PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has ruled that a travel ban imposed on former Bersih 2.0 chairman Maria Chin Abdullah in 2016 by the Immigration Department on claims that she had disparaged the government was unlawful.
In a unanimous decision by a seven-man bench chaired by Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, the court said there was no law in place to allow the respondents (Immigration director-general and Home Minister) to impose the travel ban on the appellant (Maria).
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