Mas Selamat: Will be back at Whitley centre

May 8, 2009

Capture of Mas Selamat

Will be back at Whitley centre

		Mas Selamat Kastari will be detained again at the Whitley Road detention centre when he is brought back to Singapore after the Malaysian authorities have completed their interrogation. --ST PHOTO: FRANCIS ONG

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ESCAPED Mas Selamat Kastari, who has been caught in Johor Baru, will be detained again at the Whitley Road detention centre when he is brought back to Singapore after the Malaysian authorities have completed their interrogation.

Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng said the detention centre, where the terror leader of the Singapore Jemaah Islamiah network escaped from, 'is today very different from the one on Feb 27, 2008' - the day Mas Selamat escaped.

'Many security measures have been put in place and that is the place we are going to put him,' Mr Wong, who is Home Affairs Minister, told a media conference on Friday morning, after news broke that the JI terrorist has been arrested.

Mr Wong said from the brief that was given to Singapore, Mas Selamat swam across the Straits of Johor with an 'improvised flotation device.'

'We don't know all the details and until he's brought back to Singapore and ISD interview him, we don't have much information on that,' he said.

After Mas Selamat's escape, a Committee of Enquiry was set up to look into the incident, highlight what went wrong and come up with recommendations to boost security especially at the Whitley Road Detention Centre.

The committee came up with 10 suggestions on how to rectify weaknesses there.

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