Teoh Beng Hock group seeks to raise RM50,000 for UN advocacy trip
PETALING JAYA : The Teoh Beng Hock Association for Democratic Advancement (TBH-ADA) is seeking to raise RM50,000 to fund Teoh Lee Lan's advocacy trip to Geneva, where she plans to meet United Nations officials to press for greater accountability over her brother's death.
TBH-ADA president Ng Yap Hwa said a formal complaint was filed yesterday with three top officials at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
The complaint was lodged with Morris Tidball-Binz, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; Alice Jill Edwards, UN special rapporteur on torture; and Ganna Yudkivska, president of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
'This is not just about putting public pressure on the government, but it is to ensure the government fulfils its international obligations (as a UN member),' Ng told a press conference today.
'The government should not wait until the international community scrutinises this case for them to do their due diligence.'
Lee Lan said it was disheartening that the family had to seek international intervention after years of unanswered questions from the government.
TBH-ADA had been organising forums throughout the country to rally public pressure on Beng Hock's death probe, which was classified as requiring no further action (NFA) by the Attorney‑General's Chambers because of insufficient evidence.
Beng Hock was found dead on July 16, 2009 after falling from the fifth floor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam, Selangor, after being questioned for several hours by officers from the Selangor Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.
An inquest into his death initially returned an open verdict. However, in 2014, the Court of Appeal ruled that his death was caused by 'one or more unknown persons', including MACC officers.
Before 2018, two special investigation teams had been set up to look into the incident – one in 2011 and the other in 2015 – but both cases were classified as NFA by the public prosecutor.
In 2019, police launched an investigation under Section 342 of the Penal Code for wrongful confinement.
A reinvestigation was ordered by the Kuala Lumpur High Court in November last year, directing the police to re-examine all aspects of the case.
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