The seventh in the Voice from Kamunting series written by Internal Security Act (ISA) detainee Saari Sungib is now available through a select channel of family and close friends.

Contacted today, Saari's wife Aliza Jaafar said the Malaysia Boleh... SB Lagi Boleh! (Malaysia can... SB is better) title was being sold for RM12 a copy, making it a total of five published volumes in the market.

She said they were cautious in doing this for fear of unexpected reprisals from the authorities as "they can do anything they want to anyone at anytime".

The sixth volume entitled Penahanan Tidak Sah dan Mala Fide (unlawful detention and bad faith) was delayed because Saari had simplified legal jargon for the lay person and this had to be verified by the lawyers' for accuracy.

"But it will be published soon," said Aliza, who was returning from the weekly family visit to the Kamunting Dentention Centre in Perak.

"This is my husband's and our family's contribution to enlighten ordinary Malaysians about life as an ISA detainee, how individual rights are continuously infringed and the kind of injustices which occur."

Saari's representation to the ISA Appeal Board is also among the several thousand copies of Afidavit (volume 5), SB Oh SB (volume 3) and Shit Too (volume 4).

"Volumes 4 and 5 have gone for reprint," Aliza said.

About 5,000 copies each of Volumes 1 and 2 were launched in December 2001.

In the latest book, Saari tantalises his readers with a personal account of observations and conversations that had taken place during his 54-day interrogation prior to the two-year detention without trial at the centre.

Release sought

On Jan 31, Aliza submitted a report of the same to the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia o­n behalf of her husband alleging that interrogators had bombarded him with plenty of 'inside stories' of police's modus operandi and techniques employed in protecting national security.

This includes the existence of a shadowy secret service called Federal Investigation Team and the use of satellite tracking to nab 'errant' individuals.

The behind-the-scenes account provides an insight into interrogation methods, including bits o­n the deviant Islamic cults Al-Ma'unah and Al-Arqam, Bentong Kali (an alleged criminal gunned down by police in the early 1990s), Arab terrorists, high-class sex workers, Ecstasy pills, coup d'etat within the police force, and several political and religious personalities and their

families.

In the report, he declared that all the material contained in it was true as far as the police interrogation proceedings were concerned.

Saari and five other reformasi activists and opposition leaders were detained under the ISA in April 2000 for allegedly planning to topple the government through militant means, a charge they have denied.

One of them, Mohd Ezam Mohd Nor, is also serving a two-year jail sentence in Kajang Prison for breaching the Official Secrets Act.

The rest, Keadilan party leaders Tian Chua, Lokman Noor Adam, Dr Badrulamin Bahron and malaysiakini columnist-cum-filmmaker Hishamuddin Rais, are still in Kamunting despite a Federal Court ruling that the arrest and the initial 60-day detention was unlawful.

Aliza added: "Come April 10, my husband and the other five reformasi detainees would have completed the two-year detention without trial."

Urging the government to release them, she said their continuous detention was cruel and a violation of human rights.