PETALING JAYA: Human Rights Watch (HRW) was unable to substantiate the claims made in its report of abuse and torture at immigration detention centres when testifying before a parliamentary committee last week, says home minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.
PETALING JAYA: Human Rights Watch was unable to substantiate the claims made in its report of abuse and torture at immigration detention centres when testifying before a parliamentary committee last week, says home minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.
“They could not present an iota of evidence. But yet they went on to lecture the whole world ,” he said in response to an oral question from Lim Guan Eng . Based on interviews with 43 former detainees, the report alleged appalling living conditions, a lack of medical care, and instances of torture and abuse, allegedly resulting in “many” deaths.The report claimed that women and children were also subject to abuse and neglect, with over 1,400 children detained, two-thirds of whom were unaccompanied or separated from their families and often detained with unrelated adults.
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