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I REFER to senior lawyer Datuk Seri Jahaberdeen Mohamed Yunoos’ column “What was all that with Sosma?” (Through Many Windows, Sunday Star, March 27; online at bit.ly/star_parliament).

As explained by the learned gentleman, the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma) is a law that provides for the procedures, evidential rules and powers (including that of arrest) in relation to “security offences”.

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