A news report on the alleged mistreatment and deaths of refugees held in immigration detention centres in Malaysia is "grossly misleading", said Deputy Home Minister Nur Jazlan Mohamed.

"Inmates in detention centres in Europe and Australia suffer more misery. But we are doing continuous improvement (to detention centres in Malaysia)," he told Malaysiakini.

He was responding to an article in The Guardian newspaper, which quoted former detainees recalling the alleged abuse endured in Malaysian detention centres...