IGP: Police to question Kit Siang over Teoh Beng Hock article

(The Star) – DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang is expected to be hauled in for a sedition investigation for penning an article on the fifth-year anniversary of Teoh Beng Hock’s death.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said Kit Siang, committed an offence for stating that Teoh was murdered and that the real perpetrators had yet to be arrested in an article in DAP publication The Rocket, published on July 16.

“We will investigate this under the Sedition Act because he is trying to incite people to think that Teoh Beng Hock was killed,

“Don’t make up things that are not true. I think our political leaders should not be making these kind of statements that fan anger and cause suspicion,” Khalid told reporters.

Teoh, 30, the political secretary to Selangor executive councillor Ean Yong Hian Wah, was found dead on July 16, 2009 on the fifth floor corridor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam after he had given a statement at the office of the Selangor branch of the commission on the 14th floor of the building.

In their lawsuit, Teoh’s family claimed that the MACC had failed to give an explanation on how Teoh was found dead at the place.

They said that MACC officers had wrongly attacked Teoh, causing him fear, torment, extreme distress and apprehension of immediate physical violence.

Kit Siang in his article, titled Malaysians will not rest until justice is done for the killing of Teoh Beng Hock said DAP and Pakatan Rakyat will continue to highlight the injustice of Teoh Beng Hock’s unresolved murder.