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Syed Hamid says ISA stays, hits out at Kayveas |
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Wednesday, 03 December 2008 08:43 |
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(NST) PUTRAJAYA: The Internal Security Act will not be repealed or reviewed soon.
Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said the act had always been used in a just, fair and ethical matter.
"It has never been abused or used for politics," he said in reply to People's Progressive Party president Datuk M. Kayveas' threat to take the party out of Barisan Nasional if the ISA was not amended or repealed by the next general election.
Syed Hamid said the law had proven very effective in ensuring public order and national security.
"Malaysians sometimes don't know how lucky we are in that we have not experienced what is happening in Mumbai and Bangkok now."
He said that when he became home minister, there were 75 people under detention. but this had fallen to 48 people.
"If we find that the detainees have been rehabilitated, or no longer pose any harm, of course, they will be released."
He warned Kayveas not to resort to threats but to adhere to the BN team spirit.
Syed Hamid was speaking to reporters after receiving Singapore Law Minister K. Shanmugam at his office here yesterday.
He said Shanmugam shared the view that preventive detention laws were still needed.
"We both know that we are not out to silent detractors or the opposition. But they must not advocate conflict among the public, or raise sensitive issues."
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