KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 — The High Court here today fixed four days starting November 6 to hear Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s suit against Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad over...
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 — The High Court here today fixed four days starting November 6 to hear Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s suit against Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad over allegations that Ahmad Zahid used his position to influence the latter to interfere in Ahmad Zahid’s ongoing criminal cases in court.
Lawyer Mior Nor Haidir Suhaimi, representing former prime minister Dr Mahathir, said deputy registrar Nor Afidah Idris set November 6 to 9 for the trial and April 14 for case management before the hearing. “The trial will be heard by Judge Datuk Rozana Ali Yusoff at 10am,” said the counsel after the matter came up for case management via online today.Based on the statement of claim, Ahmad Zahid stated that Dr Mahathir, who was Pejuang chairman, had issued defamatory statements with malicious intent against him at a Pejuang event at Yayasan Kepimpinan Perdana, Putrajaya, on February 23, 2022. The event was held in conjunction with the 15th Johor state election.
A video recording of the defamatory statements was republished live on the same day on Astro AWANI’s YouTube account, which had 1.4 million subscribers and can be accessed via the Internet, he said, adding that on the day the writ of summons and statement of claim were filed, the video had received a total of 23,443 views.
He claimed the video recording was also widely reported through various social media mediums, namely YouTube account of ‘MalaysiaGazette TV’, Facebook profile of ‘Astro AWANI’ and TikTok account of ‘MalaysiaGazette TV’, as well as online news portals such as
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