Malaysia S Human Trafficking Court Nets Few Scalps In First Year




A Malaysian court that promised justice for victims of human trafficking made eight convictions in its inaugural year despite the launch of hundreds of investigations in recent years, data obtained exclusively by the Thomson Reuters Foundation revealed
Malaysia is a magnet for traffickers due to its heavy reliance on foreign workers, many lured from nearby Indonesia and Bangladesh with promises of honest work but ending up trapped in unpaid labour, debt and facing exploitation
Malaysia is home to an estimated 212,000 of about 40 million people trapped in slavery worldwide, according to the Global Slavery Index by human rights group Walk Free Foundation, and the government has vowed to act and amend labour laws
Yet Malaysia only secured 140 human trafficking convictions between 2014 and 2018, despite launching more than 1,600 investigations and identifying almost 3,000 victims, according to the US Trafficking in Persons reports

Seeking to boost these numbers, a special trafficking court was launched in March 2018 - in a bid to speed up the pace of justice and raise public awareness
But official figures obtained exclusively from the court’s registrar office showed that only 26 cases were cleared in the court’s first 15 months - with eight resulting in a conviction
“What happened to all the promises?” asked Aegile Fernandez, an anti-trafficking campaigner and director at the Kuala Lumpur-based migrant rights group Tenaganita
A judiciary spokeswoman declined to provide further details of the cases. It was not clear what punishments were meted out. De Facto Law minister Liew Vui Keong and the Attorney-General’s Chambers, which oversees prosecutions, didn't respond to questions about the court’s effectiveness or future plans. Liew’s press officer said justice takes time to obtain. “Do you know when the court was set up? Do you want me to enlighten you how long a trial can go on?” Samantha Chong said in a text message to Reuters. Comparatively, a court on sexual crimes against children set up in mid-2017 saw 367 cases cleared in the first year, the court website showed, without giving conviction numbers. War declaredThe US State Department’s 2019 Trafficking in Persons report put Malaysia in its penultimate rank - out of four categories - for measures undertaken to fight human trafficking
A downgrade to the lowest ranking can trigger US sanctions which Washington imposed on 21 nations in this year’s report
The trafficking court was initially welcomed by activists concerned that most victims toiling in factories, selling sex or working as domestic staff, were foreign nationals reluctant to fight their case due to the time it takes and lack of support
Malaysia’s low conviction record highlights gaps in its anti-trafficking law since an offence can only be proven if there was physical coercion, said human rights lawyer Edmund Bon from AmerBON Advocates, who is lobbying to change the law
Due to the legal constraints, workers forced into excessive overtime or coerced to relinquish their passports are often treated as immigration or industrial dispute cases, and not heard in the special court, Bon added
“That has to be amended because trafficking can be by way of emotional duress, it can be psychological,” said Bon, formerly a government-appointed human rights envoy
“There are a lot of people who get off prosecution because of the definition.”Malaysia relies on about two million registered migrant workers for jobs on plantations, in factories or construction
But many others work without permits leaving them at the mercy of human traffickers to whom they owe money for transport to Malaysia where they were promised jobs
Indonesia and Cambodia have in the past temporarily banned their citizens from going to work in Malaysia after cases of abuse surfaced but those bans have been lifted
“There are a lot of cases and it’s a big crime in Malaysia, but the very fact that we don’t identify these cases as trafficking is why we see a very low conviction rate,” said Fernandez
“We are asking: Why?” - Reuters

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