By Clara Chooi
February 13, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, February thirteen Despite today's rejection by the authorities, the High Court request here shows which lawyers for Saudi Arabian blogger Hamza Kashgari had yesterday performed an sequence blocking his repatriation, during least until tomorrow.
In the copy of the order, performed byThe Malaysian Insidervia email this afternoon, the justice systematic which "any act of deportation opposite the person submitting application is suspended until Tuesday 14.2.2012 or until the execution of the final conference of the habeas corpus application, of which the conference date will be determined on 14.2.2012 during 9.30am".
In the sequence of application, Kashgari, 23,(picture)had named the Inspector-General of Police, Immigration Department director-general, home apportion as well as the government of Malaysia as respondents. Former Bar Council president Ragunath Kesavan acted for the blogger in the matter.
Despite this, however, Kashgari was repatriated to Riyadh yesterday as well as was taken in to custody rught away on his arrival last night.
Speaking to reporters today, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein denied the existence of such an sequence as well as suggested which the explain was made up.
"In the Internet there was the justice order... there was no injunction. No justice sequence was given to forestall us from returning him to Saudi.
"If there was the justice order, we would reside by it, though there wasn't, so do not make up stories," he told reporters here.
Hishammuddin pronounced he stood by the decision to repatriate Kashgari despite drawn out criticism from international rights groups.
"I will not compromise. Do not look during Malaysia a! s the pr otected transit... do not think we can come in as well as out of Malaysia," he said, adding which Malaysia was often seen as the protected haven for terrorists as well as individuals longed for by unfamiliar authorities.
"He is the unfamiliar national, he is longed for by his own nation of origin," pronounced the home minister.
According to Saudi Arabia's English dailyArab News,Kashgari will face charges of blasphemy for allegedly scornful Prophet Mohammad on micro-blogging site Twitter.
Blasphemy is the crime punishable by execution under Saudi Arabia's strict interpretation of Islamic syariah law. It is not the capital crime in Malaysia.
Following the outrage his comments had sparked, Kashgari fled his country, though was arrested by police in majority-Muslim Malaysia on Thursday as he transited by Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
Malaysian police have pronounced which any charges brought opposite Kashgari by Saudi Arabia are "an inner Saudi matter."
Malaysia has the tighten affinity with most Middle Eastern nations by their shared religion. But it is also the US ally as well as the leading tellurian voice for moderate Islam, definition which the decision to extradite Kashgari is certain to be controversial.
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