MIC and MCA Welcome Najib's House Arrest; DAP Calls Emergency Meeting After Its Minister's Seat On the Pardons Board Draws Questions
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While MIC and MCA welcomed the outcome without hesitation, DAP faced a harder reckoning: its minister was placed on that same board not by choice, but by constitutional obligation.
From the original report
The Federal Territories Pardons Board granted former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak a conditional pardon on Friday (18 Sep), allowing him to serve the remainder of his corruption sentence under house arrest until 2028.
The decision was sanctioned at the 64th meeting of the Pardons Board, chaired directly by Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Ibrahim, and carried forward by royal decree.
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