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Pressure on Pardons Board
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Pressure on Pardons Board
Backlash over Pua probe
Taib family drama
Pressure on Pardons Board
There are growing calls for the Pardons Board to disclose the reasons why former premier Najib Abdul Razak's sentence in the SRC International case was reduced.
De facto Federal Territories Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa - who is a member of the board - had said that it was a collective decision.
Meanwhile, Attorney-General Ahmad Terrirudin Mohd Salleh has also been urged to make public his advice to the Pardons Board concerning Najib's sentence.
The attorney-general is a key figure in the Pardons Board and whose written opinion should be considered by the board.
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Backlash over Pua probe
The police's move to probe former DAP lawmaker Tony Pua for sedition over his comments on Najib's sentence reduction has not sat well with Pakatan Harapan veterans.
Former Bangi MP Ong Kian Ming said DAP must take a firm position on the probe.
He reminded the party that Pua was instrumental in exposing the 1MDB scandal against Najib.
Meanwhile, former PKR vice president N Surendran lamented the "shameful" silence from Harapan and DAP lawmakers on the sedition probe against Pua.
Harapan had in the past often been critical of sedition probes, alleging it to be a form of political persecution.
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Taib family drama
A family drama straight out of a telenovela script is developing in Sarawak.
Former Sarawak governor Taib Mahmud was being treated in an ICU when his wife Raghad Kurdi allegedly took him out of the hospital without the doctors' knowledge.
This prompted a doctor and one of Taib's siblings to lodge police reports against her.
Raghad, however, denied that doctors were not aware that she would be discharging her husband.
She had a nurse's note as proof.
Last year, one of Taib's sons Sulaiman Abdul Rahman filed an injunction seeking to prevent shares in a private company from being transferred to Raghad.
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