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Lawyers’ group calls out Hannah Yeoh for ‘misleading’ remarks about citizenship Bill, urges govt to include existing children born abroad to Malaysian mums
The group’s director Zaid Malek revived the issue after accusing Youth and Sports Minister Hannah Yeoh of downplaying the controversies surrounding the Bill that seeks to enable automatic citizenship for children born overseas to Malaysian mothers — a constitutional right that was previously reserved for Malaysian fathers.
“Yeoh’s comments on the controversial citizenship Bill is grossly misleading, dishonest and completely ignores the serious concerns about the Bill raised by civil society, human rights lawyers, the Bar Council, Suhakam, prominent individuals and even some PH MPs,” he said in a statement.
“Firstly, the citizenship Bill failed to be debated and passed by parliament in the recent session, despite all the promises made by the unity government leaders that the plight of the Malaysian mothers would be resolved.“Secondly, the thousands upon thousands of stateless children born overseas to Malaysian mothers will receive no benefit whatsoever from this Bill, contrary to what was claimed by Hannah Yeoh.
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