Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is providing assistance in accordance with its Consular Services Charter to a number of its citizens in Kuala Lumpur.

In an email to Malaysiakini, a DFAT spokesperson was responding to queries on the Australian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur's response to the reported probe on five Al Jazeera staff, in connection with the network's "101 East" programme which highlighted alleged mistreatment of undocumented migrants by the Malaysian authorities during the movement control order...