00:00The High Court on Thursday ordered Dr. Kamarul Zaman Yusof to pay RM400,000 in damages to
00:08Segambut MP Hannah Yeo, who won a defamation suit against the UUM lecturer in May.
00:14The ruling follows Judicial Commissioner Avinder Singh Gill's decision to dismiss Kamarul
00:20Zaman's application to delay the damages payment, finding that no special circumstances
00:25warranted a suspension.
00:27Ruth Yeo and Kamarul Zaman were not present in court.
00:30Dr. Kamarul telah memfailkan satu permohonan untuk menggantung pelaksanaan, tidak dibenarkan
00:36hari ini.
00:37Permohonan itu telah pun ditolak dengan kos banyak RM2,500 hari ini.
00:45Ada alasan ringkas tak puan?
00:48Mahkamah tidak memberikan alasan, cuma menyatakan tidak ada sebarang special circumstances,
00:56tak ada unistimewal.
00:58So with the decisions today, he has to pay?
01:01He has to pay or we proceed with the execution proceedings against him?
01:05Execution proceedings?
01:06Yes.
01:07Bankruptcy is one of them.
01:08So if he is unhappy about that simple answer for him is to pay up.
01:12So as soon as possible, he has to pay?
01:14Yes.
01:15He should have paid a long time ago.
01:16Okay.
01:17Kamarul Zaman's lawyer, Muhammad Khairul Azam Abdul Aziz, pointed out that there was
01:23a late payment interest rate.
01:25The defamation suit, filed in 2022, stemmed from two Facebook posts by Kamarul Zaman, alleging
01:47that Hannah had an agenda to convert others to Christianity and used her political platform
01:53to promote the religion.
01:55Kamarul Zaman also cited Hannah's autobiography, Becoming Hannah, a personal journey as evidence
02:01of the alleged agenda, claiming she intended to turn Malaysia into a Christian nation.
02:06Kamarul Zaman is a part of the
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