Cartoonist Zunar has filed an application at the Federal Court to challenge a travel ban first imposed on him by the government in Oct 2016.

Zunar, the pen name of Zulkiflee SM Anwar Ulhaque, filed his application yesterday through law firm Daim and Gamany.

“(This is) in order to challenge the constitutionality of Section 59 and Section 59A of the Immigration Act 1959/1963,” said his lawyer Latheefa Koya in a statement...