PKR Youth has defended an application by the Attorney-General’s Chambers for a review of a Federal Court ruling that declared Section 9(5) of the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012 unconstitutional.

In a statement, the wing’s Legal and Public Complaints Bureau head Khairul Naim Rafidi said the application cannot be perceived as an effort to restart a prosecution or as government meddling.

“The act of filing a review application under Rule 137 cannot, in and of itself, be...