Uthayakumar Continues to be Harassed by the Police
Police continue to harass Uthayakumar at his residence on June 13 & June 14, 2009. On June 13, 2009 at around 11.00pm, five (5) policemen for apparently no reason visited his present residence in his fiancée's flat and started harassing her old and sickly parents.
By P.Waytha Moorthy, Hindraf Chairman
They were questioned about his whereabouts in threatening and intimidating manners that shocked the elderly couple. Further, they proceeded to take pictures of the flat both inside and outside.
Are we living in a police state? What right do the police have in entering the premises to question and take pictures. Is this a raid? Even so, is it not correct that a warrant should be produced for such unlawful invasion and trespass of private property?
The police has to get their act together, that the public cannot be subjected to such arbitrary acts pandering to their whims and fancies without due process of law.
Uthayakumar was a prisoner of conscience and now a free man; not some thief trying to hoodwink the police force. Is he hiding from you? Why does the police resort to tactics to intimidate and harass some old folks using the power that is granted to them by the public, ie the voters and the tax payers, unless the police force feels that it is above the law and can do anything it wants, when it chooses, and their victims are their choice at the expense of the peace-loving public.
HINDRAF condemns the act of the police on the intimidation acts that are carried out on Uthayakumar, and does not condone such behavior in our so-called democracy state.
What is even more baffling is, there is a permanently parked van outside the flat that obviously watches his movements (please see attached photos) so HINDRAF fails to comprehend why then 5 policemen need to enter his fiancée's flat at 10.00pm and intimidate some old folks.
HINDRAF questions such actions and motives by the police force as it is not about HINDRAF, or Uthayakumar, but the erosion of human liberty in Malaysia.
HINDRAF does not want a police state in Malaysia, nor does the public desire for one; so an overt act by the police force disregarding the process of law needs to be questioned before Malaysia actually becomes one.
