KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 — Several top lawyers and activists have today urged the government to drop proposed amendments to the Constitution, which they call “cruel” and would...
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 — Several top lawyers and activists have today urged the government to drop proposed amendments to the Constitution, which they call “cruel” and would create a vast new class of stateless persons.
It was co-signed by former Bar Council president Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan, former Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission chief Latheefa Koya, child activist Datuk Hartini Zainudin, and Development of Human Resources in Rural Areas’s director for social protection Maalini Ramalo. The quartet noted that the original 1957 Constitution granted citizenship to anyone born on Malaysian soil under the principle of “jus soli.” An amendment was then introduced in 1962 requiring that at least one parent must be a citizen to confer citizenship on a child.
“It will undo the Federal Court’s reasoned and progressive decision to protect foundlings from statelessness. These are not the only amendments that are being proposed; the right to citizenship of permanent residents is also to be removed, making children of those who permanently reside here now potentially stateless as well,” they said.
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