Ali Abdul Jalil allegedly posted comments belittling the Johor royal family. He is currently remanded at the Sungai Buloh prison, where he claimed to have been assaulted by a warden with an east-coast Malay accent. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, September 23, 2014.
Activist Ali Abd Jalil, currently in remand at the Sungai Buloh prison after being charged with sedition, has alleged that he was assaulted by a prison official on the first night of his detention on September 8.
The Malaysian Insider has been made to understand that a police was lodged by his elder brother at the Taman Tun Dr Ismail police station on Saturday.
Ali had earlier informed his family about the beatings when they visited him at the Sungai Buloh prison.
He was first brought to the prison on September 8, and claimed that he was beaten by a prison officer who spoke with an east coast accent.
The officer allegedly punched, slapped and hit Ali using a baton and a rubber pipe in an empty room.
Ali, however, claimed that the beatings did not leave any marks or injuries on his body. He was also not able to tell anyone of this as he was not allowed to meet anyone before Friday, when he met his lawyer.
Ali, who was charged with sedition on September 8 over his Facebook postings in January, said that another warden had threatened to get the other prisoners to beat him up.
Ali, who is with the Anything But Umno (ABU) movement, is accused of posting seditious remarks on a Facebook page called "Kapitalis Bangsat" through three separate comments, allegedly belittling the Johor Sultanate and calling for it to be abolished.
- TMI
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