CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 2 - REPORT OF THE COMPLAINTS AND INQUIRIES WORKING GROUP REPORT OF THE COMPLAINTS AND INQUIRIES WORKING GROUP ...when we speak of human rights in Islam we really mean that these rights have been granted by God; they have not been granted by any king or by any legislative assembly. The rights granted by the kings or the legislative assemblies can also be withdrawn in the same manner in which they are conferred. The same is the case with the rights accepted and recognised by the dictators. They can confer them when they please and withdraw them when they wish; and they can openly violate them when they like. But since in Islam human rights have been conferred by God, no legislative assembly in the world, or any government on earth, has the right or authority to make any amendment or change in the rights conferred by God. No one has the right to abrogate them or withdraw them. Nor are they the basic human rights which are conferred on paper for the sake of show and exhibition and denied in actual life when the show is over. Nor are they like philosophical concepts which have no sanctions behind them. Abul A’ala Maududi, Muslim Scholar In keeping with its functions, the Complaints and Inquiries Working Group (CIWG) investigated cases referred to the Commission over the year. It also visited places of detention including prisons, police lock-ups, detention centres and a rehabilitation centre under the jurisdiction of the National Anti-Drugs Agency. 1. RESOLUTION OF COMPLAINTS The Commission received 1,232 complaints1 at its Kuala Lumpur, Kota Kinabalu and Kuching offices during the year, of which 51 were in the form of memoranda. 1 The number increased significantly compared to 2010 because of complaints recorded during the public consultation sessions held in conjunction with the Commission’s on-going National Inquiry into the Land Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Malaysia. 39