Singh-detention challenge
NZPA Hong Kong Karpal Singh, the lawyer for the condemned New Zealander, Lorraine Cohen, plans to challenge his detention under Malaysia’s Internal Security Act in the High Court at Ipoh on Monday. Mr Singh’s Kuala Lum-pur-based legal assistant, Oh Choong Ghee, said that his employer had filed a
writ with the court seeking to challenge his detention.
The High Court has agreed to hear the case on Monday.
The Deputy Leader of the Democratic Action Party has been detained since October 27 without trial by the Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir, for allegedly inciting racial unrest.
Mr Oh said that Mr Singh expected medical and police authorities to allow him to be in court to argue his case. Mr Singh, whose detention has resulted in uncertainty surrounding the timing of the appeals of Lorraine and Aaron Cohen to the Supreme Court, is at present a patient in Kuala Lumpur’s General Hospital.
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