Govt urged to amend Federal Constitution to protect Syariah criminal system (New Straits Times)
KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 200 Syariah advocates and solicitors last night recommended that the Federal Constitution be amended, including parts relating to the states' power to enact their own Syariah criminal law. Muslim Lawyers Association of Malaysia (PPMM) president, Datuk Zainul Rijal Abu Bakar, said that this was due to concerns over possible challenges to the provisions of the existing states' Syariah criminal law. This after a recent Federal Court decision which allowed a declaration sought by a 35-year-old man, that Section 28 of the Syariah Criminal Offenses (Selangor) Enactment 1995, which criminalised unnatural sexual intercourse, was null and void and not in accordance with the Federal Constitution. "Following the ruling, we are concerned that more provisions of the ex...
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