16.03.2025

Home minister can declare any place, including house, as prison

House arrest is already possible in Malaysia without any new legislation.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reforms) Azalina Othman Said said that, according to the Attorney-General’s Chambers, the Prisons Act empowers the home minister to declare any home, building, or place a “prison” for the purpose of incarceration.

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