Travel ban on Maria Chin made within permissible grounds, Federal Court hears

Maria Chin Abdullah.

PUTRAJAYA (Bernama): The travel ban on Maria Chin Abdullah was imposed within permissible grounds as it involved questions of government policy and national interest, with potential effects on the diplomatic relationship with South Korea, the Federal Court heard on Wednesday (Aug 5).

"The Immigration director-general had deposed that the grounds for the blacklisting was that the appellant had ridiculed the government at different forums and illegal assemblies, ” said Senior Federal Counsel Shamsul Bolhassan, who appeared for the Home Minister and Immigration DG, in his argument to Maria’s lawyer’s Datuk Gurdial Singh Nijar’s submissions in the appeal proceedings.