KUCHING: Sarawak Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) adviser Datuk Seri Hafsah Harun called on state and central government leaders to visit family members of the 47 Malaysians detained in Cambodia, to help ease their sorrows.
She said she was making arrangements for Deputy Prime Minister Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail to meet the victims’ families to give them moral support.
“I also urge Malaysians not to make speculations and spread inaccurate information over the issue on social media, as it might jeopardise the resumption of negotiations between the Malaysian government and the Cambodian government in bringing home all the detainees.
“Our main objective is to ensure that all 47 detainees return home safely,” she said in a statement today.
In a press conference in Kuching on Thursday, Julau MP, Larry Sng Wei Shien revealed that 47 Malaysians aged 18 to 21, believed to be human trafficking victims, were being detained in a prison in the country.
Sng added that most of the detainees were men, 44 were Sarawakians while the rest were from Peninsular Malaysia.
On the same day the Foreign Ministry in a statement confirmed the detention of 47 Malaysians in Poi Pet, Cambodia since Dec 11 last year but notification of the arrest was only conveyed to them by Bantey Meanchey police on Dec 28.
According to the statement, they were arrested on suspicion of being involved in illegal online gambling activities. – Bernama
