PUTRAJAYA: A lawyer has argued that any law that regulates in any way the renouncing or changing of faith by a Muslim is inconsistent with the fundamental right to freedom of religion as enshrined in the Constitution.
In an apostasy case involving four people from Kelantan, counsel Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, who made the submission before a five-man panel made up of Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim, Federal Court judges Justices Mohd Noor Ahmad, P.S. Gill and Rahmah Hussain and Court of Appeal judge Justice Richard Malanjum, said:
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