Lawyers urge immediate release of report on state powers to enact Islamic laws
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- Ten lawyers called on Malaysia’s government to release the full report by a special committee examining state legislative powers over Islamic law.
- They said the report is important to the country’s legal structure, state legislative authority and administration of Islamic law and related institutions.
Ten lawyers have urged the Malaysian government to immediately disclose the full report examining the powers of state legislative assemblies to enact Islamic laws.
The statement concerns the Special Committee to Study the Competence of State Legislative Assemblies in the Enactment of Islamic Laws. The lawyers said the committee’s findings are important to Malaysia’s legal structure, state legislative jurisdiction and the administration of Islamic law and related institutions.
They called for the report to be made public in full.
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