Asylum Access Global (Asylum) and Amnesty International Malaysia (Amnesty) want the government to provide details of the Myanmar detainees within seven days in the event the High Court grants their application.

Previously, the Immigration Department had sent home more than 1,000 Myanmar nationals on three Myanmar navy ships from the Lumut naval base in Perak. This was carried out despite a court order barring them from doing so.

There are still 114 Myanmar nationals held in detention centres here. The courts had extended an injunction barring the government from repatriating them, pending the disposal of the legal challenge by both non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

The groups’ lawyer, New Sin Yew, said High Court judge Ahmad Kamal Md Shahid will hear their discovery application on June 22.

Asylum and Amnesty had filed the challenge to quash the government’s decision to send back the 1,000 Myanmar nationals to their country.

They claimed some of those supposed to be deported held cards issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and were minors.

They added deporting those holding such UNHCR cards to Myanmar would only endanger their lives.

“The government’s actions also went against Malaysia’s obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child treaty. The children in the group would be separated from their parents,” the groups said.

The court had earlier this month allowed both rights groups to proceed with their legal challenge against the government.