Detainees testify via video: GMI protests to Suhakam

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The Abolish ISA Movement (GMI) has lodged its protest with the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) over the government's agreement for four ISA detainees to testify via video-link at the treason trial of Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir.

GMI coordinator Yap Swee Seng said the organisation was concerned over the circumstances which led to the testimony of the four men who have been detained without trial on allegations that they are members of militant organisation Jemaah Islamiah (JI).

"GMI was informed by the family of Ahmad Sajuli Abdul Rahman (one of the detainees) that he was transferred from the Kamunting Detention Camp to an unknown police remand centre in Kuala Lumpur on many occasions while serving his two-year detention order.

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