PUSAT TAHANAN GUANTANAMO DITUTUP MANAKALA MASIH ADA 46 TAHANAN ISA DI KEM KEMUNTING

Journalists inspect the closed "Camp X-Ray" overgrown with vegetation at US Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, December 9, 2008


Kemunting Camp still houses ISA detainees comprising 16 JI members, 13 Darul Islam members, 10 involved in identity card and passport forgeries, five Hindraf members and two individuals who were working for foreign intelligence agencies.

2 JI MEN AMONG 6 ISA DETAINEES FREED
Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 10, 2008): Six Internal Security Act (ISA) detainees, including two Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) members, have been released from detention, Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said. (FILE PHOTO)

He said the six were freed as they no longer posed security threats to the country.

Five of them -- comprising two Thai nationals who were members of a separatist group, and three Malaysians, one of them a member of the JI militant group -- were released on Dec 4, he said.

Another Malaysian, Yazid Sufaat, also a JI member, was released last month, said Syed Hamid.

"If a detainee no longer poses a threat to the country, the person will be released after rehabilitation and returned to the society," he told reporters at parliament lobby here yesterday.

Syed Hamid said there were 75 ISA detainees when he was appointed to the portfolio in March but the number had gone down to 46 people at the moment.

He said that of the total, 16 were JI members, 13 Darul Islam members, 10 involved in identity card and passport forgeries, five Hindraf members and two individuals who were working for foreign intelligence agencies.

On the landslide in Bukit Antarabangsa, Syed Hamid said he would instruct the National Registration Department (NRD) to assist the victims who lost their identification documents in the incident.

If need be, the NRD would open a special counter near the landslide area to facilitate the renewals of the documents, he added.