Govt considers public interest in keeping ISA - Hamid Lebar

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The Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) is only looking from its perspective when it called for the Internal Security Act to be reviewed, Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said.

He said the Government was looking at the issue at a much wider perspective and had to take into consideration the interest of the public.

Speaking to reporters after launching Desa Damai, a drug rehab centre, Syed Hamid said Suhakam should submit its views and grouses and the Government would look at them.

He also hit out at Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamarudin, whom he said had published a satirical mock interview with him.

“It is very irresponsible and the article misleads the people,” he said, adding that the article was written to make him look stupid.[read more]

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“Usually dictators favour the ISA because they can bypass all the laws and don’t need the constitution,” he said.