Hu­man rights ad­vo­cates are warn­ing that the State could face se­ri­ous con­se­quences if a de­tainee held un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) dies in cus­tody dur­ing the cur­rent State of Emer­gency, as con­cerns grow over the use of ex­tra­or­di­nary de­ten­tion pow­ers.

Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed has ar­gued that his con­tin­ued de­ten­tion is al­ready af­fect­ing his health.

“The con­di­tions of de­ten­tion have pre­vent­ed him from re­ceiv­ing the long-stand­ing med­ical care which he had been pre­scribed and has been re­ceiv­ing pri­or to de­ten­tion and which he re­quires, with the re­sult that there is a re­al pos­si­bil­i­ty of long-term per­ma­nent dam­age to his health and a re­al risk to his life,” his first ap­pli­ca­tion had stat­ed which ex­plained that Hadeed suf­fers from “se­ri­ous and in some re­spects life-threat­en­ing med­ical con­di­tions” that can­not be ad­e­quate­ly man­aged while he re­mains in cus­tody.