{"id":2030,"date":"2008-06-10T11:01:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T03:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/06\/10\/dead-detainee-inquest-postponed8-times\/"},"modified":"2008-06-10T11:01:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T03:01:25","slug":"dead-detainee-inquest-postponed8-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/06\/10\/dead-detainee-inquest-postponed8-times\/","title":{"rendered":"dead detainee inquest postponed&#8230;8 times!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Wow! this would be some sort of record I guess!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>8th postponement of inquest into detainee&#8217;s death<\/strong><br \/>\nKUALA LUMPUR: The inquest into the death of Ulaganathan Muniandy was postponed for the eighth time yesterday, raising the concern of Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram).<br \/>\nCounsel James Khong, who is holding a watching brief for the family, urged the magistrate to speed up the inquest as it had been four years since Ulaganathan died in police custody.Yesterday, the deputy public prosecutor and all the witnesses did not show up, Khong said in a statement issued through Suaram.<\/p>\n<p>He said the previous hearing on Feb 29 was postponed for the same reason, while the first five hearings were not held following applications for postponement by the DPP.<\/p>\n<p>Ulaganathan was detained under the Emergency Ordinance on May 12, 2003, at the Kajang police station, where he died on July 21.<br \/>\nThe Kajang Hospital concluded that his cause of death &#8220;cannot be determined&#8221;, although his family suspected foul play.<\/p>\n<p>The next inquest hearing is scheduled for July 22.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Tuesday\/National\/2263442\/Article\/index_html\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Wow! this would be some sort of record I guess! 8th postponement of inquest into detainee&#8217;s death KUALA LUMPUR: The inquest into the death of Ulaganathan Muniandy was postponed for the eighth time yesterday, raising the concern of Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram). Counsel James Khong, who is holding a watching brief for the family, urged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[117,112],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-crime","tag-discrimination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}