Sympathisers of the militant group IS charged with promoting the group might also get their cases dropped. This comes after today's decision by the Attorney-General Tommy Thomas to withdraw charges against suspects linked to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), said a lawyer.

M Hafiz Zainol Abidin, a criminal lawyer who has represented defendants in several terrorism-related cases before, said the charges against his clients were mostly similar to the 12 men who were charged with supporting and promoting LTTE.