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UNHCR takes over Rohingya detainees

ALOR STAR: Kedah Immigration Department have released 102 Rohingya detainees from its detention depot in Belantik, Sik yesterday.

It's director Zuhair Jamaludin said all of them had been detained for two years for entering the country without proper travel documents.

Zubair said the comprise of 86 men, eight women and eight children aged between one and 51 years.

He added that all of the Rohingya people, who had fled their country Myanmar, have been handed over to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).

"There are remaining 386 of them, which include children are still detained at the Belantik Immigration depot for similar offences and they are expected to be released to UNHCR soon.

Translated from Harian Metro

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