Reformasi 5 demand to be set free, get backing from opposition parties
Five reformasi activists detained under the Internal Security Act 1960 (ISA) have demanded that they be set free following the Federal Court decision yesterday that their arrests and initial 60-day detention order were illegal and unlawful.
Welcoming the court's recognition that the police had acted in bad faith when arresting and detaining them in April last year, they claimed that the current detention as ordered by Home Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi could not stand any longer as the court had already declared that their initial detentions as null and void.
In a press statement dated yesterday, the reformasi activists who are detained at the Kamunting detention camp in Perak, claimed that the technical argument separating the minister's two-year detention order from the earlier police detention is illogical.
This is because the second detention order by the minister was based on the findings of the police investigation during the earlier 60-day detention, they added.
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