The council's working group on arbitrary detention committee also commended that there was a decrease in the number of people held under the Internal Security Act (ISA).
The committee spent over a week in the country, inspecting five detention centres, including that in Kamunting centre where ISA detainees are held.
It has recommended that Malaysia repeal or amend four preventive laws, including the ISA, to conform with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The other three are the Emergency Ordinance (Public Order and Prevention of Crime), the Dangerous Drugs (Special Preventive Measures) Act and Restricted Residence Act.
"These laws deny the detainee the right to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, consecrated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other principles of international customary law.
"The fact that the government is inviting us here, indicates its willingness for improvements.
"We will submit the report to the Human Rights Council in March next year, and follow up on the situation in two years' time," said El Hadji Malick Sow who led the five-member group which arrived here on June 7, at the invitation of the Malaysian Government.
He said, a preliminary report was presented to Deputy Home Minister Datuk Lee Chee Leong Friday.
Sow said the group received full cooperation from the Malaysian Government and its relevant agencies, adding that detainees were in good condition.
The decreased number of 15 ISA detainees was also commendable, he said.
The group visited the Kajang, Puncak Borneo and Pengkalan Chepa prisons, and the Kamunting Detention and Simpang Renggam Detention centres.
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In Malaysia, RACE is the ultimate factor determining everything.
They determine who gets scholarships by race;
They decide who gets contracts by race;
They determine who gets promoted by race;
They allocate funds by race;
They decides who holds what positions by race;
They decide where to develop by race;
They even decide to build LRT stations by race!
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