Detained Hindraf leader in Malaysia hospitalised - UPDATED...!!!

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KUALA LUMPUR: An ethnic Indian leader in Malaysia, who was on a hunger strike to protest against the detention of himself and four others under a draconian security law, was hospitalised after complaining of weakness, his wife said on Thursday.

47-year-old P Uthayakumar, a member of non-governmental Hindu Rights Action Forum (Hindraf) which spearheaded protests against alleged marginalisation of ethnic Indians, was hospitalised this afternoon following the hunger strike, which the five men began on Monday.

"My husband is a diabetic and I suspect his sugar level might have gone down following the fast," his wife Indira Uthayakumar said.


The five Hindraf activists were detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) for having organised a massive rally, declared illegal by the government, on November 25 last year demanding better treatment of ethnic Indians in the Muslim-dominated Malaysia. The rally was attended by over 20,000 people.

The ISA, which allows indefinite detention without trial, has come in for criticism by the human rights groups.

Uthahyakumar, a lawyer and brother Hindraf Chairman Waytha Moorthy, was put on a drip in hospital in northern Perak state after he complained of weakness.

Ethnic Indians, mostly Hindus from Tamil Nadu, comprise 8 per cent of Malaysia's population of 27 million people.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- An ethnic Indian activist was hospitalized Thursday during a hunger strike protesting his detention for having organized a rally demanding Indian minority rights in Malaysia, his wife and a hospital official said. P. Uthayakumar, leader of the Hindu Rights Action Force, or Hindraf, was given an intravenous solution in a hospital in northern Perak state, said his wife, Indra Devi Subramanian.
Indra said she called the detention center from Kuala Lumpur on Thursday to check on her husband, who had not eaten since Monday morning. She said she was told he was taken to a hospital for dehydration. "He's a diabetic. That's why I'm worried," she said.