Although the trio arrested under ISA on 12Sept, two has been freed including Sinchew reporter Tan Hoon Cheng and Selangor Senior Exco Teresa Kok. However, it must not be forgotten that blogger Raja Petra Kammarudin, the 5 HINDRAF leaders P. Uthayakumar, M. Manoharan, R. Kenghadharan, V. Ganabatirau and T. Vasanthakumar who were being arrested almost a year ago, and about 60 others are stil behind the bar.
I condemned such an action taken by the police and BN government, the use of ISA agaisnt political opponents and media worker was simply unjust, unfair and unreasonable. It is my stand as a lawyer and DAP state assemblyman to adopt the motion pass during the Bar Council Extraordinary Meeting today and go against the existent of ISA. No one shall be deprived of his freedom without a fair trial, it is a basic human right that everyone was entitled to a fair and open trial and everyman is innocent until proven guilty. The existent of ISA has violated such principle whereby everyman on the street can be arrested and put to the jail based on one man discretion, that is the Home Minister. The existent of ISA or any law which allows detention without trial present cruelty, inhuman, and unconstitutional.
We thank you for the present at the candle-light vigil held in Lobak on Thursday night. I will hold another candlelight protest against ISA to call for the government to abolish the ISA and release the ISA detainees immediately. The details are as follows:
Date : 23 Sept 2008 (Tuesday)
Time : 7:30pm
Venue : Oakland Service Center (Behind Columbia Hospital)
Contacts: 06-7614557
I urge supporters and those who stand against the ISA cruelty turn up yourself on Tuesday night to show your disagreement with the existent of ISA. We may arrange a march in the area depending on the circumstances. Your present will be valuable in our road to get ISA abolished.
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