Ramadan is Disobeyed in Malaysia

Ramadan is a holy month of Muslim around the world. But inside prison this month is not respected by Malaysian Government. They have no any special arrangements for fasting prisoner. They provide very poor food to the prisoners in the prison and detention center.

They provide food two times daily one is given at 2 pm and another at 11 pm at night. Which is not suitable for fasting people. Fasting people have to eat cold food. Food quality is also very bad. They do not provide any special or extra food for fasting prisoner.

I saw in the Lenggeng immigration camp until October and November 2009 they give water on a broken Pepsi bottle. They provide a rotten dry fish. After eating that fish most of the prisoner feel gastric problem.

Another big problem in the immigration camp is drinking water. They have no any arrangements of pure drinking water in the camp. Prisoner have to drink direct tap water. Though sometimes they attached filter in the pipe but regularly they do not change or clean the filter. So prisoner are facing of different kinds of water based diseases like cholera, disentry etc.

Though there is a mosque inside Sungaibulu prison but prisoner are not allowed to perform tarabi praying in the mosque. Management in the prison is also very careless. They do not respect fasting people in the prison. They keep fasting and non fasting people in a same room where fasting people feel very uneasy.

Though Malaysia claims that it is a Muslim country but I did not see any Muslim culture among the prison authority. I think Malaysia should learn newly how to respect Muslim's rules and law. Overall they should learn how to respect human rights.