Najib to seek update on royal pardon bid

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A letter requesting an update on former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s application for a royal pardon will be sent to the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) on Saturday (Dec 2), according to his lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/f4su68rb  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 Former Prime Minister Datuk Sri Najib Razak's lawyer will be sending another letter to the

00:07 authorities on Saturday to request for an update on his application for a royal pardon.

00:13 In a podcast by former Cabinet Minister Khairi Jamaluddin and Shahrul Hamdan, lawyer Tan

00:19 Sri Muhammad Shafi Abdullah said they will ask for the matter to be remitted to the king

00:24 for his consideration.

00:26 Shafi said the letter will not be like any normal letter asking for pardon, but it will

00:31 state the reason that Najib was not given the right to be fairly tried in the federal

00:35 court.

00:36 Najib filed a royal pardon application in September last year.

00:40 He then requested for an update on the royal pardon earlier this year.

00:44 Shafi also dismissed allegations that Najib is not in a real prison, saying that due to

00:49 security issues, Najib is being isolated from other prisoners.

00:53 He said Najib is doing his Ph.D. studies and his assistant would bring him reading materials.

00:58 Najib is serving his 12-year jail term after his conviction in the SRC international corruption

01:04 case was upheld by the federal court in August last year.

01:08 Najib is currently serving his 12-year jail term.

01:09 He is being held in a solitary confinement facility in the U.S.

01:10 He is being held in a solitary confinement facility in the U.S.

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