KUALA LUMPUR: Five lawyers and an activist won a civil dispute against the police and Government over their arrest and detention during a walk to mark the World Human Rights Day in December 2007.
High Court judge Justice John Louis O'Hara held that the arrests of R. Sivarasa, N. Surendran, Latheefa Beebi Koya, Eric Paulsen, Amer Hamzah Arshad and activist Johny Andu @ Abu Bakar Adnan and their subsequent detention by the police were unlawful.
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