Youth spends nearly four years in Immigration lock-up due to technical flaw on birth cert

Mohamad Tarudi Bahari(right) and R. Ramachandran (left) held a press conference. -Ronnie Chin/The Star

GOPENG: A 26-year-old man has entered his fourth year at the Langkap Immigration Detention Centre despite being born in Malaysia and having a birth certificate.

Mohd Farid Abdullah, who was born a Hindu and converted to become a Muslim when he was 12, was first arrested in September 2019 during an operation in Klebang when he failed to show his MyKad.