மலேசியா: இந்துவாக மதம் மாறிய நஜீரா பார்வின்லி மொஹம்மது ஜலாலி விடுதலை

மலேசியாவில் மகேந்திரன் என்ற இந்துவை திருமணம் செய்துகொண்டு இந்துவாக மதம் மாறிய நஜீரா பார்வின்லி மொஹம்மது ஜலாலி அவர்களை மலேசிய அரசாங்கம் ரெய்டு நடத்தி கைது செய்து சிறை வைத்தது. அவர் மீது வழக்கும் போடாமல், டிடன்ஷன் ஆர்டரும் கொடுக்காமல் கைது செய்து கணவரும் அணுக முடியாத வகையில் தனிச்சிறை வைத்தது.

கிர்பால் சிங் என்ற புகழ்பெற்ற வக்கீலை மகேந்திரன் அணுகி தன் மனைவிக்காக வாதாடும்படி கேட்டுக்கொண்டார். அவரை கைது செய்ய டிடன்ஷன் ஆர்டர் கொடுக்கப்படவில்லை என்பதை வைத்து வாதாடினார். அதனால், நஜீரா பார்வின்லி மொஹம்மது ஜலாலி விடுதலை செய்யப்பட்டார்.

நான்கு மாதமாக சிறையில் வைத்து துன்புறுத்தினாலும் மீண்டும் இஸ்லாமுக்கு போகமாட்டேன் என்று பிடிவாதமாக இருந்த இவரை பாராட்டவே வேண்டும்

வாழ்க வளமுடன்.

Woman released in Hindu marriage case
11 Aug, 2007, 1341 hrs IST, AGENCIES



KUALA LUMPUR: Islamic authorities in Malaysia have freed a Muslim woman after detaining her for four months for marrying a Hindu, the couple's lawyer said on Saturday.

The Selangor state Islamic authorities have, however, ordered the 25-year-old ethnic Indian woman to live separately from her husband, arguing that her year-old marriage was illegal under Islam. In Malaysia, Muslims cannot marry non-Muslims.

Her case is the latest strain in the social fabric of the multiracial nation, where many non-Muslims believe the authorities and the courts are allowing their rights to be trampled by the Muslim majority. "Her husband's family rang us up to say she has been released about three weeks ago," said Karpal Singh who had argued in the past that Najeera Farvinli Mohamed Jalali's detention was illegal because no detention order was served on her.

Her husband, a 25-year-old truck driver Magendran Sababathy, had hired Karpal to fight for his wife's freedom. Islamic religious police had raided the couple's house in April and arrested her, arguing she was "illegally cohabiting" with a Hindu and for for failing to produce any relevant marriage documents. A prominent rights lawyer questioned the decision to separate Najeera from her husband. "I don't think there's a legal basis for them to do it," Malik Imtiaz Sarwar said.

"I don't know whether they can do that. I don't see where the powers to do so is" "If she is saying she is not a Muslim, the Constitution guarantees her right to say that and nobody can order her to do anything other than that." Officials could not be immediately reached for comment on the woman's release and the order that she stay with her parents.

Just over half of Malaysia's 26 million people are Malays, who are Muslims by definition. Ethnic Chinese and Indians form the sizeable minorities and they practice either Buddhism, Christianity or Hinduism. Last month, a 29-year-old woman said she was mentally tortured by islamic religious police during her six-month detention for renouncing Islam in favour of the Hindu religion.

In May, the country's best-known Christian convert, Lina Joy, lost a battle in Malaysia's highest court to have the word "Islam" removed from her identity card. In delivering judgment in that case, the chief judge said the issue of apostasy was related to Islamic law, and civil courts could not intervene.