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（本報古晉17日訊）申請改教的司法檢討，於今日在第三高庭處獲得批准，案件將於明年1月15日，在高庭聆訊。

案件申請人為今年40歲的阿茲米莫哈默阿占，他透過蔡光(人旁)親律師向高庭提呈這項申請，欲將自小被父母轉為伊斯蘭教徒的身分，轉回基督徒的身分。

原本砂伊斯蘭宗教局並不制止這項申請，但國民登記局卻表示，這個案件必須帶往伊斯蘭教法庭申請轉換宗教，因此在尋得蔡律師的幫助下，向民事高庭申請司法檢討，並成功在第三高庭獲後批准。

申請人表示，他打從出生起就是比達友族，而父母親也是比達友族，而且信奉基督教。但在1983年，身為軍人的父親，在吉隆坡就職時，被賦予伊斯蘭教徒的身分，之後回到砂州定居。

當時，其全家人轉為伊斯蘭教徒時，他只有8歲，他沒有選擇的權利，唯有跟隨父母親的決定。因此，長大後在自己的意願下，希望能夠恢復他身為基督徒的身分。

據律師向媒體表示，這是砂州第一宗成功獲得司法檢討准證的案件，案件將於明年1月過堂，並決定阿茲米的宗教轉向。

Easier for Muslim converts to leave Islam after High Court verdict, lawyer says

KUCHING, Dec 19 — Muslim converts may find it easier to formally renounce their faith after the High Court here allowed a Sarawakian Muslim leave to file a judicial review to remove the word 「Islam」 from his identity card, his lawyer said today.

Lawyer Chua Kuan Ching, who represented Bidayuh Azmi Mohamad Azam @ Roneey Rebit, was asked if the High Court’s Thursday decision in the landmark case would make it easier for other Muslim converts to remove the word 「Islam」 from their MyKad and to have their Muslim names reverted to their names at birth.

「Definitely, especially for those who were converted when they were minors or those having marriage problems. But they have to go to the court processes,」 Chua told Malay Mail Online.

When talking about marriage problems, the lawyer was referring to non-Muslims who converted to Islam upon marrying a Muslim but wanted to return to Christianity after getting divorced.

Roneey, 40, had filed a judicial review application after the National Registration Department (NRD) refused to remove the word 「Islam」 from his identity card.

He said he is a Christian and wants to have his name recorded only as Roneey Anak Rebit.

The NRD, however, told Roneey to get an order from the Shariah Court, even though he had support letters from the Sarawak Islamic Religious Department (Jais) and Sarawak Islamic Religious Council (Mais).

High Court judge Datuk Yew Jen Kie, in her ruling that granted Roneey leave for judicial review, had said the conversion was not of Roneey’s volition since he was converted to Islam at the age of eight and hence, he could not be considered a Muslim.

In addition, she said the civil court has jurisdiction to hear Roneey’s application for leave for judicial review as there were merits in it.

「His application is not frivolous based on the legal principles in leave application as it involves personal rights of a person for freedom of religion guaranteed under Article 11 of the Federal Constitution,」 the judge had said.

Yew has fixed January 16 next year to hear the application proper.

Roneey’s parents were initially Christians, but they converted to Islam in Sarawak when he was eight years old and he subsequently had to follow his parents』 new faith.

Roneey named JAIS, MAIS, the NRD director general and the Sarawak government as respondents in his suit.

Lawyer Simon Siah, Chua’s partner in Simon Siah, Chua and Chow Advocates, said Roneey was not the first to try to formally renounce Islam.

He said he has tried to help many Muslim converts to get the NRD to release them from Islam, but their applications were rejected on grounds that they must first get an order from the Shariah Court.

「And when they go to the Shariah Court, it says it has no jurisdiction to hear applications for an order,」 he said, adding that even the civil court has previously declared that it did not have jurisdiction to hear such cases.

With such decisions from both the Shariah Court and High Court, he said Muslim converts were confused and had nowhere to turn to.

He said a better way to solve the confusion is through a judicial review at the High Court of the NRD’s decision.

「I am glad the High Court this time around has allowed leave application to hear the judicial review of the NRD’s decision,」 Siah said, referring to Roneey’s case.

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