26 Jan 2007Feb 2 hearing for Heng Peo
New Straits Times (Malaysia)
PUTRAJAYA: Former Cambodian police chief Heng Peo is seeking to bring two senior Immigration officials and a deputy public prosecutor before the Federal Court for their part in his hasty deportation last month.
Heng Peo has applied for leave to commit the director-general of Immigration Datuk Wahid Mohd Don, its enforcement chief Datuk Ishak Mohamed and DPP Mohamad Hanafiah Zakaria, accusing them of acting in contempt of the Federal Court.
His counsel, N. Sivananthan, filed the application on Wednesday. The matter is due to be heard on Feb 2.
Last month, Federal Court judge Datuk Richard Malanjum criticised Hanafiah for not preventing Heng Peo’s deportation when the apex court had convened to hear the appeal.
Immigration officers had put Heng Peo on a private plane within an hour of a Court of Appeal decision which effectively allowed for him to be sent back to Cambodia, where he had been tried in his absence for murder and given an 18-year jail term.
Heng Peo had hoped to leave Malaysia for Finland which had offered him asylum.
The leave application contained allegations that Wahid, Ishak and Hanafiah were fully aware of arrangements made to remove Heng Peo from Malaysia, even as his counsel attempted to appeal to the Federal Court.
Heng Peo’s application alleged they knew the Cambodian government had the plane waiting at the Subang airport.
In an affidavit, his wife, Ngin Sotheavy, who is in Singapore, asked for the application to be heard urgently.
Heng Peo has applied for leave to commit the director-general of Immigration Datuk Wahid Mohd Don, its enforcement chief Datuk Ishak Mohamed and DPP Mohamad Hanafiah Zakaria, accusing them of acting in contempt of the Federal Court.
His counsel, N. Sivananthan, filed the application on Wednesday. The matter is due to be heard on Feb 2.
Last month, Federal Court judge Datuk Richard Malanjum criticised Hanafiah for not preventing Heng Peo’s deportation when the apex court had convened to hear the appeal.
Immigration officers had put Heng Peo on a private plane within an hour of a Court of Appeal decision which effectively allowed for him to be sent back to Cambodia, where he had been tried in his absence for murder and given an 18-year jail term.
Heng Peo had hoped to leave Malaysia for Finland which had offered him asylum.
The leave application contained allegations that Wahid, Ishak and Hanafiah were fully aware of arrangements made to remove Heng Peo from Malaysia, even as his counsel attempted to appeal to the Federal Court.
Heng Peo’s application alleged they knew the Cambodian government had the plane waiting at the Subang airport.
In an affidavit, his wife, Ngin Sotheavy, who is in Singapore, asked for the application to be heard urgently.
1 comment:
Sounds like a loser to me.
I can tell from the noises that
they made.
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