PETALING JAYA: Two members of a special Dewan Rakyat select committee on human rights are urging regular reviews of entry bans into Sabah and Sarawak, after a man’s passport renewal was blocked for years due to an administrative error.
Pakatan Harapan MPs William Leong (Selayang) and Khoo Poay Tiong (Kota Melaka) made the call after the immigration department acknowledged last month that its Sarawak branch had wrongly barred technical writer Hafiz Hamid from travelling in 2018.
The department said an officer had mistakenly keyed in the restriction code for a federal warning notice — which blocks passport renewals and overseas travel — instead of one applying only to Sarawak.