Malaysia takes pride in sitting on the UN Human Rights Council, therefore it is at best bizarre and at worst disingenuous and harmful for the government to then frame the UN agency as “foreign interference”, said Amnesty International Malaysia.

Its executive director Katrina Maliamauv pointed out that the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has worked in the country for decades, supporting the government to ensure refugees were afforded some level of protection.

This is despite...