'Assess mental health of alleged terrorists professionally'

comments     Alyaa Azhar     Published     Updated

Psychologists and psychiatrists are definitely needed in assessing the mental health of alleged terrorists.

Dr Mohamed Hatta Shaharom, founding dean of a private medical faculty, said that such individuals need professional psychological and psychiatric assessments to determine their condition.

“In their lives of terrorism or apprenticeship towards terrorism, mental illness must be ruled out,” Hatta told Malaysiakini .

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