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Singapore's Controversial Internal Security Act

National security or political persecution?

Jul 05, 2021
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By: Murray Hunter

Singapore, which has long been the target of academics, historians, jurists, journalists, and international NGOs over its draconian Internal Security Act (ISA), has switched gears from surveilling Communists to Islamists, raising concerns that the government is overreaching as it did in going after leftist.

The government’s use of the IS…

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