Unity government will continue defending judiciary independence at all costs - PM Anwar
19 Oct 2023 01:34pm
Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim - Photo by Bernama
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He also rubbished the allegations over disconcerting rumblings’ that the executive arm of the organs of the state is interfering with due process and strong-arming the judiciary.
"There is not one iota of truth in these scurrilous allegations, which are now being repeated ad nauseam in the social media.
"Let me reiterate what I have said before; As Prime Minister, not only have I not encroached upon even a single inch of the sacred terrain of the judiciary, but I shall defend, at all costs, the independence of the judiciary,” he said at the 14th ASEAN Law Association (ALA) General Assembly 2023.
He said there was a time in Malaysia’s history where certain black sheep of the judiciary, working hand in glove with certain powers that be; committed gross transgressions against its very institution and feeding the virulent spread of tyranny and arbitrariness on the other. - MORE TO COME
