Aliran.com, 18 Sep 2011hink Centre (TC), one of Singapore’s oldest political NGOs, welcomes and applauds the announcement by the Malaysian government to repeal the controversial 51-year-old law allowing for detention without trial and to ease other legislation curbing civil liberties.
Since TC’s founding in 1999, one of the first human rights issues that it championed for is the abolishment of the ISA. In 2000, TC drew widespread international attention when it initiated a peaceful demonstration as part of its Abolish ISA campaign at the nation state’s Speakers’ Corner in Hong Lim Park. Several TC leaders were however called up by police for investigations in the aftermath of the demonstration. Full story
