Siti Nuramira Abdullah will not be charged at the Kuala Lumpur Syariah Court today, her legal team said.
In a statement today, they said Siti Nuramira was released on bail by the Federal Territory Islamic Religious Department (Jawi) at 10pm yesterday.
Siti Nuramira’s legal team received a call from a Jawi officer last night to inform them of her release without sureties or bonds.
“Immediately after her release, Siti Nuramira was taken to her aunt’s place in Kelana Jaya, Selangor, but her aunt was reluctant to accept and house Siti Nuramira,” the statement said.
Siti Nuramira was then brought to meet with her lawyer R Sivaraj before being sent to her place of residence in Petaling Jaya.
“We reached her home around midnight, Alex (Alexander Navin Vijayachandran) was surprised, and they both hugged each other,” her legal team said.
Yesterday, it was reported that Siti Nuramira succeeded in raising sufficient funds via crowdfunding to post her bail in her Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court criminal case of causing ill-will via her open-mic routine at the Crackhouse Comedy Club in Taman Tun Dr Ismail.
However, she was arrested right after she had just settled posting bail at the Kuala Lumpur Courts Complex in Jalan Duta.
Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Religious Affairs) Ahmad Marzuk Shaary confirmed on July 15 that Siti Nuramira would be charged separately in the Syariah court for allegedly insulting Islam.
Last Wednesday, Siti Nuramira, 26, and her boyfriend Alexander Navin Vijayachandran, 38, were hauled before separate criminal sessions courts to be charged over her stand-up comedy routine.
Before the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court, she claimed trial for causing enmity and ill-will with the performance.
Previously, a video of a woman, alleged to be Siti Nuramira, who took off her headscarf and baju kurung on stage at a comedy club had gone viral on social media.
Crackhouse Comedy Club said it banned the woman and her partner from the venue immediately after her stand-up performance and proceeded to lodge a police report.
Kuala Lumpur City Hall has since suspended the club’s licence.
The suspension, however, received criticisms from comedians and netizens who believed the club should not be punished for the woman’s action during an open-mic event on the premises.
Malaysiakini is attempting to contact Jawi director Mohd Ajib Ismail for comment on the case. - Mkini
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