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Tian Chua, Haris, Tamrin to be detained overnight at Jinjang

KUALA LUMPUR, May 23 — Pakatan Rakyat (PR) lawmakers Chua Tian Chang and Tamrin Ghafar, and political activist Haris Ibrahim, have been arrested for sedition and will be held overnight at the police lockup in Jinjang today.

According to Haris’s lawyer Gobind Singh Deo, the trio, who were picked up separately for questioning this afternoon, are ... Read More

Family members and friends grieve for N. Dharmendran, the latest person to die in police custody, at the family’s flat in Kuala Lumpur on May 23, 2013. — Picture by Choo Choy May

Family members and friends grieve for N. Dharmendran, the latest person to die in police custody, at the family’s flat in Kuala Lumpur on May 23, 2013. — Picture by Choo Choy May Read More

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