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Bersatu's own goal
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Bersatu’s own goal
PN riled up against duo
Sirul freed
Bersatu’s own goal
Bersatu wants anti-hopping provisions in the Federal Constitution amended to plug loopholes that allowed four of its MPs to defect and support Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, without losing their seats.
However, former health minister Khairy Jamaluddin revealed that it was Bersatu's own fault that this loophole exists.
He said that when the anti-hopping law was being drafted, Bersatu had rejected a clause that would have disqualified MPs from going against their party.
This was attested to by PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, who was part of the technical committee that worked on the draft bill.
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PN riled up against duo
Perikatan Nasional is planning a series of demonstrations against a constitutional challenge filed by a mother and daughter duo on Kelantan's syariah criminal laws.
Kelantan-born lawyer Nik Elin Abdul Rashid and her daughter, Tengku Yasmin Natasha Tengku Abdul Rahman, contend that 20 provisions in the state's syariah criminal enactment are invalid as there were already federal laws covering the matter.
The case is being heard by the Federal Court.
PN argues that if the case succeeds, it would impact syariah laws in all states and that Islamic laws were under attack.
However, Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Man - who heads the panel hearing of the case - stressed that the case is unrelated to Islamic doctrine, but merely the interpretation of the Federal Constitution.
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Sirul freed
Former police commando Sirul Azhar Umar, who was convicted for the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu, has been freed from an Australian immigration detention centre.
This was after an Australian High Court ruled on a separate case that immigrants can't be detained indefinitely - leading to around 90 people being released, including Sirul.
He is now staying with his son in Canberra.
Sirul had been convicted together with fellow former police commando Azilah Harun of killing Altantuya in 2009.
The conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal, and Sirul fled the country before the Federal Court upheld their death sentence in 2015.
Australia then refused to deport Sirul back to Malaysia due to a policy against the death penalty.
The mandatory death penalty has since been abolished in Malaysia, although it is unclear if Australia's policy not to deport those who are facing capital punishment still applies.
Previously, Sirul had told Malaysiakini that he 'did what he was told' and was willing to assist in the Altantuya case, if he was given a full pardon.
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