ஒரு முஸ்லீம் பயங்கரவாதி சிங்கப்பூரில் கைது

சிங்கப்பூரைச் சேர்ந்த ஒரு முஸ்லிம் தீவிரவாதத்தில் இறங்கி பயங்கரவாத திட்டங்களை வகுத்தார் என்ற காரணத்தால் அவரை சட்டபடி அவரை வெளியே கொண்டுவரமுடியாத சட்டத்தின் கீழ் கைது செய்யப்பட்டு சிறையில் அடைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளார்.

இதுவரை 34 பேர்கள் இவ்வாறு சிறையில் அடைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளதாக செய்தி கூறுகிறது

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Singapore detains ‘self-radicalised’ Muslim
Singapore announced Friday that it had detained Singapore national, Abdul Basheer s/o Abdul Kader, 28, since February, who it said, had made plans to pursue "militant jihad" in Afghanistan.


The Home Ministry said that Basheer is a "self-radicalised" individual not directly recruited by established terrorist groups.


It said that in late 2004, Basheer began developing "the mindset that he had to wage militant jihad in a land where Muslims were under attack".


"His views were shaped by the radical discourse that he avidly looked up on the internet," the statement said.


It is alleged that Basheer had left for an unidentified Middle Eastern country to learn Arabic to communicate with mujahedin fighters.


Soon afterwards, it claimed that he bought a plane ticket to Pakistan, where he planned to obtain training for a militant jihad, and go into Afghanistan.


Brother Michael Broughton of the Singapore Inter-Religious Organisation questioned the need to arrest the man before he had actually engaged in any so called terrorist activities: "From a legal perspective, he is innocent," he said.


"I hope he can be rendered proper psychological help and counselling, rather than criminal treatment."


Under Singapore’s Internal Security Act (ISA), authorities can detain suspects indefinitely without immediate public notice of the arrests.


Basheer has since been detained under the ISA which allows indefinite incarceration without a trial.


There are currently 34 people detained indefinitely without recourse to a legal process under the ISA, AFP reported.