Ex-detainee: Young people now acting without fear

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Professor Tan Ka Kheng, a distinguished chemical and environmental engineer, was the first person to be imprisoned without trial during Mahathir’s ‘Operation Lalang’ mass arrests under the Internal Security Act (ISA) in 1987. He was not the last - a total of 106 prisoners of conscience were locked up in Kamunting, Perak.

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