Our latest book on Deaths in Custody available tonight! Hotel Singgahsana, PJ, 730pm

ps- on this subject, do see Haris Ibrahim’s latest update on a recent death in detention.

After much work, we finally have our latest book out – this blog post will constitute its ‘soft launch’ :)

The book, published by Kinibooks, is entitled “Where is Justice? Death and Brutality in Custody” and features 4 major case studies (Teoh Beng Hock, Kugan, Altantuya and Anwar’s black eye), as well as Suaram reports detailing as many known deaths in custody as possible.

John Lee and I (well, largely John) put in a lot of work trying to give an accurate a picture as possible, and compile as much data as we could in trying to give a systematic, detailed picture of this horrific trend in Malaysia.

I think I’ll leave it at that for now – I think our distributor, Gerakbudaya, will be selling them tonight at the following talk. Swing by and pick up a copy, while listening to a profound Malaysian intellectual!

Speaker: Prof Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Title: When will we ever learn? Has Malaysia learnt the correct lessons from past crises?
Date: Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Hotel Singgahsana, Persiaran Barat, off Jalan Sultan, 46760 Petaling Jaya (next to Taman Jaya LRT Station)
Admission: FREE