PKR vice-president N Surendran and activist
Latheefa Koya maintain their claim that the prime minister did stop Dr
Pornthip Rojanasunand from coming here.
PETALING
JAYA: PKR vice-president N Surendran and activist Latheefa Koya have
reiterated that letters between the Thai Justice Ministry and renowned
pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand proves that Prime Minister Najib
Tun Razak lied when he told the media that the Malaysian government did
not stop Pornthip from conducting a post-mortem here.
The two lawyers who are representing the family of the late Sugumar,
the 40-year-old security guard who was handcuffed and allegedly beaten
to death by the police, said the government had prevented Pornthip from
performing a second autopsy on Sugumar, who is yet to be buried although
he died some two weeks ago.
“Pornthip had said that Thailand’s Ministry of Justice had informed
her that there was communication from the Malaysian government on their
displeasure against her, especially in her role in the earlier case of
Teoh Beng Hock.
“In diplomatic language, this is a clear message from the Malaysian
government that Pornthip is not welcome in Malaysia for purposes of the
second autopsy on Sugumar,” they said in a press statement in response
to Najib’s denial.
Yesterday, Najib refuted allegations that he prevented Pornthip, who
is also a director of the Central Institute of Forensic Science at the
Ministry of Justice, Bangkok, Thailand, from conducting a second
post-mortem on Sugumar.
“It is not true… these are all fairy tales. Don’t listen to it. Not at all,” Najib was quoted as saying.
Sugumar was detained and allegedly beaten to death by four police
personnel and a group of mob in Hulu Langat on Jan 21. The following
day, a post-mortem conducted in Serdang Hospital concluded that Sugumar
died of a heart attack.
The findings were disputed by the family who wants a second
post-mortem. Surendran has been requesting for the second post-mortem to
be conducted by Pornthip.
Surendran and Latheefa also claimed that there is a letter from the
Thai Justice Ministry to Pornthip that clearly stated that the Malaysian
government was against her conducting a second post-mortem on Sugumar.
“Najib’s denial is further contradicted by the existence of a letter
from the Thai Ministry of Justice to Pornthip stating in effect that the
Malaysian government was against her conducting the second autopsy.
That letter was dated Feb 14 and was a follow-up to communications on
this subject between the Malaysian and the Thai governments.
Surendran and Latheefa urged Najib to “immediately lift all diplomatic and administrative obstacles against the pathologist”.
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