Wednesday, 24 Feb 2021 12:35 PM MYT
BY SOO WERN JUN
Yesterday, the Immigration Department announced that it deported 1,086 Myanmar citizens despite a High Court’s order to temporarily suspend any efforts to do so. Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24 Human Rights Watch has called on the Malaysian government to initiate an investigation into the deportation of the 1,086 Myanmar nationals by the Immigration Department in defiance of a court order.
The international advocacy group said this was necessary as the deportation has allegedly put the Myanmar nationals’ lives at risk.
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.