Four Kelantanese lose appeal against apostasy sentence

PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has ruled that the four Kelantanese who were jailed for attempting to renounce Islam were still Muslims when they refused to attend the repentance classes pending an official confirmation of their renunciation by the Syariah Court. 

The four-person bench headed by Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim, who together with Federal Court judges Justices P.S. Gill and Rahmah Hussain and Court of Appeal judge Justice Richard Malanjum, unanimously dismissed the appeal of Mat Yaakub Ismail, Kamariah Ali, Daud Mamat and the late Mohamad Ya against a jail sentence meted out on them for renouncing Islam.