KUALA LUMPUR: The Bar Council is to convene an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on 20 Sept at Wisma MCA to discuss Saturday's (13 Sept) detention under the Internal Security Act (ISA) of blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin, Seputeh Member of Parliament Teresa Kok and Sin Chew Daily reporter Tan Hoon Cheng.

Its president, Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan, said Saturday the meeting would also discuss the government's issue of show-cause letters to three newspapers -- The Sun, Sin Chew Daily and Suara Keadilan -- over reports they had purportedly carried contrary to guidelines.

She said the Bar Council has set up a legal team comprising 25 state bar chairs and state representatives around Malaysia, headed by council member Rajpal Singh, to be on hand to assist in providing legal aid to the detainees.

"For the moment, our immediate response is to aid people in detention. That is our first priority. Then, after the meeting on Saturday, if there is any plan or suggestion we will look into that," she told a news conference at the Bar Council premises, here.

She said the use of the ISA had created far more uneasiness and unhappiness amongst right-thinking people in Malaysia. (Bernama)