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The question is whether this was tabled at the Pardons Board meeting. Or was it an afterthought? If it was an addendum, and which was only introduced or emerged after that meeting that approved the remission of sentence, then it would be irregular.
Which may explain the most recent statement from Istana Negara which restates that all matters of pardon should be presented to the Pardons Board. It may hint at the earlier irregularity.
Also, the question of ultra vires arises. Does the power of pardon include the power to decree where the sentence is to be carried out?
We must not be swayed by the term ‘royal decree’. It can be, and has been, abused politically to influence the masses. What may be cultural may not necessarily be constitutional. We live in a constitutional monarchy. A so-called ‘royal decree’ still has to be tested alongside the provisions of the Federal Constitution.
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"Let me be very blunt about this. Matters related to Islam in this country have deteriorated into an endless political contest of "who is more Islamic than the other", waged between those in government now and the opposition. Both use Islam in a cynical contest for the Malay Muslim vote, and in the process victimise ordinary Muslims like Affendi."
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