Press conference videos played in court in Zahid's contempt of court case against Dr M

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Two videos of a press conference were played in the Kuala Lumpur High Court on Wednesday (April 16) in connection with contempt of court proceedings filed by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi against former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Two videos of a press conference were played in the KL High Court on Wednesday

00:04in connection with contempt of court proceedings filed by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi

00:12against former Prime Minister Thun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.

00:17The proceedings are related to Dr. Mahathir's actions in holding a press conference on December 5 last year at the court lobby.

00:24During the briefing, he displayed several copies of documents, including his identity card,

00:30after giving his testimony in his lawsuit against the UMNO president regarding the Kuti issue.

00:36The videos, published by two online news portals, were played before Judicial Commissioner Gan Taichyong.

00:42Following the screening, the judge set May 14 for Dr. Mahathir's counsel to take further instruction from his client,

00:49noting that a committal proceeding is a serious allegation.

00:52On January 7, Ahmad Zahid was granted leave by the High Court to commence contempt proceedings against Dr. Mahathir.

01:00Dr. Mahathir hit back, saying that it was done with bad intention.

01:04In an affidavit he filed on February 3, the non-adgenarian said the committal action was ill-intentioned

01:10to put pressure on him and to give negative perception to the public

01:14that Ahmad Zahid had supposedly proved his case against Dr. Mahathir.

01:19Ahmad Zahid has yet to testify nor been cross-examined by Dr. Mahathir's lawyers.

01:24Dr. Mahathir hit back, saying that it was Holly Jackson.

01:33Dr. Mahathir hit back, saying that it was a great deal of advice for Dr. Mahathir.

01:37Dr. Mahathir was

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