Ambiga Sreenevasan has been in the spotlight since Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown dragged her name into the defamation suit filed by PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang in the UK.

Rewcastle-Brown's defence statement mentioned the former Bar Council chairperson as the source, with regard to an article which suggested PAS received some RM90 million from Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

However, Ambiga said the intense scrutiny she is being subjected to by Hadi's followers and allies in Malaysia was missing the more contentious parts of Rewcastle-Brown's defence statement.

"There are more than two paragraphs (which concern Ambiga) in the defence and counterclaim. There are in total, 36.

"There are serious allegations contained in them. Perhaps that should be the focus," she added in a statement this evening...