Anti-ISA group to intensify campaign in wake of court decision
The Abolish ISA Movement (AIM) will intensify its campaign to repeal the Internal Security Act (ISA) this month following the Federal Court ruling on the five detained reformasi activists last week.
Its deputy chairperson Zahir Hassan said today that AIM, in a special meeting yesterday, has formed a new working committee to coordinate the month-long campaign. Zahir is the chairperson of the committee.
Last Tuesday, the four-member Federal Court panel allowed the appeals brought by the five that their detention by the police in their first 60 days under the ISA was unlawful and unanimously agreed that the police had acted in bad faith (
mala fide
) when arresting them.
The five Keadilan leaders Tian Chua, Mohd Ezam Mohd Nor and Saari Sungib, malaysiakini columnist-cum-filmmaker Hishamuddin Rais and Free Anwar Campaign director Raja Petra Raja Kamaruddin were detained last year for allegedly plotting to topple the government through militant means a charge which they have denied.
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