Ahead of Merdeka, lawyers and activists have renewed calls for the government to abandon its plans to amend a constitutional provision intended to prevent statelessness, saying Putrajaya's slogan of unity and hope cannot be to the exclusion of those in this group. "Our Merdeka celebrations are marred, as the very government which has promised reform is taking active steps which will consign the stateless to a hopeless legal limbo," said a statement signed by lawyers Ambiga Sreenevasan and Latheefa Koya, and activists Hartini Zainudin and Maalini Ramalo.

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