PUTRAJAYA, Sept 24 — A stateless Malaysian-born teen who is seeking citizenship is entitled to said right under the principle of “jus soli” or birthright citizenship, regardless of his biological parent’s origins, his lawyer argued in the Federal Court here today.
Cyrus’ arguments had centred on Part II Section 1, which stipulates that every person born within Malaysia who is “not born a citizen of any country” is a Malaysian citizen by operation of law. Representing the Registrar-General of Births and Deaths, the sole respondent of the lawsuit, senior federal counsel Shamsul Bolhassan, however, argued that Section 1 should be read together with Section 1.
Shamsul then argued there is no way to determine the nationality of the teen’s biological parents as his adoptive parents had “concealed the facts” and provided “false statements” at the time of the teen’s birth and adoption in 2004.
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