National Day: King grants early pardon to 13 convicts

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Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdullah Shah has granted an early pardon to 13 convicts in conjunction with the country’s 63rd National Day today. According to Istana Negara's Comptroller of the Royal Household, Ahmad Fadil Shamsuddin, the convicts were serving life sentences handed out by the Kuala Lumpur High Court on Dec 28, 2001, on charges under Section 121 of the Penal Code with waging war or attempting to wage war or abetting to wage war against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong or State Ruler or the Yang di-Pertua Negeri. “The consent by Sultan Abdullah is exercised under Article 42 of the Federal Constitution following advice by the Pardons Board of the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya. “All 13 convicts serving the life sentences since 2001 had appealed for a pardon on their sentences,” he said in a statement today. Ahmad Fadil said Sultan Abdullah, upo…