{"id":88713,"date":"2015-08-15T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T08:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=88713"},"modified":"2015-08-21T16:25:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T08:25:16","slug":"two-student-leaders-suspended-over-illegal-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=88713","title":{"rendered":"Two student leaders suspended over illegal talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong><em><span class=\"s1\">By Izzud deen Redzuan<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">GOMBAK, 14 August 2015: Two student leaders of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) were found guilty yesterday for organising a talk on Goods and Services Tax (GST) recently without approval from the university authorities and were suspended for two semesters with a stern warning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The President of the Students Representative Council (SRC), Hanif Mahpa, and Afiqah Zulkifli acting as the Chairperson of Academic Secretariat and Intellectual of SRC had invited the Secretary-General of Peoples Justice Party (PKR), Rafizi Ramli into campus for a session on the tax issues on 13 May 2015 without the approval of the university.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The other speaker invited for the talk was Lokman Nor Adam, an official of Jabatan Hal Ehwal Khas (JASA) who is also an UMNO Youth Executive Council Member.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The forum was disapproved by the\u00c2\u00a0Chairman of Student Programme Approval Committee (SPAC) IIUM, Tuan Anuzi Nik Him as the\u00c2\u00a0invited speakers\u00c2\u00a0were not recommended by the university.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On 23 June 2015, Hanip and Afiqah received a letter from the Office of the Legal Adviser, IIUM and were charged under the Student Disciplinary Rules following the GST Forum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Following the charges on 30 July 2015, Hanif and Afiqah attended their first hearing on the allegations of organising the event without proper approval from the university.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hanif is a fourth-year student of the Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences (KENMS) while Afiqah is a third-year student of the Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design (KAED).***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Izzud deen Redzuan GOMBAK, 14 August 2015: Two student leaders of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) were found guilty yesterday for organising a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88713"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89823,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88713\/revisions\/89823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}