Bar backs RCI on 'house of horror', says may be tip of iceberg

The Malaysian Bar, which expressed horror over the revelations following the police raids on 20 welfare homes in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan, has supported the call for the establishment of a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into the matter.

Its president Mohamad Ezri Abdul Wahab was responding to Suhakam's Children's Commissioner Dr Farah Nini Dusuki, who mooted the RCI, stating that the crime and exploitation against children committed under the guise of religion is grotesquely shocking.

“We urge the government to...