00:00 The High Court has denied a 26-year-old woman's application to initiate judicial review proceedings
00:07 in an attempt to renounce Islam.
00:11 Justice Ahmad Kamal Shahid denied the application on grounds that the civil courts have no powers
00:16 to hear renunciation matters.
00:19 The judge said only Sharia courts have jurisdiction to hear matters on renunciation.
00:25 The woman had filed the application on April 20, naming the Federal Territory's Mualaf
00:30 Registra, its Islamic Religious Council and the government as respondents.
00:36 She had sought a declaration that the Mualaf Registra has jurisdiction under the Administration
00:40 of Islamic Law Act 1993 to declare that a person is no longer a Muslim.
00:47 In her supporting affidavit, the woman said she had, on August 18, 2017, converted to
00:53 Islam and registered as a Mualaf with the intention of marrying a Malay Muslim man,
00:58 but that the relationship had ended without marriage.
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