Members of the United Nations have been urged by Human Rights Watch to scrutinise seriously Malaysia's very recent backslides on its human rights position when the country's record comes up for review in Geneva tomorrow.

In making the call, the international NGO's deputy director for Asia, Phil Robertson, went on to charge Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak with fooling many in the years following Malaysia's first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) session in 2009.