Sin Chew reporter goes home a day after ISA arrest
BUKIT MERTAJAM: Reporter Tan Hoon Cheng was released after being arrested and held for 24 hours under the Internal Security Act 1960.
Tan, a reporter with Sin Chew Daily, returned to her Taman Permai home here at 4pm yesterday.
The other two people who were arrested under the ISA on Friday - Selangor senior executive councillor Teresa Kok and Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin - remained in detention.
Other developments yesterday were:
> Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said Tan was arrested because her safety was under threat;
> Syed Hamid also said it was not his decision but that of the police to detain the three under the ISA; and
> The National Union of Journalists, Bar Council and even several Barisan Nasional component parties voiced their disagreement over the use of the ISA on reporters.
Source: The Star
>‘Reporter’s life was threatened’
>My 18 hours under the ISA
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