In 2005, the powers of Rela, a civilian volunteer corps backed by the government, were increased, giving them the right to stop, question and arrest anyone reasonably ...
On 9 November 2007 Sajad Hussain Wani was released after being held illegally by immigration authorities. During his detention he was beaten and burnt with cigarettes ...
Sajad Hussain Wani, a Pakistan national studying in Malaysia, has been detained illegally for almost one month, and has been tortured by immigration authorities ...
On the morning of 5 August, security forces personnel, aided by approximately 100 civilian volunteers, raided the communities of Selayang and Gombak, near the capital ...
Ayu, a male-to-female transsexual, was seriously beaten by state religious officials who detained her while she was talking to friends at the Old Melaka bus station ...
On the occasion of the UN Anti-Drugs Day on 26 June, the Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN), of which Amnesty International is a member, expressed in a statement ...
Approximately 217 people, including refugees and asylum-seekers, were detained on 25 June in a raid on the Chin Refugee Centre in the capital, Kuala Lumpur. They ...
This document is the executive summary of ASA 33/036/2006 in which Amnesty International expresses its concern that, in its pursuit of the US-led "war on terror ...