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Malaysia's Home Ministry will conduct extended consultations with stakeholders before reintroducing amendments to the Prisons Act designed to safeguard prison officers performing duties lawfully, clarifying misconceptions about legal immunity.
Suhakam's 2024 annual report documents serious abuses within Malaysia's detention system, including assaults on female inmates and degrading body searches, revealing systematic gaps in oversight and accountability mechanisms.
Malaysia's Health Ministry has constituted a special investigative committee to examine alleged professional misconduct by medical officers connected to the Taiping Prison disturbance that occurred in January of the previous year.