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VIII. Acknowledgements

This report was written by Sahr MuhammedAlly, the Alan R. and Barbara D. Finberg fellow for Human Rights Watch. It is based on research conducted in Malaysia in July 2005 and subsequently via telephone and email. The report was edited by Brad Adams, executive director of the Asia Division and Sam Zia-Zarifi, deputy director of the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch. The report was also reviewed by Dinah PoKempner, general counselof Human Rights Watch, and Joe Saunders, deputy program director. Ranee Adipat, associate in the Children’s Rights Division and Jo-Anne Prud’homme, associate in the Asia Division proofread and provided technical assistance. Production and further assistance was provided by Andrea Holley, Rafael Jiminez, Fitzroy Hepkins, and Jose Martinez. Mabel Cheah translated the detainees’ statements.

Human Rights Watch would like to those who spoke to us for this report, some of whom, included family members, did so at personal risk. We are extremely grateful to Edmund Bon, attorney for many of the detainees, Chang Lih Kang and Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh from the Abolish ISA Movement; Elizabeth Wong of HAKAM; Cynthia Gabriel and Seah Li Ling of SUARAM; Latheefa Koya, attorney for some ISA detainees, and Dato Karam Chand Vohrah and Long Seh Lih of SUHAKAM, all of whom provided invaluable assistance and shared with us their insights. We would also like to thank Lim Kit Siang (DAP) and Datuk Mohamed Nazri (UMNO).