So, now it's official.
Bersih 2.0 is legal, judge rules
Remember, Umno was once ruled illegal by a judge. On February 4, 1988, when delivering his judgment, the then High Court Judge, Justice
Datuk Harun Hashim said, "'It is a very hard decision to declare UMNO unlawful. But the law was made by
our Parliament and certainly UMNO was aware [of the Societies Act]
because they were in the majority [in Parliament] at all times [when the
law was made]. Under the 1966 Act, amended five times over the years,
and most recently by Mahathir's government, each of the society's
branches has to register separately with the Registrar...." (Source: Wikipedia).
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