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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.

Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.

We opposed unlimited detention without trial. We stood up for trial by jury as well. And of course we spoke up for asylum seekers and for the most vulnerable in our society.

Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy.