Malaysia probes disappearance of Myanmar democracy activist and her family

Human Rights Watch this week said Thuzar Maung, 46, her husband and three children, were feared abducted"in a planned operation" on July 4, citing witnesses and CCTV footage at the activist's home in the Malaysian state of Selangor.

Police have opened a missing persons inquiry after receiving a report on the family's disappearance, Selangor police chief Hussein Omar Khan told Reuters. Malaysia has been an outspoken critic of violence in Myanmar after the military ousted a democratically elected government in February 2021. But it has also been criticised by rights groups for deporting thousands of Myanmar nationals, including military defectors.

Thuzar Maung heads the Myanmar Muslim Refugee Community and has over 93,000 followers on her Facebook page, where she frequently posts criticism of alleged abuses by Myanmar's junta.CCTV footage showed a car entering the gated community where her family lived on July 4, HRW said. The driver told security guards they were police, but authorities later identified the license plate of the car as fake, according to HRW.

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