Arqam man assails KL's detentions<\/p>\n
BANGKOK (AFP): A senior Al Arqam official based in Thailand
\nhas assailed Malaysia's detention without trial of sect members
\nand disputed the purported confession of sect leader Ashaari
\nMuhamad.<\/p>\n
Al Arqam Supreme Council member Ustaz Abu Daulah said in a
\nletter published in The Nation daily yesterday that Ashaari's
\nreported confession was \"another (Malaysian) government
\npropaganda ploy to deceive the public.\"<\/p>\n
Ashaari and other sect members, held under Malaysia's tough
\nInternal Security Act (ISA), \"were denied fundamental rights and
\ntreated worse than criminals by the Malaysian police,\" the writer
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Responding to a speech and news conference in Bangkok last
\nweek by Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, he
\nrecalled that Anwar had vowed to fight against the ISA after he
\nwas detained under the law for nearly two years as a social
\nactivist in the 1970s.<\/p>\n
\"Now he is in the government and all has been forgotten. Worse
\nstill, from a fervent Islamic intellectual fighting against
\nsocial injustice he has now turned to inventing lies and half-
\ntruths to shut others up, by using the most dreadful ISA,\" the
\nwriter held.<\/p>",
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