PETALING JAYA: NGOs have questioned the Attorney General's Chambers' (AGC) arguments on its appeal to overturn a lower court ruling that children born overseas to Malaysian mothers married to foreigners are entitled to automatic Malaysian citizenship.
Association of Women Lawyers (AWL) committee member Meera Samanther said that the argument saying that the amendment of Article 8 (2) of the Constitution was impermissible was “going against the essence of equality”.
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