Kuala Lampur, Oct. 18 -- A lawyer said he withdrew as a judge in Universiti Malaya's 2019 Tun Suffian Moot Competition to object to the university's response to a graduate's protest as well as vice-chancellor Datuk Abdul Rahim Hashim alleged racist remarks.

In a Facebook post, Farez Jinnah said he had accepted the invitation to judge the moot competition before this "debacle" began but must now rescind this.

"I cannot in good conscience participate as a returning judge in view of the recent adverse news of the University's management and handling of its students in the wake of comments made by the University's Vice-Chancellor at the recently concluded Malay Congress, which advertised the University as being a co-organiser of that event....