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.
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Rights Groups Attack Malaysia’s ‘Abhorrent’ Deportation Plan
Shortly after its coup d’etat, Myanmar’s military junta offered to help Malaysian authorities deport some 1,200 people.
February 19, 2021
A Malaysian flag hangs in the home of refugees from Myanmar, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Credit: Flickr/Overseas Development Institute
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Human rights groups have excoriated the Malaysian government’s planned deportation of 1,200 people back to Myanmar next week, as the latter’s military government comes under increasing international pressure following the coup of February 1.
On February 12, the government of Malaysia accepted an offer by the army to send three navy ships to repatriate 1,200 Myanmar nationals held in Malaysian immigration detention centers.