The Federal Court has set Feb 27, next year to hear rights group SIS Forum (Malaysia)’s appeal to challenge a fatwa issued by the Selangor religious authorities in 2014 - which had labelled it as deviant from the teachings of Islam.

SIS Forum’s lawyer A Surendra Ananth and lawyer Majdah Muda representing Selangor Islamic Religious Council (Mais) told Bernama the hearing date has been fixed on Feb 27 following a case management before Federal Court deputy registrar Suhaila Haron today...