandhi who has absconded with their youngest child whom he unilaterally converted to Islam.

National MIC information committee member Subash Chandra Bose said his party was keen to help the police in their manhunt for the Hindu-turned-Muslim father of three, wanted for contempt of court.

“He is a fugitive of the law and he must be caught. We want to help the police in whatever way we can and we want to rope in our fellow Malaysians in this too,” he told Malay Mail Online this evening when contacted.

Subash who is also Selangor MIC Youth information chief said he wanted to help see justice done for Indira who has been separated from daughter Prasana Diksa the last seven years.

“If Riduan is law abiding, he would have come out of hiding himself. But it has been few days since the Federal Court verdict, and he is still in hiding somewhere. He is outrightly challenging the law.

“So, we are offering this reward to whoever who can track down Riduan and alert us or the police,” he added.

Last Friday, the Federal Court ordered the police to arrest Muhammad Riduan for contempt of court over his refusal to hand custody of Prasana to Indira in the high-profile child conversion case.

Earlier today, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar announced the hunt for Muhammad Riduan, believed to still be in the country, started the same day he received the court order.

Indira was forced to separate from her younger daughter when Prasana was only 11 months old.

She was given full custody of all three children by the civil High Court, but her ex-husband was awarded custody by the Perak Shariah Court, triggering a bitter custody battle that drew national attention.

Muslim lawyers: Govt must explain flip-flop in Roneey’s case

Muslim Lawyers Association of Malaysia (PPMM) president says government has the right to decide on withdrawal of appeal by NRD but this has to be done fairly.

Putrajaya must explain the flip-flop in appealing the High Court’s decision on the Roneey Rebit religious conversion case, says Muslim Lawyers Association of Malaysia (PPMM) president Zainul Rijal Abu Bakar.

In commenting on claims that Prime Minister Najib Razak and Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem had meddled in the National Registration Department’s (NRD) appeal in the case, Zainul said the government had the right to decide to withdraw the appeal.

However, he said this had to be done fairly and justice must not only be done but seen to be done.

“If it is done for ‘election’ benefit, the perception is that justice is not done,” he told FMT.

He opined that the government should not have appealed in the first place and the withdrawal of appeal now signifies a change in policy.

This, he said, was something the government needed to clear the air on.

Zainul said because the issue arose during election campaigning, some quarters felt it was a case of meddling in the court process.

“Every litigant has his right to continue or discontinue a legal process, but it seems that it was done for reasons which are very apparent, namely the election campaign,” he said, noting it was very much contrary to previous decisions made by the government on similar cases.

A Sarawakian lawyer, who declined to be named, also said Najib and Adenan had not meddled in the matter.

“The NRD comes under the executive and the executive has the right to advise the department, so it cannot be considered as meddling,
“The executive would only be meddling if the case was in the midst of hearing,” said the lawyer.

Yesterday, NRD Director-General Sulaiman Keling said the department, after careful study, would apply to withdraw its appeal against the court decision allowing Roneey to renounce Islam and return to Christianity.

In response, Malay rights groups Perkasa and Isma, as well as Amanah lawmaker Mujahid Rawa, had decried the executive’s meddling in the issue and said due legal process should be allowed to continue.

Court prolongs mystery over PI Bala's five-year exile

Just what led to the late private investigator P Balasubramaniam and his family to go on exile for five years, will take a bit longer to be known.

The Federal Court today granted carpet businessman Deepak Jaikishian a stay in the suit of Balasubramaniam's widow A Santamil Selvi and her three children against him, at the High Court in Kuala Lumpur today.

Deepak was allowed leave to challenge the reinstatement of Santamil's suit against him, which is for conspiracy to place her and her family under exile.

Balasubramaniam, also known as PI Bala, first shot to prominence after he appeared at a press conference on July 3, 2008, linking then Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to murdered Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu in a statutory declaration (SD).

However, Balasubramaniam abruptly disclaimed the SD on the next day with a second SD, and subsequently left the country together with his family.

Today, the three-member bench led by Chief Judge of Malaya Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin which allowed the stay, also allowed leave for three questions of law proposed by Deepak's lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah to be heard on appeal, after the appellate court reinstated the suit and ordered a hearing at the KL High Court.

"We are unanimous in our decision to grant all three questions proposed. We will fix an early hearing date for this appeal."

Shafee gave an undertaking that he will file the appeal papers next week.

On Dec 18 last year, the Court of Appeal bench allowed Santamil Selvi's suit to be reinstated against Deepak and ordered for a full hearing of the matter.

Deepak was earlier scheduled to file his defence by May 19.

The other two judges in the panel are Justices Ahmad Ma'arop and Azahar Mohamed.

Lawyers Gopal Sri Ram (photo) and Americk Sidhu, who are acting for for Santamil, then informed the panel that they are seeking for their leave application on a question of law following a consent judgment allowed by the Court of Appeal be heard later pending the outcome of Deepak's appeal.

To this, Justice Zulkefli allowed the leave application by Santamil be deferred.

Three questions of law posed

The questions of law posed by Shafee to be decided by the apex court are:

1. whether as a matter of procedural law an objection to a notice of appeal being defective and/or bad in law can be undertaken by way of a mere preliminary objection.
2. whether the filing of a single notice of appeal in respect of eight separate distinct interlocutory applications is in compliance with the procedural rules as set out in the Rules of the Court of Appeal 1995;
3. whether as a matter of law a claim of conspiracy to injure can be maintained and/or is valid when the claims against all other alleged co-conspirators has been dismissed and/or struck out inter alia on the basis that there were no reasonable cause of action raised by the plaintiffs. Sri Ram, a former federal court judge, told the court earlier that he is conceding the second question posed.

It was previously reported on June 2014, that Santamil and her children had filed close to a RM2 million suit against Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor along with seven others, including Deepak following the family's exile for five years after Balasubramaniam made the first statutory declaration.

Also named in the suit were Najib's younger brothers Ahmad Johari (lawyer) and Nazim, along with senior lawyer Cecil Abraham, his son Sunil Abraham, lawyer M Arunampalam (the lawyer who appeared for PI Bala in the second SD) and commissioner of oaths Zainal Abidin Muhayat.

She and the children filed the suit following Balasubramaniam and their five-year exile as a result of the SD saga in July 2008, where the former private investigator had firstly claimed that Najib knew and had a relationship with Mongolian lass Altantuya Shaariibuu who was murdered in a forest in Puncak Alam on Oct 19, 2006.

Suit struck out

Her suit against Najib, Rosmah, and the others excluding Deepak had been struck out by the High Court, Court of Appeal and Federal Court.

Despite this, Santamil's suit against Deepak still stood as the businessman had earlier on Oct 2, last year, recorded the consent order, after he conceded on allowing the hearing of the suit against him.

Deepak however withdrew what he conceded, resulting in a hearing and a decision by the Court of Appeal to reinstate the suit and order the matter to go on trial.

In his submission on the questions of law today, Shafee asked how the court hearing can continue when the evidence that Santamil likely to relate may be hearsay as PI Bala had already passed away.

Sri Ram however submitted that the court should not allow the other two questions as "what Shafee wants us to do is pre-judge the issue that the suit should be dismissed and struck out because there is no reasonable cause of action by the plaintiffs".



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