The wife of Pakistani investigative journalist Syed Fawad Ali Shah who was deported to his home country has filed a habeas corpus application on behalf of her husband at the Kuala Lumpur High Court last Friday.

According to her lawyer S Kartigesan, the woman only known as Syeda, also wanted the court to declare that the police and Immigration Department acted wrongly and violated the law in deporting the journalist last August.

"She applied for a habeas corpus to direct the government of Malaysia to produce Syed Fawad to the court within 24 hours of being ordered...