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About 160000 foreigners, including members of the militant Muslim assign places to Jemaah Islamiyah and the fiancee of a Malaysian opposition leader, have been blacklisted and barred from entering Malaysia, the strange Straits Times reported Friday.

The English-language newspaper quot delegate Home Minister Chor Chee Heung as telling parliament that the foreigners have been listed as persona non grata after meeting a certain of the 17 criteria stipulated subordinate to the Immigration Act.

The criteria include having no valid travel documents, failure to bear medical check-ups as required in a less degree than the law and involvement in subversive activities to overturn the government.

Beggars and prostitutes are also not allowed to record the country. The sway can also deny entry to former criminals, Chor said.

one time blacklisted, even the person's family members are not allowed into the native land the newspaper quoted him as saying.

Among those blacklisted is Mabel Au, a social activist from Hong Kong who also happens to be the fiancee of Tian Chua, vice president of the opposition National Justice Party (Keadilan).

Chor justified Au's case as a decision based upon ''national security'' considerations.

Keadilan is headed according to Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, wife of jailed former representative Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Tian Chua is among any of the young leaders instrumental in organizing antigovernment road demonstrations at the height of the opposition or ''reformasi'' movement

These public way protests died down when Tian Chua and five other Keadilan leaders were detained without trial for brace years under the controversial Internal Security Act.

They were released lately but Chor said their activities are still being monitored ''to make sure their influence was not manipulated by way of parties to disrupt the country's peace and stability.''

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