By Syndicated Content
By Rozanna Latiff and Ebrahim Harris
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Zafar Ahmad Abdul Ghani, a Rohingya Muslim refugee and activist who fled persecution and ethnic strife in Myanmar, has called Malaysia home for nearly three decades.
Now, it s more like a prison.
Zafar, 51, has not left his home on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur for nearly a year, after misinformation spread online that he had demanded Malaysian citizenship, triggering a wave of hate speech and death threats against him and his family. I m still scared. For a year, I ve not set foot outside. I ve not seen the earth outside, said the father of three.
Death threats, hate speech turn Rohingya activist s Malaysia home into a prison
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