Court maintains suit seeking automatic citizenship for children born overseas

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The Kuala Lumpur High Court has maintained a suit by six Malaysian mothers and rights group Family Frontiers who seek automatic Malaysian citizenship for children born overseas to Malaysian mothers and foreign fathers.The court this morning dismissed an application by the government to strike out the suit initiated by the seven plaintiffs.In dismissing the striking-out bid with no order to cost, judge Akhtar Tahir ruled that the legal action involves an important issue that is not frivolous.The judge noted that the matter involves the issue of discrimination in the country's citzenship laws against Malaysian mothers, which the government needs to give justification during the full hearing of the suit.He set June 30 to hear the originating summons by the seven plaintiffs.The six mothers and Family Frontiers are represented by counsel Gurdial Singh Nijar.Senior federal couns…