'Pastor Hilmy and wife's disappearance follows a pattern'

Pastor Joshua Hilmy and his Indonesian wife Ruth Sitepu as well as Pastor Raymond Koh and social activist Amri Che Mat, disappeared within a brief period between Nov 2016 and Feb 2017 the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) inquiry heard today.

Sitepu’s counsel Phillip Koh submitted that the disappearances took place immediately after a speech by a then senior special branch officer at KDN Complex, Kuala Lumpur, in Nov 2016.

The lawyer claimed that the speech, delivered during a seminar on terrorism, had alleged that while the Malaysian government were busy looking at...