Malaysian police say they want to question A. Kulenthiran, a Malaysian gay man who was deported after his appeals to stay in Canada was denied by Immigration Minister Diane Finley.

Musa Hassan, the Southeast Asian nation’s Inspector-General of Police lambasted the failed refugee claimant in the media for alleging that he was physically and sexually abused under police detention some five years ago.  Kulenthiran is reportedly in hiding after arriving in Malaysia last week.

“What was his offence (that led to his arrest)? That’s just it, if he did not commit any, how could the police arrest him?” Hassan told The Malay Mail.

His deputy, Ismail Omar, echoing the sentiment, has  ordered an investigation into Kulenthiran’s claims asking police stations around the country to investigate the allegations made in Canada.
The investigation is focussing on one incident apparently linked to Kulenthiran in the central Malaysian state of Selangor.

“We are sad that he had accused us just like that,” he said. Kulenthiran had filed a last-ditch appeal to Canadian Immigration Minister Diane Finley, asking her to stay his March 6 deportation order to Malaysia as he feared persecution because he is gay.

Kulenthiran, who has been living in Montreal since 2003, appeared in Ottawa at a news conference on March 5 along with New Democrat MP Thomas Mulcair to request Finley’s intervention.

“I will be deported back to Malaysia, and I fear my imprisonment, so I would like to ask Ms. Finley to let me stay in Canada,” he said.

Kulenthiran had applied for refugee status in Canada on humanitarian grounds, arguing his life was in danger because his homosexuality made him a target of Malaysian police, who detained him for five days, and abused him physically and sexually.

“They were punching me, pushing me down to the floor and putting their leg on me to confess that I am gay.”

Kulenthiran had lost his refugee status because the judge was not convinced he was gay.
He had filed a pre-removal risk assessment, which was also rejected.