Jeswan Kaur | October 27, 2013
Free Malaysia Today
How could a minister not be accountable for misinformation or manipulation of figures and facts as evident in the document he would be signing?
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Hindraf-HRP leader P Uthayakumar has written to Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak saying he was being tortured by the Prisons Department.
Uthayakumar who is serving a 30-month jail sentence for sedition claimed he was made to sleep on the floor.
But the Prisons Department begs to differ, saying Uthayakumar had been placed in solitary confinement for a total of 13 days on two separate occasions as he had “refused to take instructions”.
Just what were the ‘instructions’ was not revealed by the department. Did Uthayakumar’s plea for a humane treatment melt Najib’s heart? It never did.
While Uthayakumar languishes behind the cold walls of a prison, life was so much the better for former transport minister Dr Ling Liong Sik, 70, who was as pleased as a punch to be waking home a free man after he was acquitted of charges of having cheated Putrajaya in the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) land deal. Continue reading “PKFZ scandal: So who cheated the govt?”