Hannah Yeoh is seeking to strike out the testimonies of four witnesses backing Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) lecturer Kamarul Zaman Yusoff’s defence against her defamation suit.

The youth and sports minister’s counsel Sangeet Kaur Deo raised the objection before the Kuala Lumpur High Court presiding over the civil action linked to an allegation of an agenda to transform Malaysia into a Christian nation.

The legal dispute centred on Yeoh’s memoir “Becoming Hannah”,...