KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 — Refugees, immigrants and those of particular races or ethnicities were identified by local human rights experts to be more at risk of being subject to torture or ill-treatment in Malaysia in 2022, the latest edition of an international human rights tracker released yesterday said.
But Michaelle Phoenix Yeo, HRMI’s East and South-east Asia Lead, said a significant number of people in Malaysia “are not safe from various violations including torture and ill-treatment, and arbitrary arrest”. “Refugees, mainly those of Indian and Indigenous descent are the biggest demographic affected,” HRMI said of one of the points stated by the respondents.
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