Bar Council backs Suhakams ISA plan

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The Bar Council today expressed its support for the National Human Rights Commission's (Suhakam) recommendations to scrap the Internal Security Act and pave the way for a more comprehensive security law.

"A prosperous, fair, democratic and secure society cannot exist in an environment which does not place human rights values in high status and priority," its chairperson Kuthubul Zaman Bukhari said in a statement.

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