Bibliography

STATUTES

Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950).
For text, see P. R. Ghandhi, Blackstone’s International Human Rights Documents (Oxford University Press, 3rd Edition 2002) pg 215

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966).
For text, see I. Brownlie and G.S. Goodwin-Gill, Basic Documents on Human Rights, (Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 2002), pg 182.

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989).
For text, see P. R. Ghandhi, Blackstone’s International Human Rights Documents (Oxford University Press, 3rd Edition 2002) pg 119

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948).
For text, see I. Brownlie and G.S. Goodwin-Gill, Basic Documents on Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 2002), pg 18.

Federal Constitution of Malaysia

Constitution of Singapore

Malaysia’s Lockup Rules, 1953

Malaysia’s Internal Security Act 1960

Malaysia’s Internal Security (Detained Persons) Rules 1960

Singapore’s Internal Security Act 1960

Singaporean Internal Security (Detained Persons) Rules 1960

DOCUMENTS

General Comment No. 8: Right to liberty and security of persons (Art. 9) : . 30/06/82

General Comment No. 20: Replaces general comment 7 concerning prohibition of torture and cruel treatment or punishment (Art. 7) : . 10/03/92

General Comment No. 21 Replaces general comment 9 concerning humane treatment of persons deprived of liberty (Art. 10) : . 10/04/92

RESEARCH

Books

A. Harding, J. Hatchard (Eds) - Preventive Detention and Security Law. Dordrecht ; London : M. Nijhoff Publishers, 1993

Chee Soon Juar - To Be Free – Stories from Asia’s Struggle Against Oppression. Monash Asia Institute 1998

Damien Kingsbury & Greg Barton (Eds) – Difference and Tolerance – Human Rights Issues in South East Asia. Deakin University Press 1994

Eide & Others (Eds) – The Universal Declaration on Human Rights – A Commentary. Scandinavian University Press 1992

James T.H. Tang (Ed) – Human Rights & International Relations in the Asia-Pacific Regions. Cassell Publishers Limited 1995

Jeffrey Jowell & Jonathan Cooper – Understanding Human Rights Principles. Hart Publishing 2001

Nigel Rodley – The Treatment of Prisoners Under International Law (2nd Ed). Oxford Univeristy Press 1999

Philip J. Eldridge – The Politics of Human Rights in South East Asia. Routledge 2002

S. Frankowski, D. Shelton (Eds) - Preventive Detention – A Comparative and International Law Perspective. Matinus Nijhoff Publisher, 1992 Kluwer Academic Publishers

Malaysian Human Rights Report 2001 – Civil and Political Rights. SUARAM Komunikasi

Silencing All Critics – Human Rights Violations in Singapore. New York : Asia Watch, 1990

Tangled Web – Dissent, Deterrence and the 27 October 1987 Crackdown in Malaysia. Haymarket : CARPA, 1988

The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention – Study of the Right of Everyone To Be Free From Arbitrary Arrest, Detention and Exile. New York : United Nations, [2000]

Websites

Convicted Before Trial - Indefinite Detention Under Malaysia’s Emergency Ordinance
Human Rights Watch Publication
http://hrw.org/reports/2006/malaysia0806/

Detained Without Trial – Abuse of the ISA Detainees In Malaysia
Human Rights Watch Publication
http://hrw.org/reports/2005/malaysia0905/1.htm

HRW – Overview of Human Rights Issues in Malaysia (December 2005)
Human Rights Watch Publication
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/01/18/malays12257_txt.htm

Human Rights in the Administration of Justice: A Manual on Human Rights for Judges, Prosecutors and Lawyers
http://www.ohchr.org/english/about/publications/docs/CHAPTER_5.pdf

ISA detainee talks about PAP crookedness
http://www.singaporedemocrat.org/articlemichaelfernandez.html

Islamic Human Rights Commission - Briefing: Anti-Terrorism Legislation in South East Asia
http://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=973

Malaysia: End Political Arrests
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/04/malaysia0430.htm

Malaysia's fearsome security law
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1420739.stm

Malaysia’s ISA: No limits
http://www.hrdc.net/sahrdc/hrfeatures/HRF70.htm

Malaysia's Internal Security Act and Suppression of Political Dissent
Human Rights Watch Publication
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/asia/malaysia-bck-0513.htm

Malaysia: Release Political Detainees
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2001/04/12/malays237.htm

Malaysia: The Internal Security Act,
http://news.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA280062003?open&of=ENG-315

National Human Rights Society (Malaysia) – AI Report
http://www.hakam.org/isaamnesty.htm

Review of the Internal Security Act
http://www.suhakam.org.my/docs/document_resource/isa.pdf

The Anti-ISA Campaign Page
http://www.freeanwar.net/index3.htm

Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (and the many links therein)
http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/detention/index.htm


Cases

UK

Liversidge v Anderson (1942) AC 206
Nakkuda Ali v. Jayaratne (1951) AC 66
Anisminic Ltd v. Foreign Compensation Commission (1969) AC 147, HL
R v Inland Revenue Commissioners, ex parte Rossminster [1980] AC 952
Reg v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Khawaja [1983] 2 WLR 321

