After Home Ministry's attempt to frustrate, ministers laud equal citizenship rights ruling

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At least two ministers have hailed the Kuala Lumpur High Court's decision granting equal rights to mothers with foreign spouses to pass on their citizenship to their overseas-born children.This was despite the Home Ministry, from the onset, trying to block the ruling from ever happening even though there have been many previous complaints that the constitutional provision allowing only fathers to pass on their citizenship to their overseas-born children was discriminatory.Since a group of mothers filed the constitutional challenge in December last year, the Home Ministry under Hamzah Zainuddin had made various arguments against the legal action.Deputy Home Minister Ismail Mohamed Said had told Parliament that mothers with foreign spouses weren't allowed to pass on their citizenship to their overseas-born children due to national security reasons.In its legal submission…