Wristbands for migrant workers raises memories of Nazism - LFL

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Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) is deeply concerned by the news that the government is now considering having migrant workers wear wristbands purportedly to make it easier to identify them in public.This comes after Senior Minister (Security) Ismail Sabri Yaakob said yesterday that the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration is considering whether migrant workers should be made to wear wristbands to identify them in public, in light of the increase in Covid-19 cases linked to them."This chilling suggestion essentially means that the government is legalising or formalising prejudicial profiling under the pretext of combating Covid-19."Such forced identification marks upon certain segments of the population raises disturbing memories of Nazism," said LFL coordinator Zaid Malek in a statement today.In Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, Jews were…