Sabah court case
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The Malaysian high court will start hearing in January the case of 27 Filipino armed followers of the late Sultan Jamalul Kiram III involved in a bloody clash with Malaysian forces in Sabah in February.
In a Malaysian news agency report on Friday, the high court of Malaysia allotted 17 days starting January 6 until February next year to hear the case of the Filipinos and three Malaysian nationals for allegedly being involved with “terrorist” groups against Malaysia’s head of state Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
Justice Stephen Chung set the trial on January 6 to 10, 15 to17, 27 to 30 and February 10 to14.
But starting next month, the prosecution and defence will have to file the agreed facts and issues of the case before the court.
The report said the hearing, which will be in open court, will be held at the Sabah Prisons Department in Malaysia. The court could have attended to the case in September 17 in a supposed 11-day trial but the counsel sought more time to go through “voluminous documents and recordings as well as satellite imagery in relation to the case.”
