ISA poll: Let’s have another go…

 Human rights  24 Responses »
Aug 122009
 

The ISA poll on the KDN website has shown some wildly fluctuating results.

From 90 per cent of some 14,000 respondents who want the ISA abolished on 10 August, it has now plunged to just 49 per cent of over 17,000 respondents today! Amazing…

(P.S. The poll on the KDN website was removed less than 24 hours after this posting.)

So let’s try another poll here to see what we get. (The earlier poll on this blog showed that 91 per cent wanted the ISA repealed.)

What should be done with the ISA?

  • Abolish it (95%, 1,758 Votes)
  • Review it and let it continue (5%, 87 Votes)
  • Not sure (0%, 4 Votes)

Total Voters: 1,847

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..and they keep coming back to pray for ISA detainees

 Christianity, Human rights  5 Responses »
Nov 262008
 

Praying in solidarity with those unjustly detained

They keep coming back, week after week, to pray for the release of the detainees… What drives them to pray for total strangers who have been unjustly detained? It is their belief that God cares deeply about justice for everyone.

The weekly Wednesday Masses continue to be held at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Pulau Tikus, Penang. About a hundred people turned up tonight to pray for the release of ISA detainees and the repeal of the ISA. One senior nun was seen wearing not one, but two ‘Abolish ISA’ badges!

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400 brave the rain in struggle to abolish ISA

 Civil society, Democracy, Human rights  9 Responses »
Oct 182008
 

They braved the rain; their spirits were not dampened

Singing Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song”

Bob Marley performs the Redemption Song

I was wondering how many people would actually turn up for the final candlelight vigil seeking the abolition of the ISA because it started pelting down at around 9.00pm again. Unlike last week, the rain did not clear for a while. But when I arrived, I was heartened to see so many people had already gathered there, some with brollies, others without. This was probably the largest crowd gathered over the last six weeks of vigils – in the rain, some more!

They sang, they listened to speeches, they took an ikrar (pledge) to continue the struggle to abolish the ISA. Among the speakers was Aliran president P Ramakrishnan, who revealed that a police officer had asked him, minutes earlier, to get in touch with an inspector at the station for reasons unknown. “I have nothing to do with the inspector and if he wants to speak to me, he should contact me,” Rama told the crowd.

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