Kuala Lumpur, Feb 23 (UNI) A Malaysian court stayed the planned deportation of 1,200 Myanmar nationals, scheduled to be sent back to Myanmar on Tuesday.
The Court intervention came after Amnesty International Malaysia and Asylum Access Malaysia jointly filed for a judicial review in the KL High court, saying that their lives would be in danger, if they were deported to Myanmar, where the Army had staged a coup in the first week of this month against the State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar president Win Myint, citing 'election fraud in last year's elections.
The group had to be taken back on Tuesday to Myanmar by the Myanmar's Navy from Malaysia’s west coast.