The High Court in Kuala Lumpur today set Nov 19 to mention a case involving former Internal Security Act (ISA) detainee Yazid Sufaat and cafeteria assistant Muhammad Hilmi Hasim for allegedly promoting terrorism in Syria.

Judge Mohd Azman Husin set the date when the case came up for mention before him.

Earlier, deputy public prosecutor Mohd Farizul Hassan Bakri informed the court that the Federal Court had yet to set the date to hear Yazid and Muhammad Hilmi's appeal against a decision by the Court of Appeal in allowing the prosecution’s appeal to set aside their acquittal.

On May 20, Yazid, Muhammad Hilmi and another person were acquitted and discharged by the High Court in Kuala Lumpur with respectively promoting and abetting terrorist activities in Syria.

The prosecution appealed against the decision and on June 18, the Court of Appeal allowed their appeal.

A three-member panel, comprising Justices Abu Samah Nordin, Azahar Mohamed and Mohd Zawawi Salleh also ordered the case to be remitted back to the High Court to be heard before another judge.

Lawyer New Sin Yew, representing Yazid, 49, and Muhammad Hilmi, 33, when met by reporters, said that they had filed the notice of appeal at the Federal Court last June 21.

Last February, Yazid, a cafeteria operator at the Jalan Duta Court Complex, was charged with promoting violence to intimidate the public in Syria to carry out terrorist activities, while Muhamamd Hilmi and a housewife, Halimah Hussein, were charged with abetting him.

They were charged with committing the offence at a house at Taman Bukit Ampang between Aug 1 and Oct 20 last year.

Yazid was charged under Section 130G (a) of the Penal Code, which carries a life sentence and liable to fine, upon conviction, while Muhammad Hilmi and Halimah were charged under Section 109 of the same law, which carries a maximum imprisonment for 30 years and fine, if found guilty.

- Bernama