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The Five
1 Activist Hishamuddin Rais
2 PAS Hulu Selangor assemblyperson Saari Sungib
3 PKR supreme council member Badrulamin Bahrom
4 PKR Batu MP Chua Tian Chang, who is better known as Tian Chua
5 Badaruddin Ismail
The court found that theywere subject to “cruel” treatment during their detention.
They were shamed, made to change their clothing in front of police personnel, made to walk barefoot into filthy toilet, interrogated for hours on end and for the first few days of detention, the Muslims among them were not allowed to perform their prayers.
The court also found that the interrogations conducted showed the arrests had nothing to do with national security “but was about opposition politics”.
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Malaysiakini
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Five former Internal Security Act detainees were in 2001 detained unlawfully and in bad faith, the High Court in Kuala Lumpur ruled today.
In deciding so, Justice Lau Bee Lan awarded activist Hishamuddin Rais and four others RM15,000 each, for every day of their detention under Section 73 of the Internal Security Act, as well as RM30,000 each as aggravated damages.
However, the court found in favour of the defendants in relation to Section 8 of the ISA.
The court further found that the press statement made by then police inspector-general Norian Mai following the arrests of the plaintiffs in April 2001 was defamatory to them, except to Badaruddin Ismail.
For this, Justice Lau awarded RM60,000 in general damages and RM40,000 for aggravated and exemplary damages.
This brings the total damages for to RM4.06 million.
The court awarded RM200,000 as costs.
Five ex-ISA detainees awarded RM4mil in damages
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