Federal Court sets Aug 21 to hear SIS Forum’s leave application to appeal
PUTRAJAYA, May 31 — The Federal Court will hear on August 21 an application by the woman’s rights group SIS Forum for leave to appeal in a bid to quash a fatwa issued by the Selangor religious authorities that labelled the group as deviant from the teachings of Islam.
On March 14 this year, the Court of Appeal, in a 2-1 majority decision, dismissed the appeal brought by SIS Forum and one of its co-founders, Zainah Mahfoozah Anwar, to quash the fatwa. SIS Forum and Zainah appealed to the Court of Appeal after failing in their bid to quash the fatwa at the High Court, which dismissed their judicial review application on August 27, 2019.
The fatwa, gazetted by the Selangor State government on July 31, 2014, had declared that SIS Forum, any individual, as well as groups that adopted the deviant ideologies of liberalism and pluralism, were deviating from the teachings of Islam.
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