Minister: Govt finalising plans to move children in immigration custody

Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail has called on various stakeholders to assist government efforts in upholding children's rights in immigration detention and expediting their release from 19 depots nationwide.

At the policy level, Saifuddin said his ministry is in the final stages of drafting a cabinet paper with follow-up proposals to his initial plan of moving children currently in detention into external shelters.

"Yesterday (Friday), during the ministry's breaking fast function in Kedah, the prime minister had...