FAC News - Thursday, January 31, 2002 1:23 PM

Badrulamin sent back to Kamunting today – arrested for praying

Dr Badrulamin Bahron, the recently released Internal Security Act detainee, was re-arrested this morning and sent back to the Kamunting Detention Centre.

According to Zumrah, Dr Badrulamin’s wife, last night they received a phone call asking Dr Badrulamin to report to the Rawang Police Station this morning. They thought that this was just a routine matter since Dr Badrulamin has to report to the police station every Monday.

Zumar and Dr Badrulamin, not suspecting anything amiss, drove to the Rawang Police Station and Zumah waited in the car while Dr Badrulamin went inside to report.

After half-an-hour, Dr Badrulamin had still not come out yet but Zumrah never suspected a thing. At about 10.45am, one of the police officers came out to invite her into the police station where she was told that Dr Badrulamin had been re-arrested under ISA and will be sent back to the Kamunting Detention Centre.

Dr Badrulamin has been accused of breaching the terms of his release by saying a prayer at a public function. Amongst the other terms of his release are that he must not give public talks, participate in political activities, or attend any public functions. Dr Badrulamin may also not hold any political party position. Further to that, he is to remain indoors from 10.00pm every night to 6.00am the following morning, must not leave the Gombak area, and is to report to the police station every Monday.

Dr Badrulamin was supposed to appear in court on 30 January 2002 to face charges of breaching the terms of his release. However, the court had no clue whatsoever of the case and contacted the police for clarification.

The police also did not know anything about the matter and informed Dr Badrulamin that they would not be able to proceed until they "received further instructions from Putra Jaya".

It is believed that the result of this "further instruction from Putra Jaya" is this morning's re-arrest of Dr Badrulamin under the ISA.