UUM lecturer fails to delay payment of RM400,000 damages to Hannah Yeoh

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The High Court on Thursday (Aug 28) has ordered Dr Kamarul Zaman Yusoff to pay RM400,000 in damages to Segambut MP Hannah Yeoh, who won a defamation suit against the Universiti Utara Malaysia lecturer in May.  The ruling follows Judicial Commissioner Avinder Singh Gill's decision to dismiss Kamarul Zaman's application to stay the damages payment, finding that no special circumstances warranted a suspension.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/2dv72ymf  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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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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