Drop objections to citizenship for stateless children, Putrajaya told

The new Pakatan Harapan government has been urged to drop the previous BN administration's legal objections to citizenship for stateless children.

Lawyers Latheefa Koya and N Surendran said the case of two such children will be heard by the Federal Court this coming Monday.

"These two cases involve children who were born in Malaysia, and have lived in Malaysia all their lives.

"In the Lim Jen Shian case, the father of the child is a Malaysian citizen; whereas in the other case, the child is an orphan whose adoptive parents are both Malaysian citizens," they said in a statement today.

The duo argued that both children should be granted citizenship by virtue of Article 14(1) read together with the 2nd Schedule Part 1(a) of the Federal Constitution.

However, they said the Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) is still maintaining the objections raised by the previous BN government against granting the children Malaysian citizenship.

The two lawyers expressed surprise and disappointment at the AGC's stance. 

They pointed out that the new Harapan government had committed itself to “upholding the rights of all those stateless persons who are entitled and qualified to be citizens by virtue of the constitution”.

"The new government had even specifically included the promise to resolve statelessness in their election manifesto.

"The AGC should therefore not be objecting to the citizenship of the kids in these cases," Latheefa and Surendran said.

In the coalition’s manifesto, Harapan had pledged to reduce red tape involving the registration of children born to families living in remote areas. -Mkini

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