Malaysia’s parliament has passed an anti-terrorism bill that reintroduces detention without trial, three years after it was revoked by Prime Minister Najib Razak.

Opposition members of parliament proposed several amendments to the legislation, under which individuals can be detained for up to two years with two-year extensions thereafter, but it was voted through unchanged early Tuesday morning, the Reuters news agency reported.

Malaysia last had detention without trial under the Internal Security Act, which was repealed in 2012 by Najib under his reform agenda.

Nurul Izzah Anwar, daughter of jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and a member of Malaysia’s parliament, told Al Jazeera opponents of the bill were not given enough time or room to debate the act.

“We asked the home minister, to establish a bipartisan committee to discuss the impact each provision would have before the act would go to vote but they rejected the idea,” she said.

On Sunday, Malaysian police arrested 17 people, including two who had recently returned from Syria. The men are accused of sympathising with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, but Anwar says the government has not been open about the threat the group pose.

“We have had no disclosures on the ISIL threat, no intelligence reports. Just a proclamation that ISIL is a threat. We need access to all information.”

Anwar warned that the law, like the Sedition Act used to detain more than a hundred people including journalists over the last two months, will be used to target political opponents of the government.

“The law gives wide powers to declare any organisation a terrorist threat. It’s very troubling as there’s no judicial review…without balancing civil liberties and security, the climate will worsen,” Anwar said.

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