Lock-up deaths: Custodial fatalities a global phenomenon; ethnicity factor still unproven


PETALING JAYA: Police brutality and deaths in custody are not a local problem it happens all over the world, according to Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) School of Social Sciences criminologist Assoc Prof Dr P.Sundarmoorthy.

"It's not a new problem in the world of policing,” he added, saying it was an issue of serious concern, but did not consider the number of deaths to be particularly high in Malaysia.

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