The Court of Appeal has dismissed the attempts of businessperson Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak and two others to obtain an ad interim injunction against MalaysiaNow and its editor Abdar Rahman Koya in an ongoing defamation suit.

The defendants’ lawyer Rajesh Nagarajan confirmed to Malaysiakini that the appellate court’s panel, chaired by judge Hashim Hamzah, dismissed the plaintiffs’ application this morning.

The application was filed...