KUCHING: Sarawak police have began an internal investigation into a Facebook account for revealing photos of three female suspects allegedly involved in a drug abuse case. Criminal Investigation Department (CID) chief Datuk Dev Kumar said the posting quoted a press release issued by Kuching district police chief Assistant Commissioner Abang Ahmad Julai together with three photos of the suspects. The posting, he said, received hundreds of comments from netizens denouncing the Facebook page for publishing the photos and the police for releasing the photos. We would like to advise the media, especially online news portals and Facebook pages not to publish photos of suspects without censoring their faces," he said in statement here today. Any suspects, Dev said, remain innocent until they are proven guilty and convicted in court.

Source: New Strait Times September 14, 2017 07:18 UTC