The New Straits Times
KUALA
LUMPUR: A lawyer, representing canteen assistant Muhammad Hilmi Hasim,
yesterday filed an application against the warden of Jinjang Detention
Centre and the Inspector-General of Police seeking for his release from
detention.
Speaking
to reporters after filing the habeas corpus application at the High
Court registry, counsel Fadiah Nadwa Fikri said Hilmi's detention under
the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act was unconstitutional.
He
showed reporters a supporting affidavit by Hilmi's adoptive mother,
Rahamah Abdul Majid, in which she stated that her son was arrested along
with canteen operator, Yazid Sufaat, at the Jalan Duta court complex at
12.30pm on Feb 7. She also said that another person, Halimah Hussein,
was arrested on the same day in Kajang.
(Yazid,
a former Internal Security Act detainee, was charged on Feb 8 at the
Ampang magistrate's court with promoting an ideology intended to incite
the people of Syria while Halimah was charged with abetting him.)
In
her affidavit, Rahamah said Hilmi, 32, was not told the reason for his
arrest and the reluctance by police to charge him meant they did not
have any reason to believe that he was involved in any security offence.
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