The Human Rights Commission will meet officials from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) to discuss the latest suspension of a student.

"We will try to see that justice will prevail, that the provisions in UiTM's disciplinary guidelines were not abuse and that there had been no carelessness on the part of the university," Suhakam commissioner Prof Hamdan Adnan said after meeting the student, Rafzan Ramli, today.

The university authorities are scheduled to meet with Suhakam next Wednesday at its headquarters in Menara Tun Razak in Kuala Lumpur.

Rafzan, a 24-year-old electrical engineering student, was served with a suspension letter dated Aug 7 when criminal charges were initiated against him. Earlier in June, Rafzan was expelled from UiTM for his involvement in an anti-ISA gathering outside the National Mosque on June 8.

He was later re-admitted into the university but according to UiTM regulations, a student charged with criminal proceedings faces an immediate suspension pending the outcome of the court case.

Rafzan was accused of participating in an illegal assembly and was charged in the magistrate's court together with six others in October.

His appeal to Education Minister Musa Mohamad was also denied with the Ministry claiming that the letter had not been forwarded through the university's Student Affairs Department, as required by the guidelines.

"The decision made by the minister to deny my appeal was clearly arbitrary and was intended to delay my appeal process, and the ministry had not provided any solid reason why the letter was turned away," said Rafzan.

"The minister, therefore, has denied my right to a fair hearing of my appeal," he said.

The Anti-ISA Students Movement's (GMMI) secretary-general Sharir Mahmood who was present with Rafzan added that the suspension was unfair as it had already assumed Rafzan's guilt.

"There has been a clear violation of human rights here because UiTM has already decided [Rafzan's guilt] even before the [decision of the] magistrate's court," Sharir said.