Kuala Lampur, Nov. 7 -- Lawyer Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan chided Barisan Nasional (BN) President Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi for his racially charged comments on a recent court decision to acquit a driver over an accident which killed eight teenage cyclists two years ago.

The former Malaysian Bar president told Zahid the law in a respectable country does not heed a person's race or creed and that the facts and the rule of law matters and not who you are.

"I will say to Zahid: Welcome to Malaysia where the rule of law prevails, not race," Ambiga told Malaysiakini.

Zahid had made remarks regarding the case where Magistrate Judge Siti Hajar Ali made the decision that Sam Ke Ting, the driver of the car, was not guilty of reckless driving and rel...