{"id":17796,"date":"2020-05-02T21:06:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T12:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/may\/02\/malaysia-cites-covid-19-for-rounding-up-hundreds-of-migrants"},"modified":"2020-05-02T21:06:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T12:06:30","slug":"malaysia-cites-covid-19-for-rounding-up-hundreds-of-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17796","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia cites Covid-19 for rounding up hundreds of migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In move condemned by UN, refugees including Rohingya detained amid rise in xenophobia <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Malaysian authorities have rounded up and detained hundreds of undocumented migrants, including Rohingya refugees, as part of efforts to contain coronavirus, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said 586 undocumented migrants were arrested in a raid in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, on Friday. Armed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/APRRN_\/status\/1256140805921619969\">police walked people through the city<\/a> in a single file to a detention building, according to activists. The UN said the move could push vulnerable groups into hiding and prevent them from seeking treatment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/may\/02\/malaysia-cites-covid-19-for-rounding-up-hundreds-of-migrants\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In move condemned by UN, refugees including Rohingya detained amid rise in xenophobia Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage Malaysian authorities have rounded up and detained hundreds of undocumented migrants, including Rohingya &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,59,53,70,491,494,85,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-malaysia","category-migration","category-refugees","category-rohingya","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17797,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17796\/revisions\/17797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}