Cops quiz editor over Zaid's ‘heartless judges’ article
Police yesterday questioned Sunday Star editor Esther Ng as part of a sedition investigation against former minister Zaid Ibrahim.
According to The Star Online , Ng was questioned for around 45 minutes at the Dang Wangi district police headquarters from 11am.
She was accompanied by lawyer Amer Hamzah Arshad.
“We have cooperated with the police as much as we can and we will leave it to them to investigate the case,” Amer was quoted as saying by the news portal.
Zaid is being investigated for his article titled ‘My heart goes to you, Indira’ which was published on his blog on Dec 31 and also appeared on The Star .
In the article, Zaid criticised the Court of Appeal's refusal to intervene in the case of M Indira Gandhi, who was trying to reverse the unilateral conversion of her children by her ex-husband to Islam, asking her to go to the syariah courts.
He also described the judges as heartless, raising the ire of Chief Justice Arifin Zakaria.
Zaid was questioned by the police over the article last Tuesday.
Indira's three children were converted by her estranged husband Muhammad Riduan Abdullah @ K Patmanathan in 2009 without her knowledge.
Indira retained custody of her two of her children, who were aged 11 and 12 respectively at that time but claimed Riduan had snatched her 11-month old baby from her.
Riduan subsequently obtained custody of their youngest child from the syariah court.
However, the Ipoh High Court granted Indira full custody of all three of her children in March 2011.
The same court in July 2013 also ruled the children's conversion certificates were null and void.
The decision was overturned by the Court of Appeal, which took the stance that the issue of Islamic conversion can only be determined by the syariah courts.
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