PETALING JAYA: Malaysia has never deported UNHCR cardholders despite not being a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, says home minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.
“No UNHCR cardholders had been deported. Cardholders would be released to UNHCR on humanitarian grounds,” he said in a written reply in Parliament today.Saifuddin said refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia were managed in accordance with the National Security Council’s directives.
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He said the department conducted 10,173 operations in 2023, which resulted in the arrest of 27,739 undocumented migrants from various countries.The department had conducted 1,966 operations this year as of Feb 15, during which it arrested 6,306 undocumented migrants.
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