Kuala Lampur, April 5 -- The Asian African Legal Consultative Organisation (AALCO) is protesting against the government's move to strip Datuk Sundra Rajoo Nadarajah, the former director of the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), of his diplomatic immunity and the charges against him.

AALCO secretary-general Prof Dr Kennedy Gastorn also said the group is disassociating itself from the charges, in a letter to Foreign Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah, de facto Law Minister Datuk Liew Vui Keong and, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief Datuk Seri Mohd Shukri Abdull.

"I am therefore protesting and disassociating AALCO from these charges as they, on the face of them, contravene the Host Country Agreement as stipulated...