KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here on Thursday (Sept 4) ordered a married couple to remove allegedly defamatory social media posts against actor Fattah Amin regarding his divorce from celebrity Fazura.
Lawyer Mohd Faiz Iskandar Hamzah, representing Fattah, whose real name is Abdul Fattah Mohd Amin, said Judge Datuk Anand Ponnudurai allowed his client’s application for an ad-interim injunction to have the couple, Nuraien Adilla Hasha Akhbar and her husband Mohd Hafizzuddin Hamri, take down the posts.
"The court also ordered the defendants, either personally or through their representatives, to refrain from publishing any further statements against the plaintiff, particularly allegations that he committed fraud, until the full disposal of the injunction application,” the lawyer told reporters after the in-chambers proceedings.
The court set Sept 25 for the next case management.
In the statement of claim filed on Aug 26, Fattah, 35, claimed that Nuraien Adilla, 29, who is a social media influencer, and her husband Mohd Hafizzuddin, 29, who is active in forex trading, had posted defamatory statements on their Threads accounts on July 29 and Aug 22.
Fattah claimed that Nuraien Adilla’s statement was published, viewed, shared, and widely disseminated to third parties, including several entertainment portals, which provoked negative reactions from the public towards him.
According to Fattah, the posts implied that he had cheated on Fazura with a woman identified by the initials "SA,” that the alleged affair caused their divorce, and that he was a hypocrite for projecting a public image inconsistent with his alleged behaviour.
"The defendants jointly published these defamatory statements without seeking confirmation from me. Their actions were intended to damage my reputation, discredit me publicly, and embarrass me in both my personal and professional life.
"As a result, I have suffered emotional distress, public humiliation, and irreparable damage to my good name,” he said in the statement of claim.
Fattah is seeking an injunction to restrain the defendants or their agents from issuing, publishing, or distributing any further defamatory statements against him.
He is also seeking an unconditional apology to be published on the defendants’ Threads accounts and any other social media platforms under their control, as well as claiming general, aggravated and exemplary damages totalling RM5mil and other relief deemed appropriate by the court. - Bernama
