The Edge Media Group has filed an application to seek a judicial review of the Home Ministry's decision to suspend two of its publications.
In a brief media statement, the Edge Media Group said the application was filed with the Kuala Lumpur High Court today through its lawyer Raja, Darryl & Loh.
"We have also requested that the application be heard on an urgent basis. We are unable to provide a copy of the affidavit of our application until the case is heard.
"Given the urgency and public interest, we hope the court will grant us a date very soon," read the statement.
Last Friday, the Home Ministry imposed a three-month suspension, which took effect today, on the publishing permit of The Edge Weekly and The Edge Financial Daily .
The ministry claimed that the publications' reporting of 1MDB were "prejudicial or likely to be prejudicial to public order, security or likely to alarm public opinion or is likely to be prejudicial to public and national interest".
Expressing disappointment over the suspension, The Edge Media Group publisher and CEO Ho Kay Tat ( photo ) said: "We don't see how exposing the scam to cheat the people of Malaysia of billions of ringgit can be construed as being detrimental to public and national interest."
"This is nothing more than a move to shut us down in order to shut us up," he added.
Ho and The Edge Media Group owner Tong Kooi Ong also being probed under Section 124 of the Penal Code for alleged activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy.
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