Opposition politician Chua Tian Chang said he was threatened with punishment if he revealed details of interrogation methods and questions to the Human Rights Commission (Suhakam), while detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) in 2001.
Better known as Tian Chua, he told the Kuala Lumpur High Court today that he was also barred from speaking freely to members of his family.“I was told to confine the conversation to the condition of the cell, the food and my health,” he told Justice Lau Bee Lan.
He said he was explicitly told not to divulge questions asked by interrogators and the methods they used, or the security measures at the detention centre.
Chua, then the Keadilan vice-president, said he was threatened with punishment if he disobeyed, although the penalty was never specified.
At the time, he had been detained for two months for alleged involvement in militant activities, following which a two-year detention order was imposed on him.
He is among the plaintiffs in a civil suit brought by a group of ex-ISA detainees against the government and then Inspector-General of Police Norian Mai.
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