To Malaysia, where the government’s law minister has quit in protest against the arrest of three people under the country’s harsh Internal Security Act. Zaid Ibrahim tendered his resignation saying he disagrees with the use of the act against an anti-government blogger, a journalist and an opposition politician. The three were arrested on Friday and under the ISA can be held indefinitely without trial. So far, only the journalist has been released. Several cabinet ministers have broken rank to speak out against the ISA arrests, and even the Act’s most established base among the ruling elite is feeling on shaky ground.
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TALENT: Syed Hamid Albar, Malaysia’s home affairs minister; Lim Kit Siang of the Democratic Action Party; Edmund Bon, chairman of the Malaysian Bar Association’s Human Rights Commission.
