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This includes 43 foreigners who were detained for suspected links to the IS, says Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. 

Authorities are making an example out of Siti Noor Aishah Atam while claiming youths are important to policy making, says Kuala Terengganu MP.

UPDATED 2.04PM | Human Rights Watch says the law's use on critics has given M'sia a bad name abroad.

UPDATED 4.26PM | Atam Jusoh is overwhelmed with emotion as he begs for Siti Noor Aishah to be freed.

Lawyers for Liberty is appalled by the home minister’s proposal for the police power of 28 days detention under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act (Sosma) to be extended by another five years.

A motion for this amendment to the controversial law that replaced the ISA has been listed at No 8 in the Parliament Order Paper.

The Dewan Rakyat will be having the 1st meeting starting from March 6. Other than whether the minister in Prime Minister’s Department in charge of Islamic affairs will table a government amendment Bill for the Syariah Court (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965 (Act 355), it is worth paying attention to another government business, which is regarding the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma).

We, the 36 undersigned civil society organisations, trade unions and groups, are appalled to hear about the case of Siti Noor Aishah Atam, a 29-year-old Malaysian woman, who was arrested for the alleged possession of 12 books, detained, tried and acquitted by the court, and thereafter re-arrested and detained under the Prevention of Crime Act 1959 (Poca).

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He says it was purely a police decision, and claims the gov't would not have done the same.

UPDATED 12.47PM | Rapporteurs say they have been asking to visit since 2011, without getting any reply.

MP SPEAKS | The promise was that ISA was long gone, but autocrats always break promises.

Police have unrestricted powers to detain an individual without trial for up to 28 days.

Steven Thiru says barring of legal counsel during raids a violation of basic rights.

Court clears her of possessing banned books, but rearrested on the day of acquittal.

Parliamentarians from across South-East Asia today welcomed the release of Malaysian human rights defender Maria Chin Abdullah, but cautioned that the persecution of government critics by Malaysian authorities continues and must be halted.

UPDATED 2.15PM | Bersih chief is also being investigated under PAA.

UPDATED 11.20PM | The slow drizzle that soon became a downpour fails to deter the 600-strong crowd.

'They also said a different set of investigation will carry on,' Bersih chief adds after her release.

UPDATED 6.25PM | The women's NGO is also accused of engaging in activities against parliamentary democracy.

YOURSAY | ‘Maria a woman of substance who stands much taller than the men who crucify her.’

Maria's lawyer tries tweeting IGP, after official request gets nowhere.

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Sosma is a procedural law to maintain public order and security in the country, says the attorney-general.