KUCHING: Wisma Putra and the Malaysian Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, are now in talks with Cambodian officials to seek the release of 47 Malaysians, including those from Sarawak, who are detained in the Banteay Meanchey Prison, a Foreign Ministry official said.
“It (release of the Malaysian detainees) has to be done according to the legal procedures of the country concerned,” said Deddy Faisal Ahmad Salleh, the director of the Sarawak regional office of the Foreign Ministry.
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