Suhakam: Let UNHCR into Immigration holding centres to help asylum seekers
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  • 3 years ago
The government should allow the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) access to Immigration detention centres as thousands of asylum seekers are held there, says the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam).

Suhakam commissioner Jerald Joseph said that on Thursday (May 20), adding that the presence of asylum seekers contributed to the overcrowding of detention centres.

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