Court rejects Malaysiakini's final bid to overturn contempt conviction, RM500,000 fine over readers' comments


PUTRAJAYA: A seven-member panel of the Federal Court dismissed a review application by Malaysiakini to overturn a Federal Court’s decision which found the online news portal guilty for contempt over comments by its readers.

The panel, led by Justice Puan Sri Zaleha Yusof, held that the arguments raised in Tuesday (March 29)'s review proceedings by Malaysiakini's counsel Datuk Malik Imtiaz Sarwar had been raised in the committal proceedings before the previous Federal Court panel.

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