SHAH ALAM, 5 Aug: The Kuala Lumpur High Court allowed an application by The Edge to initiate a judicial review to challenge the Minister of Home Affair’s decision to suspend the publication of the newspaper for three months.
High Court Judge Datuk Asmabi Mohamad handed down the decision in chambers in the presence of Senior Federal Counsel Alice Loke, who represented the ministry, and the company’s lawyer Daryl Goon, according to Loke.
Loke also told reporters that the court, however, dismissed an application by the company to lift the suspension of the two publications pending the inter-parte hearing of the application which the court had set for Aug 12.
The publications, The Edge Malaysia and The Edge Financial Daily, were suspended for three months from July 27 over published articles pertaining to the 1Malaysia Development Berhad issue.
Following that, the Coalition for Media Freedom organised a rally in Kuala Lumpur on August 8 to express solidarity with The Edge Media Group as well as two publications that were suspended.
The rally known as “808” started at 11 am at the Central Market and participants then moved towards the Bar Council headquarters.
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