Human rights group Suaram has urged Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's intervention to bring back a Malaysian who is serving the seventh year of a 25-year prison sentence in Cambodia for drug trafficking.

“Suaram urges the prime minister to review Hemakavin Karthigesu's case and to take steps to ensure that Hemakavin is brought home.

"One step that we hope to see the prime minister implement is to raise this issue with the Cambodian government and to discuss possible solutions with it during his official visit to Cambodia...