SAY NO TO DETENTION WITHOUT TRIAL

Every person is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, after a fair and open trial by an independent judge. 

Detention Without Trial Laws allows the taking and detaining of a person WITHOUT any trial, hence without any opportunity to defend himself/herself. Thus, the government can simply pick up anyone and detain them indefinitely.

Habeas Corpus - the right to be able to challenge any such arbitrary detention in court really do not exist anymore as the courts in Malaysia as far as the Detention Without Trial laws are concerned can only look at whether there was procedural compliance....no more can the courts review the alleged reason for the detention in the first place.

The Minister can simply detain a person without trial under this laws because he does not approve his relationship with the Minister's daughter - so we can 'cook-up' and say that he is a member of some Islamic Terrorist group -- LIES, of course, but the detainee has no avenue of challenging it, let alone defending it ..

The main Detention Without Trial Laws in Malaysia are:-

a) Internal Security Act 1960 (ISA)

b) Emergency (Public Order and Prevention of Crime) Ordinance 1969

c) Dangerous Drugs (Special Preventive Measures) Act 1985

SUHAKAM's Review of Internal Security Act 1960 Report - A sad document that suggests a compromisee of the strong clear call for the total repeal of all Detention Without Trial Laws. The Human Rights Commission proposes reduction of periods of detention, some added safeguards, etc BUT it is nothing but a compromise of the principled position.