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The Star
PETALING JAYA: The Bar Council has called on the Government to revoke the imposition of whipping on illegal migrant workers.
Council chairman Yeo Yang Poh said most countries in the world had discarded whipping.
“Whipping is widely regarded as a cruel and barbaric form of punishment, which has been shown to produce long-term and harmful psychological effects,” he said in a statement here.
“For a nation that subscribes to humanitarian principles and aspires to be in the top quadrant of the modern world, there is no justification whatsoever for Malaysia to administer such merciless punishment on anyone, let alone those who have toiled in our country and whose only offence is the absence of proper status,” he said.
He said whipping should be stopped now.
On another matter, Yeo commended the Government for recognising the Rohingyas as refugees since late last year, as well as permitting them to work in Malaysia.
Besides that, he said, Home Minister Datuk Azmi Khalid had also announced that Rohingya children would be given education.
“The Government should be commended for taking these steps.
“They are in accord with international principles, as well as the Convention on the Rights of the Child,” he said.
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