URGENT ACTION: Help Khairul Anuar Ahmad Zainuddin

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Amnesty Stop Torture
FEAR OF TORTURE
Khairul Anuar Ahmad Zainuddin
2001-07-05 Malaysia

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Khairul Anuar Ahmad Zainuddin is at grave risk of torture following his arrest today (5 July). His arrest also increases fears of a government crackdown against students calling for political reform.

Khairul Anuar Ahmad Zainuddin is a student of electrical engineering at the Institut Kemahiran Mara (IKM).He was arrested in Kuala Lumpur under the Internal Security Act (ISA), as he accompanied six student activists who had been told to present themselves at a police station in connection with their alleged participation in a peaceful demonstration against the ISA which took place outside the National Mosque on 8 June. Police reportedly later took Khairul Anuar Ahmad Zainuddin to his residence and seized a computer and some printed materials.

Under the ISA, any person suspected of ‘threatening national security' can be arrested and held incommunicado in unknown locations for up to 60 days for police investigation. Denied access to lawyers, independent doctors or relatives they are at grave risk of physical and psychological torture or ill-treatment as Special Branch (state security) police attempt to coerce confessions and to
elicit information. The Home Minister can sign subsequently detention orders of up to two years, renewable indefinitely, without charge or trial.

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