Earlier this month, the Cambodian embassy worked with Malaysian authorities to get the release of 18 Cambodians from Bukit Jalil prison.

All 18 were jailed for allegedly lacking the proper work permits and all had been sent to Malaysia by informal brokers, many of whom abandoned them once they arrived.

The workers were being held in Bukit Jalil prison in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur and the Foreign Ministry asked the Cambodian ambassador to Malaysia to secure their release once they were notified of their arrest and detention.
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Malaysia Abuse Claims Drive Agency to Call for Urgent Fixes

Following a “surprise” visit last Monday to the Juru detention center in Penang state, the nominally independent Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC) told Malaysian media outlets on Friday that it found no evidence of physical abuse at the center. However, it found that some security cameras at the prison had not been working since 2014 and said conditions at the center required “urgent attention.”

The inspection came in response to claims made by two Cambodian maids who were detained at the center upon returning to Cambodia. In an interview with The Cambodia Daily, one of the maids said detainees were often hit and kicked by guards at the center and that fellow inmates died there—possibly from their injuries.

The EAIC chairman Yaacob Md Sam said that the only deaths at the center over the past year were due to disease, and said there was no evidence of physical abuse.

“Based on our investigations, claims that five Cambodian women and two Vietnamese women were hurt due to the excessive use of force by immigration officers at the Juru depot have been found to be baseless,” Mr. Yaacob said, according to the Free Malaysia Today news website.
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