"I am now mentally and physically fragile. They just called at 3.45pm yesterday telling me that his detention has been extended," said the distraught wife of Internal Security Act (ISA) detainee Abdul Samad Shukri Mohd.

"I look ok. But do you how I feel? I want my husband home," cried Masitah Baharom (left) whose husband has been alleged of being a member of Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militant network.

Abdul Samad was detained under the ISA which allows detention without trial since 2002 .

Yesterday, he was slapped with his second two-year extension order under the preventive detention law.

In a press conference in Kuala Lumpur today, Masitah confessed that she is not 'mentally stable' since receiving the call that her husband will be detained for another two years.

"How easy for them (the authorities) to just make a phone call and tell us that your husband's detention has been extended? Just a phone call," said the mother of six children, fighting back tears.

At this juncture, Siti Munawiyah (left), whose husband Mohd Faiq Hafidh is also confined in Kamunting camp where the ISA detainees are held, sobbed quietly besides Masitah.

But tears will not help them survive in real life.

Masitah appealed to the government for financial support for their children.

"At least I can work. But how about other wives who cannot work? How can they carry on with their lives?" she asked.

Guantanamo Bay camp

Earlier, the joint conference by Abolish ISA Movement (AIM), Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) and PAS called on the government to close down the Kamunting detention camp.

AIM chairperson Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh said Premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi should apply his call on the US government to close down the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention camp in his own country too.

"The Kamunting camp for ISA detainees is no better. Over the decades and until now, there have been numerous official complaints by both detainees and their families documenting incident of torture, both mental and physical," he said.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and British Premier Tony Blair recently urged the US Government to close down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

Syed pointed out that the special UN Commission on Guantanamo Bay detention camp recognised not just the violations of rights by torturing of detainees but also the arbitrary detention and detention without trial.

"Again, the Kamunting detention camp is no better as many are being detained there arbitrarily and without rights to trial under the ISA," he said.

"As Malaysia's prime minister and head of the OIC (Organisation of Islamic Conferences), what high moral ground can Abdullah claim in giving advice to the US if he cannot first put things right in his own country," he asked.

On the same note, PKR information chief Tian Chua said a report on Malaysia's human rights under Abdullah's administration will be compiled for discussion at the UN Human Rights Convention to be held in Geneva next month.

"A lot of people in the international community assume that the human rights have improved under Abdullah. We want to put on record and indicate that it actually has no improvement," he added.

Also present at the present conference were PKR Wanita chief Fuziah Salleh and PAS Youth secretary Ahmad Sabki Yusof.