Wong Loke Soong

The human rights report issued by the US State Department said that some "serious problems" remained o­n the part of the Malaysian government in the field of human rights such as "the killing of suspects by police, the torture and abuse of detainees, and the continued use of the Internal Security Act (ISA) to arrest people without trial (read: without reasonable cause).

James Wong Wing o­n should defend what he said o­n BBC with a touch of pride. He spoke up honestly in the face of the official slant o­n the issue of the US-led war in Iraq.