Dar­ren Mitchell, the lawyer rep­re­sent­ing de­tainees at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre, is warn­ing the pub­lic that more “in­no­cent” peo­ple will be locked up if the State of Emer­gency con­tin­ues.

His com­ments came as 89 de­tainees at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre staged a hunger strike on Oc­to­ber 28 against what they de­scribed as “in­def­i­nite de­ten­tion with­out charge or ev­i­dence.”

Al­though the hunger strike is now over, the ac­tion has re­newed de­bate over the SoE De­ten­tion Reg­u­la­tions, which are be­ing used to hold cit­i­zens with­out tri­al.