Following her release from detention, Maria Chin Abdullah went through her mail for the last 10 days.

On her desk at home was an envelope. Upon opening it, the Bersih chairperson found a death threat and a bullet, with the markings indicating that it is a .45 Automatic round.

Written on a sheet of paper were the words, "Last warning if not RIP Marina [sic] & family".

Speaking to reporters in Kuala Lumpur today, Maria said she found the envelope this morning.

She believes the envelope was hand-delivered to her house on Nov 18, on the eve of the Bersih rally when she was arrested under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012.

"This kind of act should be condemned and the person who did this should be put in jail.

"I hope that some action would be taken by the police to arrest the person who sent this threat," she said, after attending the hearing on her habeas corpus application in court.

This marks the third death threat Maria had received during the run-up to the rally.

She received her first death threat last month, which came in the form of a doctored image depicting a hooded man holding a knife in one hand while the hand held on to Maria.

Similar images depicting Bersih secretariat member Mandeep Singh and Human Rights Society chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan are also in circulation.

The second death threat came via images sent to her mobile phone on Nov 11. Maria, her three sons, Ambiga and Mandeep were threatened with decapitation.

Maria said she has yet to receive any updates from the police regarding her first two death threats.

Bersih 5 was peaceful, threats are not

Speaking to reporters on the latest death threat, Maria said she has yet to lodge police report because she had to rush to court after discovering the death threat. She would lodge the police report after the press conference outside the courtroom.

"I think it is disgusting and horrendous for people to stoop so low, to do this kind of thing to me and to my family. It is not necessary.

"After all, the (Bersih 5) rally was so peaceful - no rioting, no damages, no bloodshed. We were all peaceful and we have always been peaceful.

"There is no need for this," she said.

Meanwhile, speaking on the conditions of her detention under Sosma, Maria said she was confined to a room with no windows or any other openings, and the lights were on the whole day.

Whenever she left her cell, she would have to wear handcuffs and black goggles to obscure her vision.

As for her requests that had been relayed through the Human Rights Commission (Suhakam), Maria said she had requested a copy of the Quran at her home. She said she was not provided with that copy of the Quran, but an alternative copy was offered.

Her request for a mattress for fulfilled two days after Suhakam's visit on Nov 23 along with a blanket.

Daily interrogations

However, he requests to see her family and her lawyers were turned down.

"They gave a lot of excuses, but I know that they have family visits every Sunday.

"But on the second Sunday, I was not given any family visits," she said.

Asked if this was the her worst experience in her life, Maria said the conditions were testing her patience.

This is because that on top of the uncomfortable sleeping conditions, she was being interrogated daily.

"The first three days, it was about eight hours. Then after that it was about six hours per day.

"It is the same questions all over again: About Bersih, about connections to (financier George Soros), our accounts, our social media and who runs them, who manages our content... over and over again almost on a daily basis," she said.

She said she answered all the questions because she felt that she has nothing to hide, except those responses that she preferred to reserve for an open court hearing.