July 25, 2012
Borders seeks stay of all JAWI action
by Aidila Razak@www.malaysiakini.com
Berjaya Books, owner of a Borders sequence is looking a stay of all movement by a Federal Territories Islamic Affairs Department (JAWI) opposite a company as well as a employees, in propinquity to a criminialized book 'Allah, Love as well as Liberty'.
Lawyer Ang Hean Leng said an inter-parte application was filed a week ago as well as a conference has been fixed for next Monday in a Kuala Lumpur High Court prior to Justice Rohana Yusof.
"We have been looking to maintain a status quo so which no serve movement is taken opposite our clients pending a disposal of a judicial review," Ang told reporters today.
This includes a court box opposite book store manager Nik Raina Nik Abdul Aziz who was charged under Section 13(1) Federal Territory Syariah Offences Act for distributing a book during a Borders opening in a Gardens, Mid-Valley Mall, upon May 23.
She is probable to a RM3,000 fine as well as two years' jail or both, upon conviction.
The conference of a box in a Kuala Lumpur Syariah Court has been brought forward from September 19 to August 7.
Berjaya Books, along with a Assistant General Manager (operations as well as merchandising) of Borders Stephen Fung Wye Keong as well as Nik Raina had filed a legal review upon Jun eighteen severe a legality of a movement! opposit e them.
Named as respondents have been JAWI, a Home Affairs Minister as well as a Minister in a Prime Minister's Department in assign of Islamic Affairs.
According to a plaintiffs, JAWI does not have power to anathema a book as management for such movement should be drawn from a Publications as well as Printing Presses Act 1984.
Furthermore, JAWI had carried out a raid as well as seized copies of a book by a Ugandan-born Canadian writer six days prior to a Home Ministry gazetted a ban.
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