00:00The federal court has dismissed the habeas corpus appeal filed by GISB Holdings, CEO Nasiruddin
00:12Muhammad Ali, and his wife, Azura Mad Yusof. The two had filed an appeal challenging their
00:18detention under the Security Offenses Special Measures Act, 2012, or SOSMA.
00:25The three-judge panel, chaired by Chief Justice Ton Tenku Maimun Tuan Mat, decided on Thursday
00:32that the application by Nasiruddin and Azura lacked merit. In the unanimous decision, she
00:39and Justices Datuk Abubakar Jais and Datuk Vazir Alamidin Mira said the court rejected their
00:45appeal and upheld the decision of the High Court. Previously, on January 14, the Johor Bahru High
00:52Court dismissed the couple's habeas corpus application. Judge Datuk Abubakar Katar stated
01:01that when the notice of motion for the habeas corpus application was filed on October 24 last
01:07year, the applicants were not under SOSMA detention. He stated that the applicants were under a
01:13valid detention warrant issued by the Selayang Sessions Court, where they had been charged
01:18with being members of an organized criminal group, along with 22 others.
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