AMRI Che Mat’s wife’s bid to have limited access to the classified special task force report into her husband’s enforced disappearance has met a stumbling block.

On May 9, High Court judge Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh allowed Norhayati Mohd Ariffin’s application for limited access to the report, needed for separate legal action against the police and government over Amri’s enforced disappearance on November 24, 2016.

However, this morning, the lawyer for Amri’s wife, Larissa Ann-Louis, said the government and the police have gone to the Court of Appeal to prevent Norhayati from having access to the report.

Larissa said the High Court last week had also allowed an application by the government and the police to stay the May 9 ruling, pending disposal of the appeal.

On April 3, 2019, a public inquiry by Suhakam concluded that Amri and pastor Raymond Koh, who vanished in 2016 and 2017, respectively, were victims of enforced disappearance.

The three-member panel unanimously concluded that the perpetrators were members of the Special Branch from police headquarters Bukit Aman in Kuala Lumpur.

Koh’s family also has an ongoing civil court suit against the police and government over the pastor’s enforced disappearance. – June 7, 2023.