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Students to hold pro-Jawi protest, and 9 news from yesterday

KINI ROUNDUP | Here are key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

1. The Malaysian Muslim Students Coalition (Gamis) will hold a rally today to defend the teaching of Jawi script and call for Dong Zong to be banned, but police said the rally contravenes the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012.

2. The Malaysian Bar said the police should not have resorted to using a court injunction to stop Dong Zong’s Chinese Organisations Congress, but simply manage the situation so that opposing groups can hold their activities peacefully.

3. Umno supreme council member Lokman Noor Adam threatened to sue Attorney-General Tommy Thomas for allegedly refusing to prosecute the two men seen in the sex video that implicated Economic Affairs Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali, while MCA asked police to release details of expert analysis of the tape.

4. Over 180,000 undocumented migrants have been deported under the "Back for Good" amnesty programme, amid the flood of last-minute applications at immigration offices.

5. The Chinese Embassy in Malaysia decried an 18-day jail sentence against four of its citizens after they supposedly stumbled through an airport transit without undergoing immigration checks.

6. The government needs another year to introduce new laws that would allow housewives to contribute to a new social security scheme.

7. The AFP reported that Iran’s revolutionary guard had arrested 16 Malaysian sailors on suspicion of fuel smuggling, but Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah said the detainees are unlikely to be Malaysians.

8. Malaysiakini asked readers to rate the performances of ministers, and only 10 out of 28 ministers received an approval rating above 50 percent.

9. The Kuala Lumpur High Court ruled that Asian International Arbitration Centre former director N Sundra Rajoo was entitled to legal immunity while holding his office.

10. Tanjung Malim Bersatu Armada chief Luth Ishak has died in a road accident after the vehicle he was travelling in was believed to have been hit by a lorry.

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