From INQUIRER.NET (News for Philipines)

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KUALA LUMPUR – Victims of torture by a government commission revealed the “mental and physical” pressure that they underwent following the death of an opposition member last week allegedly in the hands of the same group.
Tan Boon Hwa was forced to stand for four hours by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission that threatened to assault him repeatedly, according to Malaysian opposition members, which appeared in a report by Din Mericin, a Malaysian-based independent news correspondent.
“They kept calling me stupid China man. They said that if I don’t ‘tell the truth’, they will take away my wife and there would be no one to care for the children. But I did not give in,” Tan said.
Ramon Navaratham, an adviser to the MACC, grudgingly admitted that “no normal person can withstand the mental and physical pressure” of the MACC interrogation tactics and called for a review of the agency procedures. “Teoh’s death is tragic and unnecessary,” he said. (more…)