Former DAP vice-chairperson Tunku Abdul Aziz Tunku Ibrahim told the Kuala Lumpur High Court yesterday that he wrote nothing defamatory about Bersatu deputy president Mukhriz Mahathir in two articles from 2016 and 2017.

The contents of his articles were based on his observations and information he obtained from his sources, he said, adding that as a political observer and activist he is occasionally called on to give his views.

"I have also commented on 1MDB and other political issues in the past.

"I deny that what is written in the two articles are defamatory of Mukhriz beyond what is considered natural or innuendo, as there is nothing within that that is defamatory, libellous or likely to result in him facing public scorn,” he said before Justice Nordin Hassan...