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The Internal Security Act 1960 (ISA) of Singapore is a statute that grants the executive power to enforce preventive detention, prevent subversion, suppress organized violence against persons and property, and do other things incidental to the internal security of Singapore.
In December, the ISD arrested 15 people under the Internal Security Act for terrorism-related activities. [12] 13 of the arrested people were determined to be JI members and were served with Orders of Detention. The other two non-JI members were released on Restriction Orders. [12] Aslam would later be arrested by the Northern Alliance in ...
Teo stood as a candidate for the Singapore Democratic Party in the 2011 general election.She is pictured here at a rally in Clementi on 28 April 2011.. On 21 May 1987, Teo Soh Lung, a lawyer, was detained under the Internal Security Act ("ISA") [1] of Singapore together with other persons for purported involvement in a conspiracy to overthrow the Government by force and replace it with a ...
The Internal Security Act, [11] among other things, authorizes the Minister for Home Affairs to make an order directing that a person be detained for up to two years at a time if the president is satisfied that the detention is necessary to prevent the person from acting in a manner prejudicial to the security of Singapore or the maintenance of ...
Chng Suan Tze v. Minister for Home Affairs is a seminal case in administrative law decided by the Court of Appeal of Singapore in 1988. The Court decided the appeal in the appellants' favour on a technical ground, but considered obiter dicta the reviewability of government power in preventive detention cases under the Internal Security Act ("ISA").
The Internal Security Act is now shielded from unconstitutionality by Article 149 of the Constitution. Appeals to the United Kingdom's Privy Council were also abolished because the government averred that only the local courts should be involved in matters that involved Singapore's national security.
Following their arrest in October, they were detained under Singapore's Internal Security Act, which allows suspects to be held for lengthy periods without trial.
The preamble of the Internal Security Act states that it is an Act to "provide for the internal security of Singapore, preventive detention, the prevention of subversion, the suppression of organised violence against persons and property in specified areas of Singapore, and for matters incidental thereto". [91]