PUTRAJAYA: A journalist failed in her appeal to set aside a subpoena issued to her to testify in the trial of two men facing charges of involvement in activities which promoted terrorism.
This followed a decision of the Court of Appeal here today to reject S. Tarshini’s appeal and uphold the High Court’s dismissal of her bid to be released from testifying in the trial of Yazid Sufaat and Muhammad Hilmi Hasim.
A three-man bench chaired by Justice Datuk Wira Mohtarudin Baki ruled there was no merit in her appeal and there was no reason to disturb the findings of the High Court judge.
He said Tarshini’s evidence was relevant to the charge faced by Yazid and the matter being a national security case overrode the rule of confidentiality.
Tarshini, a journalist with The Star, had applied at the High Court to set aside the subpoena issued to her to testify in that trial and also expunge her testimony which she had provided where she was asked to reveal her source in her news report headlined, ‘Ex-militant: We send new recruits straight to the frontlines’.-Bernama