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Pardon waiting period is nonsense, Shafee says at reform forum
Veteran lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah called the waiting period before applying for a pardon “utter nonsense”.
The legislation - especially the Prisons Regulations 1953 - does not provide for such a waiting period, he claimed during a forum on pardons reform.
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