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The Internal Security Act (ISA) in Malaysia has taken on the dimensions of the feared bogeyman that mothers threaten unyielding children with. Any opposition to government policies is being seen as a good case for invoking the ISA. The excuses have begun to verge on the whimsical. The implications are ominous.
First 60 days
(wiki)A person detained under the ISA during the first 60 days is held incommunicado, with no access to the outside world. Furthermore, lawyers and family members are not allowed access to the detainee during this initial period. If a two-year detention order is signed, the detainee is taken to the Kamunting Detention Centre to serve his or her two-year term, during which family members are allowed to visit. Otherwise, the detainee may be released.
Torture
Torture is reportedly a major part of an ISA detainee's daily life. Former detainees have testified to being subjected to severe physical and psychological torture that include one or more of the following: physical assault, forced nudity, sleep deprivation, round-the-clock interrogation, death threats, threats of bodily harm to family members, including threats of rape and bodily harm to their children. Also, detainees are confined in individual and acutely small cells with no light and air, in what is believed to be secret holding cells. These interrogation techniques and acts of torture are designed to humiliate and frighten detainees into revealing their weaknesses and breaking down their defences.
ISA detainees have even turned up with bruises, but such results of assaults will not be investigated by the police. ISA detention is effectively a free-for-all for the police to torture and assault the detainees. Solitary confinement takes place in tiny cells that measure roughly 3-feet by 3-feet, with hardly any room to kneel and sit. These cells will not have any drainage system and are hardly cleaned. Cells are left filthy with unbearable stench. Excrement and urine from previous detainees are left uncleaned within the cell.
Although physical abuse is typically limited to bruising, the detainees are seldom beaten up to the point of being disabled, or having broken bones. There have been cases, however, of female detainees being raped and male detainees being sodomized.
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