KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 23 -- The Malaysian government should allow the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to visit and check on the 1,200 people that Malaysia planned on deporting to Myanmar, rights group said, following a local court order to pause the deportation plans for one day.

In a joint statement by Amnesty International Malaysia and Asylum Access Malaysia, Amnesty International Malaysia's executive director Katrina Jorene Maliamauv welcomed the High Court's decision to temporarily stay the Malaysian government's planned deportation of the 1,200 individuals to Myanmar, pending the hearing of a judicial review in the High Court in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow.

She said that the 1,200 individuals include some holders of va...