The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has described Deputy Home Minister Nur Jazlan Mohamed’s complaint that the US-based organisation was unfairly singling out Malaysia as 'pathetic' and a diversion.

Yesterday, Nur Jazlan said that unlike Malaysia, Singapore still had the International Security Act (ISA) but HRW had not focused on Singapore as much as it focused on Malaysia for ' political reasons '.

“It’s pathetic that when challenged on (human) rights, all the deputy minister can do is spew political rhetoric about the rights record of