Monday, September 15, 2008

Prisoner of Conscience

Sin Chew reporter was released after 18 hours of detention, what a relief. But RPK and Teresa Kok were still imprisoned under ISA. There are increasing voices to call for the release of RPK and Teresa Kok, civilians and those in the government alike. The de facto minister of law has since tendered his resignation as he was also in disagreement with the government misusing ISA for detention not related to terrorism. Can Prime Minister turn a deaf ear to the people?

ISA is against peace and democracy. We can see that it is so conveniently used to detain someone that in the view of government had threatened national security. Are those people really terrorists? Or are they prisoner of conscience. Why ISA? IS the government incapable of acting against the lawbreakers with the laws that we are having now? Or, simply, the ISA is being used as it is so convenient? Can't our law enforcers find enough evidence to charge the ISA detainees in open court?

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