Another former immigration detainee in Australia has been re-arrested, making him the sixth ex-prisoner to have broken the law this week after being released last month by a contentious high court ruling.
Australia’s Parliament has passed preventive detention laws that will see those released from immigration detention locked up again if they pose any risk of committing serious offences.
The fate of former police corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, who is currently walking free in Australia, remains up in the air as its government is looking to pass new preventative detention laws by tomorrow.
Sent to the gallows for murder by the Malaysian Federal Court almost a decade ago after exhausting all avenues of appeal, former police corporal Sirul Azhar Umar now walks freely in Australia based on a legal technicality.
Though Sirul chose not to divulge the alleged mastermind of Altantuya's murder, he, nonetheless, dropped a devastating bombshell by revealing to Al-Jazeera that there are still ongoing efforts to influence him in order to protect Najib.
The Court of Appeal has fixed August 20 to hear Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s appeal to recuse judge Datuk Collin Lawrence Sequerah from presiding over the ongoing RM2.27-billion 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) corruption trial
The unity government has never marginalised any opposition-ruled states in the provision of humanitarian aid during disasters, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
