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Zafar was never operating in the shadows. For years he appeared openly at official functions, met prime ministers, ministers and senior officials, including Badawi, Mahathir and Ibrahim. He publicly represented MERHROM under its own name. MERHROM’s advocacy was similarly public. That is how he got to meet these people. It sought meetings with government, spoke to the Malaysian press and engaged officials over refugee policy. Now Malaysia is prosecuting him for managing and representing an “unregistered” organisation. These photographs leave an obvious question - after decades in plain sight, why has MERHROM’s lack of registration suddenly become a criminal matter?