KUALA LUMPUR: For the last 11 years, Wong Kueng Hui (pic), a stateless man, lived in fear of being arrested by the authorities, until the Kuala Lumpur High Court granted him a Malaysian citizenship yesterday. Both his parents died when he was a teenager and he was looked after by a close family friend in Sabah. Yesterday, Justice Datuk Nordin Hassan granted him citizenship and ordered the National Registration Department (NRD) to issue an identity card. His lawyer, Haijan Omar, said this is the first time the court has granted citizenship to a stateless person such as Wong. “Other stateless children have different circumstances – they were adopted and their adoptive parents wanted them to get citizenship.

Source: The Star October 21, 2019 23:03 UTC