TAIPING: Family members and friends of Internal Security Act (ISA) detainees dispersed peacefully after staging a candlelight vigil outside the Kamunting detention camp near here.

Police allowed the large group to remain for 15 minutes under the watch of Federal Reserve Unit police personnel during the gathering organised by the Abolish ISA Movement at 8.30pm yesterday.

Perak senior executive councillor Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham was present to monitor the situation.

Ngeh, who is also state DAP chairman, said the state government’s stand was that every person had a universal right to a fair trial in a court of law, as opposed to unlawful detention.