PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has granted Sisters in Islam (SiS) leave to appeal in its bid to quash a fatwa imposed by the Selangor religious authorities nine years ago.
A three-judge panel chaired by Court of Appeal president Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim gave the women’s rights group the right to pursue a final appeal after two lower courts ruled against it.The apex court panel also comprised Chief Judge of Malaya Zabidin Diah and Justice Nallini Pathmanathan. SiS is seeking to quash a 2014 fatwa by the Selangor Islamic religious council which decreed that the group subscribed to liberalism and religious pluralism and had deviated from the teachings of Islam.
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