The ISA 1960: relevancy to the present situation in Malaysia / Nurhasyimah Nawawi, Nurul Shafika Zainal Abidin and Norhidayu Arshad

• Main Authors: Nawawi, Nurhasyimah, Zainal Abidin, Nurul Shafika, Arshad, Norhidayu
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Internal security; Criminal law
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31913/1/31913.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31913/

In 1960, preventive detention law was placed on permanent footing with the enactment of Internal Security Act 1960 (ISA) which aimed in combating communists. The Act gives the Executive a very wide power to detain any person if he satisfies that it is necessary to prevent the person from acting in a...