Claim

Claim 983

Mahathir removed five high court judges and introduced a provision forbidding judicial review of security detentions.

Published 2026-09-26. Last reviewed 2026-09-26. 1 source.

Statement: Mahathir removed five high court judges and introduced a provision forbidding judicial review of security detentions.
Field: status
Value: Judges removed, judicial review barred
About: incident 1987-malaysia-printing-act-bars-court-review
Source: Detained Without Trial: Abuse of Internal Security Act Detainees in Malaysia
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Method: outlet report
Checked: 2026-09-26
Confidence: medium
Status: current
Source date: 2005-09-26

Quotation from the source

Mahathir responded by removing five high court judges, including then-Chief Justice Tun Salleh Abbas, and introduced section 8B of the ISA, which forbids judicial review of ISA detentions