YB. R.S.N RAYER - A.D.U.N. SERI DELIMA, PENANG

He said Prime Minister’s revelation brought into focus the necessity to set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry to probe Dr Mahathir’s abuse of powers then.

Karpal Singh, who was himself arrested under the ISA in 1987, said that Dr Mahathir had him rearrested even after the Ipoh High Court had freed him in March 9, 1988.
“What I cannot accept about Dr Mahathir is the matter in which he abused his power, by destroying the judiciary and the abuse of the ISA to get to political opponents like me,” he said in a statement yesterday.

On another matter, Karpal Singh called on Abdullah to take action against the negative publicity concerning maths prodigy Sufiah Yusof, who had reportedly been working as a prostitute in Britain.
“I call upon Abdullah to direct the Malaysian High Commissioner to Britain to meet up with Sufiah and get her back on the right track,” he said.