A three-member bench led by Chief Justice Md Raus Sharif today dismissed Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua's leave to appeal against the ban on him from travelling to Yogyakarta, Indonesia, two years ago.
Justice Raus refused to grant leave to three questions posed by Pua's lawyer Gobind Singh Deo on one's right to travel abroad.
"The law (on this issue) is settled in the Loh Wai Kong case. The appeal is dismissed," the judge ruled in the Federal Court.
The case cited here is where Loh sought a ruling from the court that Malaysian citizens are entitled to travel overseas as a fundamental right under Article 5 of the Federal Constitution.
However, in that 1979 case, the Federal Court then ruled that there was no such right.
Pua was on July 22, 2015, barred from travelling to Yogyakarta to attend a conference, after then inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar informed the Immigration Department's director-general, via a letter dated July 15, 2015.
Khalid stated in the latter that the DAP politician was being investigated under Section 124B of the Penal Code on an alleged activity detrimental to parliamentary democracy.
However, Pua, who is also DAP national publicity secretary, was being investigated as a witness, not as a suspect.
The Court of Appeal had last July ruled that no rights are absolute, including the right to travel abroad.
[More to follow]
-Mkini
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