He was refuting a claim by mufti Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin that Amri had admitted to the practice at a meeting that the two had.

Amri’s brother-in-law Nor Hafizal Ariffin was also present at the meeting.

Speaking at the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) inquiry into Amri’s disappearance, Hafizal admitted he could not remember much about the meeting.

However, he said he would have remembered if the subject of mut’ah was brought up.

“Mut’ah is interesting. I would have remembered,” he said.

Hafizal, however, said Amri admitted he was a Shia Muslim during the meeting.

The meeting supposedly took place on Oct 22, 2015, a day after Asri joined the raid on Amri’s home by the police and the state’s religious authorities.

Amri was not present during the raid and he had gone with Hafizal to meet Asri at the mufti’s office the next day.

Questioned further, Hafizal admitted that he did not know for sure whether Amri practised mut’ah.

Amri, who co-founded Perlis Hope, has been missing since Nov 24, 2016.

The Suhakam inquiry is also investigating the disappearance of Pastor Joshua Hilmy and his wife, Ruth. The couple were last seen on Nov 30, 2016.

The inquiry had also included the case of Pastor Raymond Koh, who has been missing since February last year after he was abducted by some 10 men in Petaling Jaya.

However, the inquiry could not continue with Koh’s case after a suspect was charged with kidnapping the pastor.

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