Appeals court upholds ruling granting citizenship to six stateless family members


PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal here today upheld a High Court decision granting Malaysian citizenship to six stateless members of the same family spanning three generations.

A three-man bench comprising Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Datuk Azizah Nawawi, Court of Appeal judges Datuk Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali and Datuk Azhahari Kamal Ramli dismissed, without costs, the appeals brought by the Registrar of Births and Deaths, Registrar-General of Births and Deaths, Director-General of National Registration, Home Minister and the Government of Malaysia.

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