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KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 (Bernama) -- Lawyer P. Uthayakumar today applied to the
High Court for his release from detention under the Internal Security Act (ISA)
claiming he was denied medical treatment.
His lawyer, N. Surendran, filed the application on the grounds that he was being
limited and denied from getting medical treatment for his diabetic condition and
was not sent to the National Heart Institute (IJN) for his heart problem.
Surendran filed the writ of habeas corpus at the High Court Registry in the
Courts Complex in Jalan Duta here at about 11.30 am. Uthayakumar's mother, G.
Kalaivani, his fiancee S. Indradevi and Kapar Member of Parliament S.
Manikavasagam were with Surendran.
The application, with a supporting affidavit affirmed by Uthayakumar himself,
named the Home Minister as the first respondent and the superintendent of the
Taiping detention camp in Perak, where Uthayakumar is being held, as the second
respondent.
In his affidavit, Uthayakumar, 46, claimed that around mid-February the
medication given to him by his fiancee S. Indradevi had run out, and he asked
the detention centre officials for the medication which had been prescribed by
the Taiping General Hospital.
Uthayakumar claimed that the officials refused to entertain his request and
forced him to request to meet the detention centre director six times to
facilitate his family to supply the medication.
Meanwhile, Surendran told reporters that the application was not a duplication
of the last habeas corpus application filed by Uthayakumar and four others on
Dec 26 2007 at the High Court, which was dismissed by the Federal Court on May
14 2008.
Uthayakumar and four others, lawyers M. Manoharan, 46, V. Ganabatirau, 34, R.
Kenghadaran, 40, and former bank officer K. Vasantha Kumar, 40, were detained on
Dec 13 last year for their involvement in the organising of a street protest
here on Nov 25 and for making inflammatory remarks against the government.
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