“They can say anything they like. But we have enough grounds. Well, sometimes people won’t admit to what they have done,” Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar told a press conference here today.
“No guilty person would admit they are guilty.”
Aishah, a 29-year-old former Universiti Malaya student, was arrested the first time in March last year under Section 130JB of the Penal Code and Sosma for the possession of 12 books allegedly linked to terrorism.
A month later, Aishah was charged in the High Court in Kuala Lumpur. The former Master’s in Usuluddin (Islamic Studies) student pleaded not guilty and said she was using the books for research for her master’s degree.
When asked about Aishah’s plea of innocence, Khalid said the police did not purposely persecute her.
“We have enough reasons to arrest her,” he added.
“So don’t only now say ‘I didn’t do it, I’m not involved’. We follow the laws in our country. We don’t do something out of our jurisdiction.”
The High Court had last year acquitted and released her, but on the same day, Aishah, the first of five siblings, was re-arrested under the Prevention of Crime Act 1959 (Poca) and detained for another 60 days.
Upon her release, she was placed under house arrest. Last Monday, she was again arrested under Sosma and is currently detained at Kajang prison.
Yesterday her father, Atam Jusoh, came to Parliament to hand over a memorandum to the home ministry, calling for Aishah’s release.