Former Prime Minister Najib Razak has been granted a conditional pardon, allowing him to serve the remainder of his SRC International sentence under ‘house arrest’, subject to a RM50m payment and other conditions.
So what does this decision mean for Malaysian politics and the criminal justice system, and how should the public understand what happens next to Najib?
Astro Awani’s Melisa Idris speaks with Ibrahim Suffian, the programmes director of Merdeka Center, and senior criminal lawyer N Sivananthan, who is the first Malaysian lawyer admitted to the list of counsel at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
Source: Astro Awani / YouTube
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