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The Malaysian authorities must initiate an independent, impartial, prompt and effective investigation into the death of 22-year-old Kugan Ananthan, Amnesty International said today, amid reports that he may have been tortured in police custody.
The young man died on 20 January after being held for five days in the Taipan Police station in Subang Jaya in west Malaysia on suspicion of stealing cars. State Police Chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar has said that Kugan was being questioned by an investigating officer when he asked for a glass of water and suddenly collapsed. Police initially cl... Read more
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Egyptians Protest Police Abuse
Thousands of protesters shouted antigovernment slogans Friday in an unusually vocal demonstration against the death of a man seen as the victim of police brutality.
Earlier this month, witnesses say, Khaled Saieed, a young Alexandria resident, was allegedly beaten to death by police officers. Police say he died trying to swallow illicit drugs as officers approached.
Mr. Saieed's death has become an unexpected rallying cry for many Egyptian opposition supporters, who have called for an end to de facto martial law under President Hosni Mubarak.
Friday's protest was attended by former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who has said he would run for president against Mr. Mubarak if adequate electoral reforms were instituted. Mr. ElBaradei paid condolences to Mr. Saieed's family Friday morning; he appeared briefly at the protest but didn't address the crowd.
The demonstration took place amid a massive deployment of black-clothed riot police, who kept the protesters penned into a one-block area. Other protests related to Mr. Saieed's death have been broken up by security forces.
"We're all afraid for our children. And we should be afraid because they are in danger," shouted Maha Ibrahim, a young Alexandria woman who wears the full face veil known as the niqab. "We're afraid of our own government."
Witnesses said Mr. Saieed, 28 years old, was dragged out of an Alexandria Internet café by police on June 6. Several customers and the Internet cafe's owner said they saw two plainclothes police officers beat Mr. Saieed in an alley. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
It is unclear why police initially approached Mr. Saieed. His friends say he had evidence that police were involved in the local drug trade. Police decline to comment on those allegations.
The incident prompted protests throughout the country after pictures of Mr. Saieed's battered face and broken teeth circulated on the Internet. The police say Mr. Saieed choked to death when he tried to swallow a packet of marijuana as the officers approached him. Protests intensified when the coroner's report backed the police claims.
The U.S. State Department has called for a transparent investigation of Mr. Saieed's death.
In response to the growing controversy, prosecutors ordered Mr. Saieed's body exhumed for a second autopsy. But the second coroner's report—released Wednesday—backed the original finding and speculated that Mr. Saieed's injuries resulted from his own resistance to being arrested.
The case has become a rallying cause for activists and ordinary citizens calling for an end to Egypt's "emergency laws," the de facto martial law that has been on the books for Mr. Mubarak's 29-year reign.
Mr. Saieed has come to be known as the "emergency law martyr," and protestors on Friday called for the repeal of the law, the resignation of Interior Minister Habib El Adly, who oversees the country's police and security forces, and prosecution of the officers involved.
"All we want is for the police to be held accountable before the law," said Hamdin Sabahi, a veteran activist and independent lawmaker who attended the protest.
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