The Kuala Lumpur Immigration Department arrested 176 illegal immigrants, including 71 Bangladeshi nationals, during a raid in the Jalan Alor area of Bukit Bintang on Wednesday night, reports Malaysia’s national news agency Bernama.
A total of 214 illegal immigrants, including 123 Bangladeshis, have been arrested by Malaysia’s Johor Immigration Department during raids on workers’ settlements near Kampung Belokok and Jalan Lingkaran Dalam in Johor Baru.
In the darkness, a shape emerged among the Mediterranean waves -- over 30 men, huddled shoulder to shoulder in the hold of a fibreglass boat.
Malaysia has reportedly repatriated 2,530 undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers through its Migrant Repatriation Programme launched on March 1
A Human Rights Watch report has detailed the damning state of immigration detention centres in Malaysia that house thousands of refugees and asylum seekers, listing claims of human rights violations and abuse.
Malaysia begins its Migration Repatriation Programme (MRP) today, enabling undocumented migrant workers to be sent back to their home countries without facing prosecution.
The government yesterday brought back 144 irregular Bangladeshi migrants from north African country Libya.
Undocumented foreigners will be sent back to their home countries without facing further prosecution under the Migration Repatriation programme that commences March 1, said Malaysian Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.
38 migrants from Bangladesh arrived after their nine-metre boat was picked up off the coast by Italian authorities, Ansa said.
Immigration officers in Malaysia rounded up 252 undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers during a raid today, according to a report of Free Malaysia Today, an online news portal
Last night, a Malaysia airlines flight brought the 14-year-old Ratul Islam Fahim to Dhaka from Kuala Lumpur around 10:00pm
India's Agra police today arrested 28 Bangladesh citizens who were allegedly staying in a slum illegally.
The boy discovered in a cargo container in Malaysia's Port Klang on January 17 is from Cumilla, who went missing more than two months ago, a family from the district claimed today.
The boy found in a cargo container in Port Klang of Malaysia on January 17 calls himself Fahim and he could be Bangladeshi or Rohingya.
A Bangladeshi boy has been rescued from an empty container which reached the Port Klang of Malaysia on a cargo ship that left Chattogram Port six days ago.
Malaysia's immigration authorities have arrested 52 immigrants, including 16 Bangladeshis, for not having valid documents.
Over 230 undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers have been in the pipeline to return home from crisis-hit Lebanon, under a voluntary repatriation programme of the Bangladesh Embassy in Beirut.
About 16,000 Bangladeshi undocumented migrant workers have so far been regularised in the Maldives under a programme of the Maldivian economic development ministry, according to the Bangladesh High Commission in Malé.
