KUALA LUMPUR: The wife and daughter of missing activist Amri Che Mat will testify in a suit filed against the government and 20 others.
Lawyer Larissa Ann Louis, who is representing Amri's wife Norhayati Ariffin in the suit, confirmed this today.
The hearing was supposed to start today in the High Court before judge Su Tiang Joo.
However, it was postponed to Wednesday due to a glitch in the court's online database system.
Both Norhayati and her daughter Amirah were in court today, as well as Susanna Liew, who is the wife of abducted Christian pastor Raymond Koh.
Norhayati had filed the suit on Nov 18, 2019 against the police, government and the then home minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, as well as the former head of the Special Branch's social extremism division, Awaludin Jadid.
The activist's wife sought aggravated and exemplary damages.
The government had set up a task force in 2019 to investigate the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia's (Suhakam) claim of police involvement in the disappearances of Amri and Koh.
It was chaired by former High Court judge Datuk Abd Rahim Uda.
On May 9 this year, High Court judge Datuk Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh ruled that the task force's report should be given to Norhayati and her lawyer.
However, the government filed an appeal against the order on June 7.
Amri, who is the founder of a non-governmental organisation, went missing after leaving his home in Kangar about 11.30pm on Nov 24, 2016.
His vehicle was found abandoned at a construction site at Bukit Chabang in Kangar.
Suhakam conducted public inquiries into both disappearances. It is likely the two fell victim to "enforced disappearances" perpetrated by Special Branch policemen, the human rights group found.