Malaysia’s Rohingya face new threat of removal as biometric documentation begins

Rohingya migrants – including children – held in detention centres across Malaysia are at risk of forced removal, rights advocates warn, as the government carries out a biometric registration scheme to determine who can stay and who will be deported. Tens of thousands of Rohingya, a Muslim minority from Myanmar’s Rakhine State described by the United Nations as among the world’s most persecuted people, have sought sanctuary in Malaysia since the 1990s. As Malaysia does not formally recognise...