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Umno supreme council member cites provisions in Sosma to justify detention.

UPDATED 5PM | In contrast, Bersih’s goal is to install good governance, says graft watchdog.

UPDATED 3PM | Decrying solitary confinement, eldest son says they have no idea where she is being held.

COMMENT | The conditions of detention under Sosma render it as draconian as its predecessor.

UPDATED 10.54AM | 'A minister is answerable for all police actions, including 'operational' matters.'

Bersih has always subscribed to the ballot outcome.

'I don’t want to touch on their operational matters,' says the deputy prime minister.

Sosma, which may carry the death penalty for perpetrators, was enacted to replace the Internal Security Act.

“Just another day” was what Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli said after he was found guilty under the Official Secrets Act (OSA). What happened was, he leaked one page from the 1MDB audit report and that page is classified as a government secret. There you go, moral of the story - we have to play by the rules, OSA is the law and so you have to play smart; the law says no leaking of government secret and if you leak it you go to jail, period.

He is in Kuala Lumpur Hospital, suffering dehydration and exhaustion due to diarrhoea, says his lawyer.

Efforts to help people held for suspected Islamic State links may be used to prove he has terrorists links, he fears.

The elderly couple travel from KL to Alor Setar by bus weekly to see their imprisoned son.

COMMENT | Today, Najib's government is ignoring and abusing the laws.

Cops currently cannot take action because of legal constraints, says Kedah deputy mufti.

While Khairuddin's appeal to strike out the financial sabotage charge will be heard tomorrow.

He cites US Patriot Act to defend preventive detention, but this law does not allow it, says Surendran.

MP SPEAKS | What will curb terrorism is better police and intelligence work.