By Salai Za Uk Ling – 3 Jan 2006 – Kuala Lumpur: Chin refugee detainees who have been placed in Pakan Nanas facility in southern Malaysia are facing poor detention conditions and are vulnerable to sickness and diseases, according to reports from relatives who visited the site yesterday.
1 Jan 2007 – Kuala Lumpur: Two Chin youths were brutally stabbed to death last night by unknown attackers in Kuala Lumpur. The victims were reportedly killed at around 11:00 p.m. last night just a few hundred meters away from a crowded area where thousands of Malaysians were gathering for New Year celebrations.
By Salai Za Uk Ling – December 28, 2006 – Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian authorities yesterday deported 80 asylum seekers who…
By Salai Za Uk Ling – 24 Dec 2006 – Kuala Lumpur: Signs of festivities are everywhere as Chin refugee community in Malaysia prepares for festive celebrations. But hundreds of them will be spending this year’s Christmas in detention centers across Malaysia. More than 500 Chin refugees and asylum seekers are languishing in Malaysian jails and detention centers after being arrested for immigration offences. Detainees range from young single males to entire family members; to mothers and pregnant women to children as young as three years old.
By Tara Horn, 16 Dec 2006 – Kuala Lumpur: Several hundred people assembled in Kuala Lumpur today to observe the Karen New Year Day. The Malaysia Karen Organization put on the celebrations, which were held at the International Youth Center in Kuala Lumpur. This is the fifth year that the Malaysia Karen Organization has honored their national holiday in Malaysia. Hundreds of Karen living in exile in Malaysia attended the event.
By Salai Za Uk Ling
16 Dec 2006 – Kuala Lumpur: 43 Chin refugees and asylum seekers were among over one hundred ‘illegal migrants’ arrested by Malaysian immigration this morning at a construction worksite in Jahor Baru.
Chin Asylum Seeker Mother and Child Released
By Salai Za Uk Ling
16 Dec 2006 – Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian immigration authorities yesterday released Chin asylum seeker mother and child. Tial Can and her 3 year-old daughter Dawt Khun Tial had been in detention since July, just days after they arrived in Malaysia to seek asylum with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Kuala Lumpur. They are now back in their community with the assistance of Chin Refugee Committee.
By Tara Horn: 9 Dec 2006 – Kuala Lumpur: The Chin Refugee Committee was awarded the Suaram Human Rights Award on December 8, at the annual Suaram Tribute to Human Rights Defenders dinner in Kuala Lumpur. Suaram is a Malaysian non-governmental organization “committed to defending and campaigning for human rights in Malaysia and other parts of the world.” Suaram, or Suara Rakyat Malaysia, began in 1989 and is now the leading human rights organization in Malaysia.
22 October 2006 –
By Salai Za Uk Ling
Chinland Guardian Kuala Lumpur: More than 30 Chins are being held captive by Thai agents at the Thai-Malaysia border, two Chins who were freed after paying huge sums of money to their captors reported. The two, age 29 and 31, arrived in Kuala Lumpur yesterday morning along with 17 others after friends and relatives paid 2000 Malaysian ringits to their Thai captors.
