Malaysian official claims 1,450 gay people have been ‘cured’.

Malaysian schoolchildren wave national flags during the 60th National Day celebrations at Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur on August 31, 2017. (MOHD RASFAN/AFP/Getty)

A Malaysian official has claimed that 1,450 people have been ‘cured’ of homosexuality under a government rehabilitation programme.

The claim comes from Mohd Izwan Md Yusof, an official in the government’s Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim).