Amnesty calls for halt to Rayhan's deportation

Amnesty International has sharply criticised the government's move to deport Md Rayhan Kabir, the Bangladeshi migrant worker in Malaysia who gave an interview critical of the government in the Al Jazeera documentary "Locked Up in Malaysia’s Lockdown".

"The Malaysian government is clearly using immigration law and threats of deportation to silence criticism of their mistreatment of undocumented migrants and refugees.

"It is shocking that...