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About Waytha Moorthy Ponnusamy
- Waytha Moorthy Ponnusamy sometimes spelt Waythamoorthy (Tamil: ??????????? ??????????, romanized: Vetamurtti po??ucami; born 16 July 1966) is a Malaysian politician, lawyer and activist.
- Currently he is serving as the Minister of National Unity and Social Wellbeing.
- He is a Barrister from Lincoln's Inn and began his career as a lawyer in Malaysia in 1997.
- Waytha's work involved public interest litigation relating to arbitrary arrests, unlawful deaths in police custody, extra judicial killings; police abuse of detainees; denial of grant of citizenship status to ethnic Indians born in Malaysia, forced conversion of ethnic Indians to Islam, unlawful demolition of Hindu Temples or places of worship; and denial of government compensation to ethnic Indian Estate/Plantation workers.
- Much of Waytha's work was done pro bono due to a lack of public funds allocated to those areas of the law.
- He is well known among Malaysian Indians as the Founder of Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) and his domestic and international campaign to fight discrimination against Malaysian Hindus.
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