RPK’s wife: It’s about the detention, not the food

TAIPING: The detention of Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamarudin under the Internal Security Act (ISA) should not be sidetracked and turned into an issue concerning food served at Kamunting.

“The issue here is not the food. You have detained him under the ISA although you have already charged him with sedition.”

“The focus is: why the detention?” Raja Petra’s wife Marina Lee Abdullah said yesterday after visiting her husband.

She was responding to Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar’s call to Raja Petra to inform the authorities if the detainee could not stomach the food served at the camp. However, she said it would be good if the camp authorities could give her husband dates that did not have weevils.

Marina said that Raja Petra would be attending his sedition trial at the Sessions Court in Petaling Jaya tomorrow.

During her 45-minute visit, Marina Lee said she spoke to Raja Petra, who is under solitary confinement, over a telephone and could only see him through a glass screen. He is allowed out of his cell from 7am to 7pm but confined to the block where his cell is located and not allowed to mingle with other detainees, Marina said.

She added that she was not allowed to give him home-cooked food during the visit but could pass him three books per visit.

On what he had to say to his readers, Marina Lee said her husband urged his readers to keep supporting the website, adding that the website was now on autopilot.

-The Star Online