Wives of arrested politicians go on hunger strike

by Sharmini
Oct 26, 2019
<p>The wives of three politicians who were arrested for their alleged 'LTTE links' began a hunger strike on Thursday after&nbsp;hearing that their husbands will be held in detention for another week.</p> <p>Umah Devi, wife of Gadek assemblyman G. Saminathan, Sumathy,&nbsp;wife&nbsp;of S. Chandru, businessman&nbsp;and Vimala Jakumaran,&nbsp;wife of Melaka local authority councillor V. Suresh Kumar, started their hunger strike&nbsp;as they are frustrated with and disappointed at the arrests of husbands.</p> <p>Speaking to Malay Mail, Umah said that Thursday will mark 21 days since her husband has been held in detention,&nbsp;and it will take another week for the court’s decision.</p> <blockquote><p> "That makes 28 days, we won’t be seeing my husband.&nbsp;Until now I don’t know what to tell my son. He has been asking me where is ‘appa’ (father). He has also asked me why are we not going Deepavali shopping. What am I to tell him?". </p></blockquote> <p>The Kuala Lumpur High Court today set October 31 to hear a habeas corpus application by five of the suspects arrested over alleged links to LTTE.</p> <p>Read more <a href="https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2019/10/24/wives-of-dap-reps-bu…">here</a>.&nbsp;</p>

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