KUALA LUMPUR - Former High Court judge Abd Rahim Uda will lead a six-man task force to probe the findings by Malaysia’s Human Rights Commission , which concluded that police’s intelligence department was directly involved in the alleged enforced disappearances of a Christian pastor and a Muslim man suspected of spreading Shi'ite beliefs in the country.
“The task force will investigate whether the police Special Branch was indeed involved but of course, beyond that, we would also like to find the real truth on the whole thing,” he told a news conference. The issue involving their disappearances is sensitive in Malaysia amid claims they were abducted by the authorities. The incidents also raised concerns about rising religious intolerance in Malaysia.
An enforced disappearance means the arrest, detention or abduction of a person by agents of the state, after which the person's fate or whereabouts are concealed.Mr Muhyiddin added that the task force will be given six months to complete its probe and submit a report, which then will be presented to the Cabinet for further action.
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