Home Minister: Prisons Act amendments aim to protect prison officers, not grant them immunity
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PUTRAJAYA, July 27 — Amending the Prisons Act 1995 aims only protect prison officers exercising their duties within their stipulated limits, and not to grant them legal immunity,...
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Saifuddin Nasution said the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) is still free to make its recommendations and stressed that the Home Ministry will not defend any officers caught flouting the rules.
“However, we have to be fair when civil servants, including Prisons Department officers, face legal action even after performing their duties responsibly,” he said at the Home Ministry’s monthly assembly.
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