‘Grant UNHCR access to detention centres’ 25 Feb 2021 / 10:58 H. PETALING JAYA: It is important for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) be granted access to all detention centres in determining asylum-seekers and refugees, said activists. In making the call, Amnesty International Malaysia (AIM) and Asylum Access Malaysia (AAM) said this will prevent individuals from being deported. They were referring to 1,086 individuals sent back to their homeland on Myanmar navy ships on Tuesday. The individuals were part of the 1,200 people which AIM and AAM had filed a joint judicial review on Tuesday. “We know people on the (deported) list are under asylum,” AIM executive director Katrina Jorene Maliamauv said in a virtual news conference yesterday.