'Edge' set to resume publication as court revokes suspension
In judicial review, judge cites illegality and lack of procedural fairness in ordering publications' suspension
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CITING illegality and the lack of procedural fairness, a Malaysian High Court has revoked the Home Ministry's three-month permit suspension on two publications of the Edge Media Group, which had been at the forefront of reporting on scandal-ridden state-owned 1MDB.
In a judicial review, Judge Asmabi Mohamad on Monday ruled that Home Minister Zahid Hamidi had acted beyond the powers granted under Section 7(1) of the Printing Presses Publication Act - the provision that grants the minister power to prohibit a publication by gazette, but observed no such gazette had been made against the Edge Weekly and the Edge Financial Daily.
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