Court awards RM31mil to Pastor Koh’s family, RM3mil to Amri’s wife

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The Kuala Lumpur High Court has ordered the government and the police to pay RM31mil in damages to the family of Pastor Raymond Koh over their involvement in his abduction eight years ago.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/yrraya2a  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The Kuala Lumpur High Court has ordered the government and police to pay over 31 million ringgit

00:05in damages to the family of missing pastor Raymond Ko over the state's involvement in his abduction

00:11eight years ago. In his decision on Wednesday, Justice Su Tiangju said one or more of the

00:18defendants, who are current or former police officers, had acted under orders in carrying

00:23out the abduction. The court also ordered the government to pay 10,000 ringgit per day

00:28to Ko's family from the date of his disappearance in February 2017 until he is found. Additionally,

00:364 million ringgit in damages and 250,000 ringgit in costs were awarded to the family. Ko, who founded

00:44the NGO Harapan community, was abducted by armed men along Jalan SS 4B-10 in Petaling Jaya. CCTV footage

00:54showed at least 15 men in tactical gear and three black SUVs in what was described as

00:59a professional-style abduction. Meanwhile, in a separate ruling, the High Court awarded

01:06three million ringgit in damages to the wife of missing activist Amri Chemat, who disappeared in

01:122016. Justice Su found the government liable for Amri's disappearance and ordered police to reopen

01:19their investigation and report progress to the Attorney General every two months. The court also

01:25ruled that authorities had violated Nur Hayati Mohamed Arifin's right to life by failing to conduct

01:31an effective investigation and wrongly classifying the case as a missing person instead of an abduction.

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