Stateless are not ‘migrants and others’, says Lawyers for Liberty


PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail should stop defending the proposed amendments to citizenship laws “as it callously ignores the plight of the stateless”, says Lawyers for Liberty (LFL).

"Framing it as a security issue due to the country purportedly facing 'problems involving migrants and others’ shows a total lack of understanding by the Home Minister, which is a deliberate misrepresentation of issue,” said LFL director Zaid Malek

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