3 arrested under ISA for involvement in terrorism-related activities
Posted: 01 March 2012 2017 hrs
SINGAPORE: Three individuals have been arrested under the Internal Security Act for their involvement in terrorism-related activities.
Two have been issued with detention orders while the the third is still being investigated.
The Ministry of Home Affairs said the arrests took place between January and February this year.
The two issued with detention orders are Sahrudin Mohamed Sapian and Mohamed Rafee Abdul Rahman.
Both are members of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist organisation who had fled Singapore in December 2001.
They remained in hiding overseas and were recently arrested with the cooperation of foreign counterparts.
Sahrudin, a pioneer member of the Singapore JI, had undergone terrorist training in Afghanistan in 2000.
He was a senior member of the Singapore JI who not only recruited new members into the organisation but had also conducted reconnaissance of potential targets of attack in Singapore for the JI.
The Internal Security Department had tracked his location overseas and with the assistance of the relevant foreign counterpart, Sahrudin was arrested in January 2012 and subsequently deported to Singapore.
Rafee was a JI member who had undergone terrorist training in Afghanistan in 2000.
He had facilitated regional JI operations by providing logistical support to the network.
Additionally, he had also enabled local and foreign JI leaders to hold JI gatherings in Singapore by offering his residence as a venue for those sessions.
Rafee was arrested overseas and deported to Singapore in January 2012.
Rafee's brother Abd Rahim Abdul Rahman was a senior member of the Singapore JI.
He was arrested overseas and deported to Singapore in February 2012.
He has been arrested under the ISA and is currently under investigation.
The MHA said one JI detainee has been released.
Jumari Kamdi, a Singaporean who was a JI member in a regional country, was first detained under the ISA in Jan 2011.
He has been cooperative with investigations and it has been assessed that he no longer poses a security threat that requires further preventive detention.
As such, he was released on a Suspension Direction last month.
MHA also said restriction orders on five men have lapsed.
They are Jasmani Bakran, Mohamad Ashikin Mohamad Yusof, Omar Abdul Karim, Zainodin Ismail and Anis Mohamad Mansor.
All five men had been cooperative and responsive to rehabilitation efforts.
- CNA/fa
