KUALA LUMPUR: Sirul Azhar Umar , one of the commandos found guilty of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu's 2006 murder, is now a free man in Australia after a High Court there ruled against indefinite detention.
“My client is facing death by hanging in Malaysia for a murder conviction and until the death penalty is abolished by the Malaysian government, the Australian government is unable to deport Sirul Umar due to non-refoulement obligations,” he was quoted saying. The Australian government has a policy against deporting anyone to a country where they would face the death penalty.In 2009, Sirul and fellow Special Action Unit commando Azilah Harun were sentenced to death for the October 2006 murder of Altantuya in a gruesome case that garnered national interest and fuelled political conspiracy theories that remain popular to this day.
He previously sought a moratorium on his sentence in return for “tell-all” about the murder that has been linked to former prime minister Najib by way of former aide Abdul Razak Baginda, but the Malaysian government rejected this.
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