Nazri: Govt's plan to appeal citizenship ruling 'medieval thinking'

KiniTV 2021-09-20

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Mohamed Nazri Aziz (BN-Padang Rengas) has urged Putrajaya not to appeal the High Court ruling that struck out the discriminatory treatment of Malaysian mothers with overseas-born children.

He said the constitutional provision, which only grants automatic citizenship to overseas-born children if the father is Malaysian but not if the mother is Malaysian, is clearly a form of gender discrimination and is “medieval thinking”.

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