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Keadilan leaders Dr Badrul Amin Bahron and Lokman Noor Adam, the remaining two of the 10 Internal Security Act (ISA) detainees who were arrested in a police crackdown against reformasi activists beginning April 10, were sent to the Kamunting detention camp in Taiping, Perak last night.

Counsel for the duo, R Sivarasa, told malaysiakini this morning their two-year detention orders were signed by Home Affairs Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday. He added that he expected to receive copies of their detention orders today.

Today is Badrul Amin's 54th day in detention and Lokman's 50th day.

Badrul detention grounds state that he was sent to Kamunting for 'exploiting his religious ceramah to confuse and create a division amongst the public'.

The grounds also alleged that he 'attended secret meetings to devise and carry out plans to influence the public to overthrow the government'.

Meanwhile, the habeas corpus applications of the two, to have been heard at the Shah Alam High Court beginning today, were dismissed by the court.

Both the prosecution and the defence agreed that the matter had now become academic. Earlier, the prosecution confirmed to the court that the two had already been sent to Kamunting.

Sivarasa said he withdrew the applications as the respondent was now no longer the Inspector-General of Police but the Home Affairs Minister and as such the applications would have to be re-filed.

Habeas corpus is a writ ordering prisoners to be brought before a court or judge to ascertain whether their detention is lawful.

It is often applied for by lawyers for those held under the ISA which allows detention without trial for a minimum of two years following an initial 60-day investigative period.

Police dragnet

Both Badrul Amin and Lokman will join four others - Keadilan vice-president Tian Chua, Keadilan party Youth chief Mohamad Ezam Mohd Nor, supreme council member Saari Sungib and social activist-cum- malaysiakini columnist Hishamuddin Rais - who were sent to Kamunting camp on June 2 after being interrogated by police for more than 45 days.

Four others have been released - two by order of the Shah Alam High Court and the other two by the police.

The 10 reformasi leaders were arrested in a police dragnet in early April to pre-empt what police chief Norian Mai described as a 'militant attempt' to overthrow the government through violent street demonstrations.