Apex court reserves judgment over K'tan syariah code challenge
The Federal Court will decide today whether 18 provisions in the Kelantan Syariah Criminal Code (I) Enactment 2019 were unconstitutional.
The review was filed by lawyer Nik Elin Zurina Nik Abdul Rashid and Tengku Yasmin Nastasha Tengku Abdul Rahman, and the matter was deliberated by a panel of nine judges.
The duo are claiming that the 18 provisions involve offences that are the exclusive realm of federal law.
Live reports from the courtroom and the vicinity of the Palace of Justice follows:
We are going backwards to a primitive means of expressing disagreement. First there is a failure or reluctance to understand the problem in its right context. Second, the heart rules the head. And all those protesting and screaming victims and unfairness by mass hysteria is an acceptable way to defend this and that. With so many malays with degrees and phds we would expect more rational discourse. We are approaching a baboon society where the one who scream the loudest and bare its fangs wins.
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