PETALING JAYA: The reported arrest of 171 Bangladeshi workers in Johor while marching to a police station to make a report is a breach of anti-trafficking laws, says Lawyers for Liberty (LFL).
"Despite acknowledgement by the police that the migrants entered the country legally and were trying to lodge a police report, it was these migrants who were arrested to be investigated, allegedly for overstaying," LFL director Zaid Malek said in a statement on Wednesday (Dec 27).
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