By Clara Chooi
Feb 13, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 13 Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad forked out currently which it was a government's right to repatriate a longed for Saudi Arabian blogger behind to his home nation notwithstanding a snub sparked by Malaysia's preference to send a man home.
But a former budding minister would not wade further into a controversy, observant he would have to investigate a box carefully prior to responding.
"Those who are incarcerated will be surrendered to their countries.
"That's a government's right, I have nothing to do with it, I'm not a government now... nowadays, you wish to have peace with most countries," Dr Mahathir(picture)told reporters after a Perkim duty this afternoon. The authorities repatriated Hamza Kashgari, 23, behind to Riyadh yesterday notwithstanding opposition from human rights groups here. Kashgari, who faces charges of blasphemy, was taken into control rught away on arrival.
Just prior to his depart from Malaysian shores however, lawyers here had managed to acquire an ex-parte halt sequence from a High Court, barring him from being sent home immediately.
In a copy of a order, performed by The Malaysian Insider via email this afternoon, a justice ordered which "any action of deportation against a applicant is dangling until Tuesday 14.2.2012 or until a completion of a last conference of a habeas corpus application, of which a conference date will be determined on 14.2.2012 during 9.30am".
Speaking to reporters today, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein denied a existence of such an sequence as well as suggested which a explain was done up.
The Umno vice-president pronounced he stood by a preference to repatriate Kashgari notwithstanding widespread critique from general rights ! groups.< /div>
Read More @ Source "I will not compromise. Do not demeanour during Malaysia as a protected transit... do not think you can come in as well as out of Malaysia," he said, adding which Malaysia was mostly seen as a protected haven for terrorists as well as individuals longed for by foreign authorities.
"He is a foreign national, he is longed for by his own nation of origin," pronounced Hishammuddin.
According to Saudi Arabia's English dailyArab News,Kashgari will face charges of heresy for allegedly scornful Prophet Mohammad on micro-blogging site Twitter.
Blasphemy is a crime punishable by execution under Saudi Arabia's despotic interpretation of Islamic syariah law. It is not a capital crime in Malaysia.
Following a snub his comments had sparked, Kashgari fled his country, but was arrested by military in majority-Muslim Malaysia on Thursday as he transited through Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
Malaysia has a close affinity with most Middle Eastern nations through their common religion. But it is also a US fan as well as a heading tellurian voice for assuage Islam, meaning which a preference to extradite Kashgari is certain to be controversial.
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