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byTerence Fernandez, sun2surf.
WHEN Teresa Kok was detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA), other than Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, no one from the Prime Minister’s Department spoke out against the use of the law on a people’s representative. Now, that she is out, Deputy Minister Senator T. Murugiah is up in arms over the food she [...]

By Nevash Nair and Ng Suzhen     September 25, 2008      
Ordinary house pets are fed better food than foreign detainees at the temporary detention centre at the Immigration Department headquarters in Putrajaya, Malay Mail has discovered.
The [...]

I was very disappointed to read in the NST today a report of Datuk Seri Syed Hamid’s statement criticising Senator T. Murugiah for taking up my complaint of poor food being served to ISA detainees. Murugiah is merely performing his duty as a public servant to check and verify my complaint and to recommend improvements, [...]

“The more they talk about food, the more it comes into people’s minds. When you go into ISA detention, you will get dog food,” she said.

The Internal Security Act under Article 149 of the Malaysian Constitution permits the detention, at the discretion of the Home Minister, without charge or trial of any person in respect of whom the Home Minister was satisfied that such detention was necessary.
A week ago, we have witnessed yet again, the abuse of the ISA.
To demonstrate [...]

Senator T. Murugiah met Teresa Kok at our Shah Alam Office around noon today.
Murugiah wanted to know Teresa’s first hand account of the poor quality food being offered to detainees.

of YB Teresa Kok on Friday, 190908-Welcome by Lak-E Wong
They put you in a room small and cold,
wherein you cannot see light or come and go.
Pray: Why did they treat you so?
Echo: The guilty ones have no soul!
It is brutal,
for the mortal;
It is mental,
aimed to hassle.
It was a nightmare for your family,
And it wasn’t easy [...]