{"id":2503307,"date":"2025-04-18T05:51:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2503307\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T05:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:51:27","slug":"kj-awarded-rm2-5mil-in-covid-19-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2503307\/","title":{"rendered":"KJ awarded RM2.5mil in Covid-19 defamation case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ZtGP3gzbnY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nKJ awarded RM2.5mil in Covid-19 defamation case<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe High Court ordered Islamic preacher Mohd Rasyiq Mohd Alwi to pay former health minister Khairy Jamaluddin RM2.5 million in damages over defamatory statements made about Covid-19 vaccination during the height of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Datuk Raja Ahmad Mohzanuddin Shah Raja Mohzan also awarded RM50,000 in costs to the former Rembau member of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Khairy initiated legal action in 2022, accusing Rasyiq \u2014 also known as Ustaz Abu Syafiq \u2014 of falsely alleging that he had misled the public regarding his vaccination status.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that such accusations could have compromised the government&#8217;s efforts during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court was scheduled to deliver its ruling on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>However, the court postponed this following the passing of former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah is Khairy\u2019s father-in-law.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/news\/crime-courts\/2025\/04\/1203679\/kj-awarded-rm25mil-covid-19-defamation-case<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n#NST #NSTTV #MalaysiaNews #CrimeNews #CrimeAndCourts #KhairyJamaluddin #DefamationCase #Covid19Vaccination #Covid19 #LegalVictory #PublicHealth #MalaysianPolitics #CourtJudgement  #PublicSafety #LawAndOrder #JusticeServed <\/p>\n<p>visit us at http:\/\/www.nst.com.my<br \/>\nour Facebook http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nstonline<br \/>\nmore news at  http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/NST_Online<br \/>\nInstagram http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nstonline<br \/>\nand also Tiktok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@nstonline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KJ awarded RM2.5mil in Covid-19 defamation case The High Court ordered Islamic preacher Mohd Rasyiq Mohd Alwi <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2503308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[53],"tags":[787466,787465,787464,201,174816,787463,1428],"class_list":{"0":"post-2503307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-beyondtheheadlines","9":"tag-bth","10":"tag-new-straits-times","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nst","13":"tag-nstonline","14":"tag-1428"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/114358121094286469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2503308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}