Malaysia

Aminah v Superintendent Of Prisons, Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan [1968] 1 MLJ 92
Assa Singh v Menteri Besar, Johore [1969] 2 MLJ 30
Karam Singh v Menteri Hal Ehwal Dalam Negeri Malaysia (1969) 2 MLJ 129
Ooi Ah Phua v Officer-in-Charge of Investigations, Kedah/Perlis (1975) 1 MLJ 93
Yeap Hock Seng v Minister of Home Affairs (1975) 2 MLJ 279
PE Long @ Jimmy (1976) 2 MLJ 133
Re Tan Boon Liat v Menteri Hal Ehwal Dalam Negeri (1977) 2 MLJ 108
Mak Sik Kwong (No. 2) (1977) 2 MLJ 175
Teh Cheng Poh v. Public Prosecutor (1979) 1 MLJ 50
Theresa Lim Chin Chin v. Inspector-General of Police (1988) 1 MLJ 293
Karpal Singh v Minister of Home Affairs (1988) 1 MLJ 468
Yit Hon Kit v Minister of Home Affairs (1988) 2 MLJ 638
Lim Guan Eng v Menteri Hal Ehwal Dalam Negeri, Malaysia (1988) 3 MLJ 323
Minister for Home Affairs, Malaysia v Karpal Singh (1988) 3 MLJ 29
Minister of Home Affairs v Jamaluddin bin Othman (1989) 1 SCR 311
Abdul Ghani Haroon v Ketua Polis Negara and another application [2001] 2 MLJ 689
Abdul Ghani Haroon v Ketua Polis Negara and another application (No. 4) [2001] 6 MLJ 198
Gurcharan Singh a/l Bachittar Singh v. Penguasa, Tempat Tahanan Perlindungan Kamunting, Taiping (2002) 4 MLJ 255
Mohamad Ezam Bin Mohd Noor v. Ketua Polis Negara (2002) 4 MLJ 449
Abdul Razak bin Baharudin v. Ketua Polis Negara [2006] 1 MLJ 320
Sejahratul Dursina @ Chomel bte Abdullah v Kerajaan Malaysia [2006] 1 MLJ 405
Yazid bin Sufaat v. Suruhanjaya Pilihanraya Malaysia [2006] 3 MLJ 587

Singapore

Lim Hock Siew & Ors v. Minister of Interior and Defence [1965 - 1968] 1 SLR 697
Lee Mau Seng v Minister for Home Affairs, Singapore (1971) 1 SLR 508
Lau Lek Eng & Ors v. Minister of Home Affairs & Anor [1972 - 1974] 1 SLR 300
Wee Toon Lip & Ors v Minister of Home Affairs & Anor [1972 - 1974] 1 SLR 303
Lau Seng Poh v Minister of Home Affairs & Anor (1985) 1 SLR 132
Ch’ng Suan Tze v Minister of Home Affairs [1988] 1 SLR 132
De Souza v Minister of Home Affairs (1988) 1 SLR 517
Teo Soh Lung v Minister of Home Affairs (1988) 1 SLR 676
Teo Soh Lung v Minister of Home Affairs (1989) 1 SLR 499
Teo Soh Lung v Minister of Home Affairs (1990) 1 SLR 40
Vincent Cheng v. Minister of Home Affairs [1990] 1 SLR 190

Human Rights Committee

Adolfo Drescher Caldas v. Uruguay Communication No. 43/1979
David Alberto Cámpora Schweizer v. Uruguay, Communication No. 66/1980
M.A. Estrella v. Uruguay - Communication No. 74/1980
Guillermo Ignacio Dermit Barbato and Hugo Haroldo Dermit Barbato v. Uruguay Communication No. 84/1981
Luyeye Magana ex-Philibert v. Zaire Communication No. 90/1981
T. Gómez de Voituret v. Uruguay Communication No. 109/1981
Monja Jaona v. Madagascar Communication No. 132/1982
Eric Hammel v. Madagascar Communication No. 155/1983
G. Campbell v. Jamaica Communication No. 248/1987
C. Linton v. Jamaica - Communication No. 255/1987
Antti Vuolanne v. Finland, Communication No. 265/1987
Mario Torres v. Finland Communication No. 291/1988
Hugo van Alphen v. the Netherlands Communication No. 305/1988
H. Kalenga v. Zambia - Communication No. 326/1988
R. Zelaya Blanco v. Nicaragua - Communication No. 328/1988
Berry v Jamaica Communication No. 330/1988
Stephens v Jamaica Communication No. 373/1989
Essono Mika Miha v. Equatorial Guinea Communication No. 414/1990
Y. El-Megreisi v. the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - Communication No. 440/1990
J. Villacnés Ortega v. Ecuador - Communication No. 481/1991
A. W. Mukong v. Cameroon Communication No. 458/1991
Michael and Brian Hill v. Spain Communication No. 526/1993
H. Elahie v. Trinidad and Tobago - Communication No. 533/1993
A v. Australia Communication. No. 560/1993
R. Espinoza de Polay v. Peru Communication No. 577/1994
A. Leehong v. Jamaica - Communication No. 613/1995
M. Freemantle v. Jamaica - Communication No. 625/1995
Arhuacos v. Colombia - Communication No. 612/1995
Clifford McLawrence v. Jamaica Communication no. 702/1996
M. Robinson v. Jamaica - Communication No. 731/1996
Deon McTaggart v. Jamaica Communication No. 749/1997
R. S. Antonaccio v. Uruguay Communication No. R.14/63

European Court of Human Rights

Case of Steel and Others v. the United Kingdom Judgment of 23 September 1998, Reports 1998-VII