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‘Grant UNHCR access to detention centres’ 25 Feb 2021 / 10:58 H.
PETALING JAYA: It is important for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) be granted access to all detention centres in determining asylum-seekers and refugees, said activists.
In making the call, Amnesty International Malaysia (AIM) and Asylum Access Malaysia (AAM) said this will prevent individuals from being deported.
They were referring to 1,086 individuals sent back to their homeland on Myanmar navy ships on Tuesday.
The individuals were part of the 1,200 people which AIM and AAM had filed a joint judicial review on Tuesday.
“We know people on the (deported) list are under asylum,” AIM executive director Katrina Jorene Maliamauv said in a virtual news conference yesterday.
PETALING JAYA: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and civil society organisations are ready to help to reach out to refugees and undocumented migrants for Covid-19 vaccination.
UNHCR associate public health officer Dr Susheela Balasundaram said they welcomed the announcement that all foreign citizens would have access to the Covid-19 vaccines at no cost under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme.
“UNHCR stands ready to continue providing support to the government of Malaysia in its Covid-19 response, including in the Immunisation Programme.
“Where the Malaysian government requires our support, UNHCR is ready to assist in mobilising and reaching out to the refugee and asylum-seeking communities, including through relevant communications efforts and community engagement, and in line with the Ministry of Health vaccine preparedness communications plan.
Malaysia has deported 1,086 Myanmar nationals, despite a court order temporarily halting the repatriation amid concerns the group could be at risk if they are returned to military-ruled Myanmar.
Kairul Dzaimee Daud, director-general of Malaysia’s immigration department, said on Tuesday the group had agreed to return voluntarily and were sent back on three ships belonging to Myanmar’s navy.
The move came hours after the Kuala Lumpur High Court granted an interim stay barring the removal of some 1,200 people until 10am (02:00 GMT) on Wednesday.
The order was issued in response to a request for a judicial review from Amnesty International and Asylum Access, who said the lives of the people in the group would be at risk and that more than a dozen of the detainees were children with at least one parent in Malaysia.
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