CHAPTER 2 - REPORT OF THE COMPLAINTS AND INQUIRIES WORKING GROUP
The nature of complaints varied at each location:
•
In the Peninsula, the complaints were related mainly to detention under the Emergency (Public
Order and Prevention of Crime) Ordinance 1969 (64 cases) and police inaction (57 cases).
•
In Sabah, the majority of grievances were about land matters (92 cases) and citizenship issues
(56 cases).
•
In Sarawak, most of the complaints were about alleged infringement of the indigenous peoples’
customary rights to land (27 cases).
400
350
341
300
No. of Cases
250
200
200
150
Human Rights Cases
191
Resolved
Pending
137
133
100
58
50
40
20
20
0
Peninsula
Sabah
Sarawak
Figure 2: Resolved and Pending Cases
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