Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email wonder how many more people have suffered or lost out due the inconsistencies. and how many more people and their families will suffer before we malaysian get to see some justice?
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What’s Lina Joy’s status?
KUALA LUMPUR: DAP national chairman Karpal Singh has called for the Chief Justice to look seriously into the case of Lina Joy, who converted from Islam to Christianity and is seeking to restate her religious status in her identity card.
“The Federal Court should explain why the case of Lina Joy is taking so long,” he told a press conference at the Parliament lobby here yesterday.
Earlier, Bukit Mertajam MP Chong Eng and Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang highlighted two cases similar to Lina Joy’s at the press conference.
Chong said she and 11 other DAP MPs would send a letter to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to look into the case of Siti Fatimah, 29, who had been separated from her 15-month-old baby.
She said Siti Fatimah was an Indian Muslim who was brought up as a Hindu by her grandmother and had never practised the teachings of Islam.
After she married a Hindu man and gave birth to a baby girl, the Malacca Islamic Department ordered Siti to surrender her baby to the department.
Chong said the baby was with the department while Siti had been sent to the Religious Rehabilitation Centre in Ulu Yam, Selangor, by the Syariah Court for 100 days until April 18.
Lim highlighted the case of 81-year-old Tang Siew Ying in Johor. Tang died on Monday but her family was not allowed to take her body from the Segamat Hospital in Johor.
He said the hospital had claimed that Tang’s identity card showed that she had a Muslim name, which was Tang Siew Ying@Azizah Abdullah.
