GMI condemns use of ISA on blogger Raja Petra
September 13, 2008
Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA (GMI)/Abolish ISA Movement (AIM) condemns the use of the Internal Security Act (ISA) on the 58-year-old editor of popular news portal Malaysia Today, Raja Petra Kamaruddin. According to his wife Marina Lee Abdullah, 10 police personnel from Bukit Aman came to their home in Sungai Buloh at about 1.10pm and arrested him. They also confiscated a computer, some books and VCDs.
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ISA detainee Sanjeev Kumar released
September 11, 2008
Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA (GMI) has been informed that Sanjeev Kumar was released from his detention today, 9 September 2008. He was detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) for allegedly being a foreign spy.
Sanjeev Kumar was arrested under ISA on 28 July 2007 and was sent to Kamunting Detention Camp on the 22 of September 2007. He was also given a detention order for two years during the said period.
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Malaysia’s centralised federal system
June 22, 2008
Compared with those states in other countries using a federal-state system, the constituent states in Malaysia play relatively limited roles in relation to the centre. Francis Loh examines the factors that have contributed towards Malaysia’s centralised federalism.
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