KUALA LUMPUR: The Home Ministry should provide families of Internal Security Act (ISA) detainees with financial support in lieu of the loss of income caused by the detention, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia said.
Suhakam vice-chairman Tan Sri Harun Mahmud Hashim said the financial support should be provided because the detainees were not convicted criminals, and their dependents should not be made to suffer.
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