Thursday December 18, 2008
1,300 foreign detainees died due to neglect
ABOUT 1,300 illegal foreigners have died during detention in the past six years, Malaysia Nanban quoted Malaysian Human Rights (Suhakam) commissioner Datuk N. Siva Subramaniam as saying.
He said many of them died in immigration detention centres, prisons and police lockups because they were denied medical treatment at the right time.
He proposed that a doctor and a medical assistant be appointed in each detention camp and prison which should have the necessary facilities to transfer sick prisoners to hospitals during an emergency.
He said detention camps now have appointed doctors who make regular visits.
He also said that Suhakam had submitted a memorandum to the Government proposing the appointment of a doctor to visit police stations to monitor the health of suspects held in lockups.
> Tamil Nesan reported that the MIC Youth had presented a memorandum to Astro for failing to give proper consideration to the Tamil language.
MIC religious and cultural committee chief P. Sathasivam said Astro currently published its monthly magazine Astro View in English, Malay and Mandarin, but had forgotten the Indian viewers.
- Other News & Views is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a > sign, it denotes a separate news item.
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