KUALA LUMPUR: A writ of habeas corpus seeking the release of lawyers M.
Manoharan and V. Ganabatirau members from detention under the Internal Security
Act (ISA) will be filed soon.
DAP national chairman Karpal Singh said the two lawyers for Hindraf were party
members.
“We will file the papers because the detention involves our members,” Karpal
Singh told reporters at the Parliament lobby.
(The writ of habeas corpus has historically been an important instrument for the
safeguarding of individual freedom against arbitrary state action. It is a
summons with the force of a court order addressed to the custodian, such as a
prison official, demanding that an unlawfully detained person be brought before
the court for release.)
Also detained under the ISA yesterday were lawyers P. Uthayakumar and R.
Kenghadharan, and Hindraf coordinator T. Vasanthakumar.
Karpal Singh said the use of ISA under such circumstances could not be
justified.
“They should be given an opportunity to face trial in open court if there is
evidence,” he added.
Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang concurred, “If they have committed an offence,
bring them to court to stand trial. If it is sedition, charge them in court.”
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz
said the five were detained as public sentiments continued to be affected.
“I believe the police have all the information to use the ISA for fear that the
internal security of the country is compromised,” he said, adding that there
were also SMSes spreading allegations against the Government.
MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said the Government had taken the right
action to put the five Hindraf leaders under ISA detention.
“Peace needs to be maintained in the country. If you keep creating discord, then
the Government has no choice but to invoke the ISA,” he told newsmen in Johor
Baru.
Parti Keadilan Rakyat vice-president R. Sivarasa said unrealistic demands or
loose or exaggerated language by Hindraf leaders could not be equated to
“threats to national security.”
“The practice of locking up a citizen for two years using vague and unproven
allegations of being a threat to national security has no place in any civilised
society,” he said.
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