Rights groups also urged the public to refrain from disseminating hate or issuing threats aimed at Nik Elin Zurina Nik Abdul Rashid.
Last week, the Federal Court heard a petition from Kelantan-born lawyer Nik Elin Zurina Nik Abdul Rashid and her daughter to declare several shariah criminal offences enacted by the Kelantan assembly as unconstitutional.
They urged the parties to stop the threats, saying it is a crime punishable with up to seven years’ jail or a fine, or both, if convicted. “We call upon the authorities to take action against the perpetrators responsible for these threats.” Nik Elin and her daughter, Tengku Yasmin Nastasha Tengku Abdul Rahman, filed a constitutional challenge regarding the 20 provisions contained in the Kelantan Shariah Criminal Code Enactment 2019, which they claimed were invalid as there were federal laws covering the same offences.
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