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Amnesty condemns Malaysia for detaining Rohingya asylum seekers
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Myanmar Now
Rights group Amnesty International voiced concern on Tuesday after Malaysian police detained more than 100 Rohingya asylum seekers at a UN facility in Kuala Lumpur.
“Malaysia cannot build a credible refugee protection system while simultaneously treating refugees as people to be rounded up, detained, and removed,” Amnesty International’s Malaysia branch said.
“Refugees and asylum seekers should be treated with dignity and in accordance with their human rights, as people who need protection,” it added.
Malaysia currently hosts more than 215,000 refugees and asylum seekers registered with UNHCR.
Despite sheltering one of Southeast Asia’s biggest refugee populations, Malaysia has not signed the 1951 Refugee Convention and does not formally recognise refugee status.