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Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA (GMI) condemns the statement of the Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Ministry Ahmad Shabery Cheek that ” issues related to the violation of human rights at the Guantanamo Bay, which has been condemned by the world, are something unheard of in the context of the ISA” as published in Bernama(28 March 2007).
Thousand apologies to foreign readers of this blog, below is a news report from a mainstream press in Malaysia.
There is a so-called scholar from a local university who got his phd in Islamic Thinking and Missionize (direct translation) from the University of Edinburg UK, commented that ISA is instrumental in curbing threats of terrorism in this country.
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Someone claimed that the detention without trial in Guantanamo is different from the ISA, because there is no one asking for the ISA to be repealed. Worst of all, the statement came out from the mouth of the Parliamentary Secretary of Malaysian Foreign Ministry. What a blatant lie!
To avoid from being a katak di bawah tempurung (frog under the well), Shabery Cheek should read the following articles to understand the human rights violations under the infamous Internal Security Act (ISA) 1960 in Malaysia:
