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34937
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TWO JI MEMBERS AMONG SIX ISA DETAINEES FREED
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 10 (Bernama) -- Six Internal Security Act (ISA)
detainees,
including two Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) members, have been released from detention,
Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar said.
He said that the six were freed as they no longer posed security threats to
the country.
Five of them -- comprising two Thai nationals who were members of a
separatist group, and three Malaysians, one of them a member of the JI militant
group -- were released on Dec 4, he said.
Another Malaysian, Yazid Sufaat, also a JI member, was released last
month,
said Syed Hamid.
"If a detainee no longer poses a threat to the country, the person will be
released after a rehabilitation and returned to the society," he told reporters
at parliament lobby here Wednesday.
Syed Hamid said there were 75 ISA detainees at the time when he was
appointed to the portfolio in March but the number had gone down to 46 people at
the moment.
He said that of the total, 16 were JI members, 13 Darul Islam members, 10
involved in identity card and passport forgeries, five Hindraf members and two
individuals who were working for foreign intelligence agencies.
On the landslide in Bukit Antarabangsa, Syed Hamid said, he would instruct
the National Registration Department (NRD) to assist the victims who lost their
identification documents in the incident.
If need be, the NRD would open a special counter near the landslide area to
facilitate the renewals of the documents, he added.
-- BERNAMA
detainees,
including two Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) members, have been released from detention,
Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar said.
He said that the six were freed as they no longer posed security threats to
the country.
Five of them -- comprising two Thai nationals who were members of a
separatist group, and three Malaysians, one of them a member of the JI militant
group -- were released on Dec 4, he said.
Another Malaysian, Yazid Sufaat, also a JI member, was released last
month,
said Syed Hamid.
"If a detainee no longer poses a threat to the country, the person will be
released after a rehabilitation and returned to the society," he told reporters
at parliament lobby here Wednesday.
Syed Hamid said there were 75 ISA detainees at the time when he was
appointed to the portfolio in March but the number had gone down to 46 people at
the moment.
He said that of the total, 16 were JI members, 13 Darul Islam members, 10
involved in identity card and passport forgeries, five Hindraf members and two
individuals who were working for foreign intelligence agencies.
On the landslide in Bukit Antarabangsa, Syed Hamid said, he would instruct
the National Registration Department (NRD) to assist the victims who lost their
identification documents in the incident.
If need be, the NRD would open a special counter near the landslide area to
facilitate the renewals of the documents, he added.
-- BERNAMA