Human rights NGO Suaram will be organising a theatre performance to demonstrate the ill-effects and consequences of preventive detention laws should such laws be revived in Malaysia.

Called "Bilik Sulit" (The confidential room), the play will be staged over three days between Sept19 to 22 at the Theatrette Hall at the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (KLSCAH).

The play will be based on the real accounts of former Internal Security Act (ISA) detainees and will detail how police conducts interrogation on those arrested under preventive detention laws.

The play comes after Suaram's strong objection to the government's intention to introduce new preventive detention laws to help the police combat crime.

A replacement for the Emergency Ordinance (EO) has been mentioned by Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, while the police have claimed that the crime rate was less alarming with the EO around.

"Suaram believes that the theatre play will give a direct message to the government to not take a step backwards and introduce new laws akin to the ISA and EO,"  said the NGO in a statement today.

"The government must remember that there are still seven ISA detainees who have not been released yet and are still being detained at the Kamunting detention centre," it added.

Both EO and ISA were abolished in 2011, as part of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's transformation promises.

Another act that was promised to be abolished, the Sedition Act, however, is still being used with no signs of the government planning to abolish it.

The act has been used to charge several opposition leaders and activists after the latter organised a spate of nationwide rallies protesting the 13th general election results.