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Bar Council dissapointed Raja Petra sent to Kamunting PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 23 September 2008 11:27pm

©Bernama (Used by permission)

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 (Bernama) -- The Bar Council said Tuesday it was disappointed with the Government's decision in using the Internal Security Act (ISA) to issue a two-year detention order against prominent blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin.

"The issue of the order on the eve of the hearing of his habeas corpus application is troubling, as it undermined the application," said its president, Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan, in a statement to Bernama.

She said if Raja Petra had committed offences he can be charged in Court but the ISA was being used against him where other avenues that afford him a chance to defend himself existed.

"It confirms the impression that the ISA is being used for purposes other than national security. It is being used to stifle dissent," she said.

Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar said today he signed the two-year detention order of the Malaysia-Today blogger for allegedly publishing articles that insulted Islam.

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