FAC News - Monday, February 25, 2002 4:31 PM

THE ISA HABEAS CORPUS APPEAL HEARING – Court cannot interfere in the ISA

The court cannot interfere in the Internal Security Act (ISA) argued the prosecution at the continuation of the Habeas Corpus appeal hearing in the Kuala Lumpur Federal Court today.

The court cannot question any arrest under the ISA the prosecution explained. The arrest is made based on the belief that the person arrested may act prejudicial to the security of the nation.

This belief, in turn, is based on the assumption that there is a probability the person arrested may sometime in the future commit such an act and the court may not interfere or question whether there were enough grounds for this arrest.

The Minister just has to have reason to believe that the person may commit an act prejudicial to the security of the nation though it may not have been committed yet. And he need produce any evidence to support this belief.