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| “I am neither a terrorist nor a sponsor”
Aliran Monthly 2003:10
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On 30 June 2002, about 12 policemen from the Special Branch surrounded the building where I was conducting an afternoon prayer in Shah Alam, Selangor. Immediately, after my prayer, I was arrested by the policemen and was taken to the Police Remand Centre (PRC), Bukit Aman, Kuala Lumpur. I was unjustly remanded there, from the above mentioned date to 21 August 2001under the Internal Security Act (ISA). To my greatest surprise, it was during one of the interrogation which I was subjected to when I protested to them just to know the rationale behind my arrest and unlawful detention, that I was told I had been arrested in connection to terrorism and sponsoring of Islamic militant groups. After interrogations, on 21 August 2001, I was transferred from the PRC, Bukit Aman to the Detention Camp in Taiping. I was handcuffed and forced to put on a dark spectacles as if I was an armed robber by six dreadful policemen from the Special Branch and some of them were armed to the teeth. This ugly scenario is better experienced than imagined.
A notice was brought to me — the wording was to that I had completed two years in detention — which I signed after perusal. I was then taken to the Immigration Headquarters, Damansara, Kuala Lumpur and from there I was handed over to the Immigration by the Police and they swung to action immediately. A notice was brought to me by the Immigration, stating that my resident’s permit had been cancelled. I protested and demanded justice, since the offences which they allegedly claimed that I committed had not been buttressed, neither had they provided any evidence to substantiate their claims. Above all, I had not been taken to court let alone indicted. Irrespective of all my protests and the above-mentioned reasons, they were bent on cancelling my resident’s permit and they mounted pressure on me to sign to which I later succumbed. I want to bring to the attention of human rights groups, religious groups and the general public the degree of injustice and the blatant violation and abuse of my human rights. I am denied access to my doctor, even when I was indisposed. No proper medication, inadequate food — what is served is very poor. I was denied freedom of movement, freedom of associations and freedom of religion. I am unjustly and unlawfully kept in detention without trial. And, above all, I was separated from my family and I am the bread winner of the family. Thus they are subject to an untold hardship. I was told several times that they want to deport me back to my country, Indonesia, but until now, I am still in detention. All those injustices have been meted out to me in the name of terrorism, by the Malaysian government. I am neither a terrorist nor a sponsor. Islamic doctrines totally and unequivocally condemn any act of terrorism. Now e-mail us and tell us what you think. Your comments might be published in the Letters section of our print magazine, Aliran Monthly. Alternatively, post your comments to the message board. | |||||||||||||||
Islamic doctrines totally and unequivocally condemn any act of terrorism.
