Mahathir to be asked about police brutality against Anwar at the first day of Parliament on Oct. 20

(Petaling Jaya, Wednesday): When Parliament reconvenes on Oct. 20, my first question to the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad is about the allegation of the former Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim that he was beaten up by the police when detained under the Internal Security Act.

My question is as follows:
 

• To ask the Prime Minister the result  and outcome of investigations into the allegations by former Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim of police beatings in a police lock-up in Bukit Aman when he was first arrested on Sept. 20 while handcuffed and blindfolded until he lost consciousness.

My other questions for oral answer for the forthcoming Parliamentary meeting are as follows:
 

• To ask the Prime Minister  whether the government agrees to the establishment of an independent inquiry, such as an  All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry Committee to investigate to the allegations that the "kin, friends and allies" of former Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had benefitted from major government projects as well as the allegations of widespread  corruption and cronyism which the former Deputy Prime Minister  had levelled against the Prime Minister personally to ascertain the seriousness of the problem of cronyism, corruption and nepotism (KKN) in Malaysia.
• To ask the Prime Minister what are the evidence that the former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had been guilty of high crimes such as  being pawn of foreign powers as well as high treason, for which he had virtually been tried and convicted by the media.
• To ask the Prime Minister to give a full breakdown of the costs of the Prime Minister’s residence at Putrajaya, whether it  costs RM200 million  as stated by the former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister or  RM16.7 million as stated by the  Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Fauzi Abdul Rahman in Parliament on July 15.
• To ask the Prime Minister whether the government will set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry into police violence and  brutality against  detainees, whether under the Internal Security Act or othe laws of the land, to establish that there is the rule of law in Malaysia and that the government will not accept or tolerate the police beating up the people while under police custody.
• To ask the Prime Minister the government’s response to the increasing public concern about "ever steady and increasing disregard for and erosion of the rule of law and the principles of natural justice" as expressed in a joint statement , entitled "The Rule of Law Under Threat" on Sept. 15, 1998  by 14 leading Malaysian civic leaders including one former Lord President and three former Bar Council Presidents and what urgent measures the government is taking to restore public confidence in the system of justice and the independence of the judiciary.
•  To ask the Finance Minister why the government bail-out of Bank Bumiputra involving RM1.1 billion government injection via Khazanah Nasional Bhd. was RM350 million more than the RM750 million figure announced six months earlier  and what action have been taken against those responsible for such colossal bank losses third time in 12 years.
• To ask the Prime Minister whether the Attorney-General will re-open the case of the former Malacca Chief Minister, Tan Sri Rahim Tamby Cik in connection with the allegation of statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl in view of the underaged girl’s evidence in court during the trial of MP for Kota Melaka, YB Lim Guan Eng in the Malacca High Court, on oath that she had sex relationship with Rahim Tamby Cik when she was underaged, and in view of the charges preferred against Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for acts of unnatural sex based on the alleged evidence of only one party.
• To ask the Home Minister what steps have been taken to undertake urgent prison reforms for a more humane treatment of prisoners, a more equitable and attractive pay for warders and a better rehabilitation system that encourages a criminal to turn over a new leaf instead of encouraging them to turn to crime upon release.
• To ask the Prime Minister whether there had been a full inquiry to establish how many judges had been involved in gambling and  invariably win big sums of money when betting in golf sessions with those in the private sector as publicly mentioned by the Attorney-General, Tan Sri Mohtar Abdullah at the end of August and the result of such an inquiry.