Wednesday, 24 Feb 2021 02:07 PM MYT
BY IDA LIM
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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24 — The High Court here today stayed the Malaysian government’s deportation of the remainder of the original 1,200 Myanmar nationals referred to in a lawsuit until the matter was decided.
Yesterday, High Court judge Datuk Seri Mariana Yahya granted a stay order to temporarily suspend the government’s plans to deport the 1,200 Myanmar citizens, as she was to hear the lawsuit this morning at 10am.
The Malaysian government had been planning to repatriate the 1,200 Myanmar citizens on three navy ships provided by the Myanmar military yesterday afternoon.