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Former judge Syed Ahmad Idid joins G25
Published:  May 27, 2015 12:25 AM
Updated: May 27, 2015 12:37 AM

Former High Court judge Syed Ahmad Idid Syed Abdullah is among 11 who yesterday joined the group of prominent individuals known as the G25.

Starting with 25 former high ranking civil servants, the group rose to prominence when it published an open letter appealing for rational discourse on Islam last December.

“The list of new members brings the G25 list to a total of 53,” G25 spokesperson Noor Farida Ariffin said in a statement.

Syed Ahmad Idid was the High Court judge who was forced to resign for writing an anonymous letter in 1996 .

In the letter, he exposed that then Chief Justice Eusoff Chin went to a New Zealand holiday with senior lawyer VK Lingam, who appeared before the CJ in court on a number of cases.

It resulted in Syed Ahmad Idid being told to resign when the letter he sent mysteriously found its way into some government departments and then spread to the media.

Others who joined the G25 are:

  • Asiah Abu Samah (former director-general of education);

 

  • Zailah Ismail (former public affairs adviser to the governor of Bank Negara Malaysia);
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  • Mazlan Ahmad (former Kuala Lumpur mayor and director-general of the Public Service Department);
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  • Kamarulzaman Ampon (former University Malaysia Sabah vice-chancellor);
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  • Azimah Rahim (chairperson of the Parent Action Group for Education);
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  • Khalid Yusuff (former dean of the faculty of medicine of UiTM);
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  • Normala Obid (associate professor at Universiti Islam Antarabangsa and member of Lembaga Amanah Kolej Islam board of trustees);
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  • Asma Abdullah (lecturer at Universiti Putra Malaysia business school);
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  • Tunku Munawirah Putra (honorary secretary of the Parent Action Group for Education); and
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  • Ahmad Hassan (founder of Sekolah Sri Garden).
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