Published on: Friday, February 26, 2021
By: Bernama
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PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court here on Thursday declared as unconstitutional a provision in the Selangor syariah law which makes it an offence to engage in unnatural sex.
A nine-member bench led by Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat held that Section 28 of the Syariah Criminal Offences (Selangor) Enactment 1995 relates to matters that fall under the Federal Constitution’s Ninth Schedule Federal list, under Parliament’s power to enact laws.
She said Section 28 contravened the State List in the Ninth Schedule of the Federal Constitution, which stipulated that state legislatures have no power to make law on matters that were included in the Federal List. She said the primary power to enact criminal law lies with Parliament.
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A nine-man bench chaired by Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat (
pic) ruled that Rosliza Ibrahim was never a Muslim.
Rosliza succeeded in making her claims on a balance of probabilities that she was never a Muslim since birth, she said.
The court found that based on evidence, Rosliza was an illegitimate child and her mother was never a Muslim, therefore her father’s religion could not be ascribed to her.This was corroborated by the Religious Authorities’ Letters which stated that they were unable to locate any record of a marriage between the plaintiff’s parents.
“The concurrent categorisation by the courts below (the High Court and the Court of Appeal) of the plaintiff’s case as a renunciation case is not correct in fact and in law.
Published on: Saturday, February 06, 2021
By: Malay Mail
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SELANGOR: Selangor resident Rosliza Ibrahim will now proceed to have the government’s official records amended to show that she is a non-Muslim as declared by the Federal Court, instead of the Muslim status that was previously recorded, her lawyer Aston Paiva confirmed.
Rosliza, now 39, has for years maintained in court that she was born as an illegitimate child to a Buddhist mother and a Muslim father who were not married, and that she is not a Muslim and that laws for Muslims in Selangor do not apply to her.
“She was raised a Buddhist by her mother, she continues to profess Buddhism till this day and wants to continue living her life peacefully as a Buddhist in Malaysia,” Aston said of his client in a press statement.
Friday, 05 Feb 2021 03:10 PM MYT
BY IDA LIM
osliza’s identity card currently states that her religion is Islam with her Muslim father having in 1994 written down her religion as purportedly being Islam when applying for her identity card. Picture by Hari Anggara
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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 5 Selangor resident Rosliza Ibrahim will now proceed to have the government’s official records amended to show that she is a non-Muslim as declared by the Federal Court today, instead of the Muslim status that was previously recorded, her lawyer Aston Paiva confirmed.