Suhakam: Release unconvicted detainees of petty crimes, refugees from prisons

UPDATED 4.45PM | The Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) has urged the government to consider releasing those remanded for petty and non-violent crimes and drug addiction in order to reduce the risk of further Covid-19 outbreaks in overcrowded prisons.

Commissioner Jerald Joseph (photo, above) also felt that inmates remanded for petty socio-economic crimes and convicted elderly inmates with chronic diseases should also be released...