After Home Ministry's attempt to frustrate, ministers laud equal citizenship rights ruling

At least two ministers have hailed the Kuala Lumpur High Court's decision granting equal rights to mothers with foreign spouses to pass on their citizenship to their overseas-born children.

This was despite the Home Ministry, from the onset, trying to block the ruling from ever happening even though there have been many previous complaints that the constitutional provision allowing only fathers to pass on their citizenship to their overseas-born children was discriminatory...