Malaysian Bar calls for inquest into Nigerian student's death in detention


  • Nation
  • Tuesday, 16 Jul 2019

PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Bar has called for an inquest into the death of a Nigerian doctorate student at an Immigration Department depot in Kuala Lumpur.

Thomas Orhions Ewansiha, 33, is believed to have died from seizure while asleep at the Immigration detention depot in Bukit Jalil on July 9.

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