49 Illegal Foreigners Sentenced to Three Years' Jail in Malaysia

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49 Illegal Foreigners Sentenced to Three Years' Jail in Malaysia

The Magistrate's Court in Klang, some 50 kilometers west of here, Wednesday sentenced 49 foreign nationals to three years' jail and 2,630 US dollars' fine for immigration offenses.

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The Magistrate's Court in Klang, some 50 kilometers west of here, Wednesday sentenced 49 foreign nationals to three years' jail and 2,630 US dollars' fine for immigration offenses.

Six of them, aged between 22 and 30, were also ordered to be given three strokes of the rotan under the Immigration Act 1959/63(Amended 2002).

The foreign nationals are 46 Indonesians, one Pakistani, one Bangladeshi and one Cambodian.

Eleven of them, including four women aged between 22 and 31, were rounded up by Immigration officers in the areas after the expiry of the government's amnesty program on July 31.

Under the amnesty program, illegal immigrants who wanted to leave the country would not be prosecuted. Some 380,000 took the government's offer and left.

Of the 49 foreign nationals prosecuted, 38 ironically were caught while trying to sneak into the country by sea near Port Klang on July 31.

In north state of Penang, the Magistrate's Court sentenced an Indonesia to one year's jail and one stroke of the rotan for staying illegally in the country.

From Aug. 1, with the enforcement of new amendments to the Immigration Act, illegal immigrants in the country could be whipped, and fined up to 10,000 ringgit (2631 US dollars) or jailed between six months and five years.

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